Workshop leader: Carolina Murriel

In this generative workshop, award-winning journalist and essayist Carolina Murriel shares her signature approach to structuring a memoiristic personal essay, centered on one extended scene from your life.

Bring a central memory, come ready to zoom into the details, and leave with a solid outline or draft.

This event is free and open to the community. No RSVP required.

About Carolina Murriel

Carolina Muriel is an artist, journalist and death doula. She covered immigration, music, art, food and drink for years, and now spends her time writing, teaching, and playing with clay. Carolina is a Tin House and Macondo Writing Workshop scholar, and her creative nonfiction won Prairie Schooner's Jane Geske Award. Her work is in NPR, Audible, California Sunday Magazine, the Undocupoets anthology Here to Stay, and more. She co-founded Pizza Shark, a podcast studio working toward radical inclusivity in media through trauma-informed storytelling. They've won Webbys, iHeartRadio Podcast Awards, and nominations for Peabody Awards, Ambies and more.