Events
Fellowships, Grants & Residencies with T Clark
T Clark will be diving into the world of fellowships, grants, and residencies with us.
There are many opportunities out there for writers to get funding for their projects, but applying to them or even finding them can be difficult for new and seasoned writers alike. During this session, T Clark will teach us how to research and apply for these opportunities.
If you’ve ever wondered about funding or joining a residency but don’t know where to begin, this is the session for you.
About T Clark
T Clark's fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, The Offing, Joyland, and elsewhere. They have received fellowships, residencies, and funding from The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Lambda Literary Foundation, and elsewhere. They write, edit, and live in New Orleans.
Along with teaching adult writing classes, T Clark offers freelance editing and consultation services for short stories, personal essays, coaching, and more. For more information including rates and timelines, visit tia-clark.com, or reach out directly at tiaclark123@gmail.com.
Evoking the Senses: How to Write Food in Your Stories
Sophie Nau is back for another generative food writing workshop.
Great food writing utilizes sensory details to convey touch/smell/sensation/ambience, as well as personal emotion while avoiding cliche. Fiction and food writer Sophie Nau will lead our workshop and teach us how to use food to the fullest in our stories.
Detailed and sensory descriptions will strengthen your prose, and there is an art to writing food. Food is both individual and universal. It can take us home or bring us places we've never visited. Fiction, nonfiction writers, and poets can use this workshop to strengthen their craft.
This is a generative workshop, so you will leave with pieces of writing to expand on or use in your projects.
We will start with reading excerpts from writers who use vivid food imagery in their work.
Then, we will dive into the craft.
Finally, Sophie will guide us through prompts that draw from your personal food memory that you can construct into scenes or vignettes, paying particular attention to the details, emotions, and experiences surrounding food.
Piety & Desire, the heavenly chocolate shop, is generously hosting this event. The setting is sure to inspire some delicious writing.
This event is full.
About Sophie
Sophie is a fiction and food writer born and raised in Los Angeles. She is a contributing writer for Country Roads and Edible Los Angeles, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Time spent baking pastries and pouring wine in restaurants in L.A., New York, and New Orleans has influenced her writing about food culture and women at work. Find her on Substack at Culinaria.
Evoking the Senses: How to Write Food in Your Stories
A generative food writing workshop for fiction and nonfiction writers.
Great food writing utilizes sensory details to convey touch/smell/sensation/ambience, as well as personal emotion while avoiding cliche. Fiction and food writer Sophie Nau will lead our workshop and teach us how to use food to the fullest in our stories.
Fiction and nonfiction writers can use this workshop for whatever project they might be working on: maybe to expand a scene, to think about details like taste and touch, or to dive into place or culture.
This is a generative workshop, so you will leave with pieces of writing to expand on or use in your projects.
We will start with reading excerpts from writers who use vivid food imagery in their work such as MFK Fischer, Jonathan Gold, and Anya von Bremzen.
Then, we will dive into the craft.
Finally, Sophie will guide us through prompts that draw from your personal food memory that you can construct into scenes or vignettes, paying particular attention to the details, emotions, and experiences surrounding food.
Blue Cypress Books is generously hosting us and will provide refreshments on a pay-what-you-can model. This event is FREE and open to all writers.
Sophie Nau is a fiction and food writer from Los Angeles. She is a contributing writer for Country Roads and Edible Los Angeles, and her essay “I Carry My Weight in Groceries” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Her time spent baking pastries and pouring wine in restaurants in L.A., New York, and New Orleans continues to influence her writing and fascination with food culture and women at work. She’s a graduate from NYU and the University of New Orleans.