Event Title: Blogging and Journaling: Tools to Build and Nourish Your Narrative Voice

Date: Thursday April 13

Time: 2:00 - 3:00pm PDT

Location: Online via Zoom. Link will be sent via email to registrants.

We all have stories we crave to share. Have you found your own way to tell them? Author Alaíde Ventura Medina shares approaches to making writing a habit and an embodied praxis. This session offers pathways to see the world from a storyteller's perspective

About the Author

Alaíde Ventura Medina (Xalapa, 1985) is a Mexican anthropologist, writer and editor. She studied Anthropology at the Universidad Veracruzana and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In addition to fiction and essays, she has worked on scripts for TV and advertising for media such as Canal Once and Time Out México. In 2018 Ventura’s debut won the ‘Gran Angular Young Adult Literature Award’ with the novel Como caracol published by Grupo SM. in 2019 her adult fiction debut, Entre los rotos won the ‘Mauricio Achar Award’ and was published by Penguin Random House Mexico

Registration Details

Registration is required. This creative writing event is a service to the public and there is no charge for participating. Dominican University of California is a nonprofit institution. To make a donation to the MFA Scholarship Fund visit our site here.

Contact mfa@dominican.edu with any questions.