Mining for treasure
The theme of Generations immediately reminds us we are never telling just one story: there are a thousand others implied in even the simplest haiku. The same way shading creates the shape in art, the shadows underneath your story illuminate the path you want the readers to follow. This is especially true when writing about families or generational relationships. Knowing how to use the shadows to create the light is how you put the readers into the dream state you are creating. This is a mixed genre workshop for any level. Bring your notebooks and open hearts.
A Pulitzer Prize finalist, Luis Alberto Urrea is the bestselling author of seventeen books and is member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame. His latest novel, The House of Broken Angels, was named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR, the American Library Association, Newsday, Kirkus Reviews, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature award. His collection of short stories, The Water Museum, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and Into the Beautiful North, his 2009 novel, was selected as a National Endowment of the Arts Big Read and has been chosen by more than fifty cities and colleges as a community read. Urrea’s nonfiction book, The Devil’s Highway: A True Story, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the Kiriyama Prize and won the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. Urrea’s next novel, Goodnight, Irene, will be released May 2023 by Little, Brown.
Learn more: luisurrea.com