During one of my meditations I began
praying for women I have met and for women I haven’t met. In that prayer I
asked for you. I asked that women be sent to me who were finally ready to write
something—anything! I started thinking about the many women who will end 2012
feeling like they haven’t accomplished the goals they’ve set for themselves.
Perhaps there are women who will feel that they are too scared to leap, too
afraid to try something new, questioning whether or not they should even write
this story… questioning whether they are good enough…smart enough, skilled
enough… worthy enough…
Take my hand… I am here to show you a
different truth!
This class is
for first time writers, published writers, unpublished writers, poets,
songwriters, screenplay writers, playwrights, and LGBTQ writers—all writers.
This is an opportunity to share space and energy with women from all over the
United States and throughout the world!
2012 has been a
year filled with so many blessings for me around my creativity and art, which
is why I would like to give you a gift!
I am offering
two separate writers workshops:
Part 1: Women
of the World Writing Workshop – FREE WORKSHOP ~ 10/28/12 6pm-8pm
Part 2: Writing
with Intention – Fee: $360.00 ~ 6 classes on Nov. 11, 18, 25 and Dec. 2, 9,
16
The Women Writing the World Writers Workshop is a FREE writing workshop being offered with
the intention of providing a sacred space for women to gather virtually from
all over to write together.
On Sunday,
October 28, 2012 @ 6:00pm – 10:00pm EST
To register
please email me at: Findingyourforce@gmail.com
In your email please include the
following:
Your name:
Email:
State/country:
Once you are registered you will
receive more details.
The Writing With Intention Workshop is a six-session writing intensive. In
this workshop we get down to the business of writing. Here you will receive
writing prompts and exercises to push you further in your writing practice. It
is about Writing with Intention! When we sit down at our computers or in front
of our journals do we set an intention for what it is we would like to explore
in our stories? Do we ask our characters where they would like to take us? In
this workshop we will begin at the beginning exploring our writing styles and
process, discovering and listening to our voice, surrendering and trusting the
process, story structure, re-writes and arriving to completion.
It is about
being clear about what we are here to do… and getting right down to it! It’s
about writing. As 2012 comes to a close I would be honored to support you in
beginning or moving toward that thing you are dying to write. It’s about
setting an INTENTION to move forward no matter what obstacles arise. Nothing
before this moment matters.
Dates: Nov. 11,
18, 25 and Dec. 2, 9, 16
To register for
Writing With Intention register on Paypal:
Refer questions
to: Findingyourforce@gmail.com
PLEASE NOTE: Every
person who registers (for either workshop) will be able to invite one guest to
join you for FREE. I ask you to set an intention and choose someone special that
you know has an untapped gift. Perhaps you would like to give someone this
workshop as a gift for the holidays. Share this experience with someone who
means the world to you.
I am so grateful
to you for your constant love and support of my life mission of providing women
with a sacred space to create.
With love,
Alicia
About the Workshop Facilitator:
ALICIA
ANABEL SANTOS
Alicia
Anabel is a proud New York born writer who is passionate about writing works
that empower and inspire women to find their voices, speak up and demand that
they be respected. She is a Performance Artist, Producer, Playwright, and
Activist, who after reading one too many stories about women she could not
wholly relate to, decided to write her own tales that would honor women
throughout the world.
She
recently published her memoir, Finding Your Force: A Journey to Love and is
currently completing a historical fiction novel titled, The Daughters of the
Revolution. Her one-woman show I WAS BORN was selected as part of the ONE
Festival in 2011, held in NYC. She is the Founder of the New York City Latina
Writers Group. Alicia has spent the past six years facilitating writer’s
workshops.
Alicia
has worked for renowned magazines BusinessWeek, Glamour and Domino, but it was
an article published in Urban Latino Magazine, "Two Cultures Marching to
One Drum," that would change the direction of her life. In 2008, Alicia
joined Creador Pictures as Writer /Co-Producer of its first documentary,
"Afro Latinos: La Historia Que Nunca Nos Contaron / AfroLatinos: The
Untaught Story" WWW.AFROLATINOS.TV, partnering with Renzo Devia, on a
project that will change the way the world sees color and race relations in
Latin America. Alicia lives in Harlem, NYC with her daughter Courtniana. She
works as a freelance writer and activist against sexual and physical abuse
towards women and children. She attended New York University and Rhode Island
College.
Santos
has spoken, performed and held workshops at Stanford University, Yale
University, Brown University, Arizona State University, Johnson & Wales
University, New York University, SUNY Albany, SUNY Plattsburg, SUNY New Paltz,
Bowdoin College, Cornell University, The New School, Pace University, George
Mason University, University of North Carolina (Wilmington), Medgar Evers
College, Columbia University Teachers College, George Washington University,
Haverford College, Five College Pa’Lante Event (Amherst College, UMASS Amherst,
Smith College, Hampshire College, and Mount Holyoke College) the LGBT: Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, Brooklyn Book Fair, Nuyorican
Poets Café and Bowery Poetry Club.
Keynote
address at Syracuse University: Without Limits: A Women’s Movement! (2012)
Conferences:
National Dominican Student Conference (2012, 2011, 2011), Fuerza Latina’s 22nd
Annual National Latino Collegiate Conference,"El Poder De Ahora: The Dawn
of a New Era" (2012)
Voices
of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA), Completed the Fiction Writing Workshop
with Maaza Mengiste, University California, Berkeley (2012)
NYC
Latina Writers Group, Founder & Writing Workshop Facilitator (2006 – present)
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