www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions/writing-the-mother-wound-a-Partnerships
As the founder of the Writing Our Lives Workshop, Vanessa has established partnerships with various literary organizations and online magazines to publish WOL alumni and Mother Wound essays.
Mother's Day 2021: WOL partnered with NYU's Latinx Project Intervenxiones to bring you the Writing the Mother Wound Class. Read the mini anthology here.
Fall 2019 - Spring 2020: WOL partnered with Longreads to bring you the Writing the Mother Wound series. Read the series introduction and the essays here.
Spring 2019: WOL partnered with The Rumpus' Voices on Addiction column to publish personal essays by WOL alumni. Read the essays here.
Fall 2018: WOL partnered with Tin House to publish alumni in their online Flash Fidelity series. Read the essays here.
Craft Talks and Panels:
AWP 2024:
--Bridging the Diaspora: A Bilingual Reading by Letras Boricuas Fellows
--Rewriting Motherhood, Reimagining Essential Labor
All Write Columbia Nonfiction Writing Conference 2022 -- Writing the Ghosts that Haunt Craft Talk
AWP 2020 -- Writing the Mother Wound, A Reading (cancelled due to COVID)
AWP 2020 -- Do Words Heal? Writers on the Power & Difficulty of Writing Pain & Trauma (cancelled)
Slice Literary Writers' Conference 2019 -- Getting Started, When You Just...Can't...Even
AWP 2019 -- Writing the Mother Wound Panel
AWP 2018 -- Destruction and Creation: Addiction, Recovery, and Writing Panel
AWP 2018 -- Race in Contemporary Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
Red Ink Series: Women Writers on Obsession
GrubStreet’s 2018 Muse and the Marketplace Literary Conference - Voice in Nonfiction: What is your voice and how can you reclaim it? (Discussion and Guided Writing)
The Power of Writing Your Story at The Center for Women Writers Salem College, February 2017
AWP 2017 -- Social Media: Breaking Barriers for the Marginalized, the Remote, and the Academic Outsider
Reshaping the Literary Paradigm: Women of Color on Craft, Culture, and Diversity at La Casa Azul Bookstore in honor of Women’s History Month 2015.
New Voices Reading Series Presents: Radical Latinas 2015
Exhibits Curated:
Defying Devastation: Bushwick then and Now (with Meryl Meisler) in Bushwick Open Studios 2013
Defying Devastation: Bushwick in the 80s (with Meryl Meisler) in Bushwick Open Studios 2012
As the founder of the Writing Our Lives Workshop, Vanessa has established partnerships with various literary organizations and online magazines to publish WOL alumni and Mother Wound essays.
Mother's Day 2021: WOL partnered with NYU's Latinx Project Intervenxiones to bring you the Writing the Mother Wound Class. Read the mini anthology here.
Fall 2019 - Spring 2020: WOL partnered with Longreads to bring you the Writing the Mother Wound series. Read the series introduction and the essays here.
Spring 2019: WOL partnered with The Rumpus' Voices on Addiction column to publish personal essays by WOL alumni. Read the essays here.
Fall 2018: WOL partnered with Tin House to publish alumni in their online Flash Fidelity series. Read the essays here.
Craft Talks and Panels:
AWP 2024:
--Bridging the Diaspora: A Bilingual Reading by Letras Boricuas Fellows
--Rewriting Motherhood, Reimagining Essential Labor
All Write Columbia Nonfiction Writing Conference 2022 -- Writing the Ghosts that Haunt Craft Talk
AWP 2020 -- Writing the Mother Wound, A Reading (cancelled due to COVID)
AWP 2020 -- Do Words Heal? Writers on the Power & Difficulty of Writing Pain & Trauma (cancelled)
Slice Literary Writers' Conference 2019 -- Getting Started, When You Just...Can't...Even
AWP 2019 -- Writing the Mother Wound Panel
AWP 2018 -- Destruction and Creation: Addiction, Recovery, and Writing Panel
AWP 2018 -- Race in Contemporary Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
Red Ink Series: Women Writers on Obsession
GrubStreet’s 2018 Muse and the Marketplace Literary Conference - Voice in Nonfiction: What is your voice and how can you reclaim it? (Discussion and Guided Writing)
The Power of Writing Your Story at The Center for Women Writers Salem College, February 2017
AWP 2017 -- Social Media: Breaking Barriers for the Marginalized, the Remote, and the Academic Outsider
Reshaping the Literary Paradigm: Women of Color on Craft, Culture, and Diversity at La Casa Azul Bookstore in honor of Women’s History Month 2015.
New Voices Reading Series Presents: Radical Latinas 2015
Exhibits Curated:
Defying Devastation: Bushwick then and Now (with Meryl Meisler) in Bushwick Open Studios 2013
Defying Devastation: Bushwick in the 80s (with Meryl Meisler) in Bushwick Open Studios 2012