Creative Writing Workshop — Memoir Begins with ME: Main Character Energy in CNF
4 Saturdays: August 9, 16, 23, 30, 2025
10 a.m. – 12 p.m. (2 hours) / In-Person, MDC Wolfson Campus
Pay-What-You-Can Pricing: To ensure that these special workshops facilitated by our Emerging Writer Fellows are as accessible as possible to the widest audience possible, we’re putting it into your hands to pay what you can for this workshop. Choose a ticket price, ranging from $25 to $75, based upon what feels right to you.
Memoir is a very ME-forward, ME-focused genre of writing, one that insists we write ourselves into the story of our most emotionally-charged and compelling lived experiences with big, bold Main Character Energy. But what if we are so big and bold that we crowd out everyone and everything else? What if we are wallflowers or shrinking violets huddled in the background of in our own stories?
In this four-week workshop, we will experiment with strategies for right-sizing ourselves in our CNF writing and striking a balance between living large on the page and inviting other people and their perspectives into our work.
Each week we will kickstart craft discussions and in-class responses to generative prompts with brief readings from Esmeralda Santiago, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, Nicole Chung, Lidia Yuknavitch and Alex Marzano-Lesnevich. Participants of all levels are welcome.
Scholarships Available for MDC Students
Miami Book Fair is offering two (2) full-tuition scholarships for MDC students interested in attending the above-listed creative writing workshop. Applicants must be currently-enrolled, (full time or part time) degree-seeking Miami Dade College students with a demonstrated financial need. Deadline to apply is two weeks before the first class.
Click here to apply: https://mdc.formstack.com/forms/mdc_student_scholarship_application
Flint, the Nonfiction Fellow, earned an MFA in writing from the School of Critical Studies at CalArts and is a 2022 Lambda Literary Fellow in Nonfiction. She has published in The Offing, Arts & Letters (Unclassifiable Contest winner) and Staging Social Justice, CutBank, among numerous other publications and anthologies.
