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Writers’ Workshop - Letter Heads

Led by guest author Carribean Fragoza

Join us for a fun evening of writing exercises, brainstorming, and discussion.

Led by professional writers, our monthly, 90-minute workshops provide unique opportunities for you to develop your craft and make connections with other local creatives. Everyone is welcome—no experience necessary. 

This month, 2023 Whiting Award Winner in Fiction, Carribean Fragoza, will introduce us to “Chancla Cartography,” a pedestrian approach to writing that finds subject material in daily environments and interactions. Through a series of exercises, we’ll draw upon personal and collective narratives embedded in familiar landscapes, such as our neighborhoods and homes, and have opportunities to share and discuss what we've created. Come write with us!

Registration is required.

About Carribean Fragoza

Carribean Fragoza is a writer and artist from South El Monte. Her collection of stories Eat the Mouth That Feeds You was published in 2021 by City Lights and was a finalist for a 2022 PEN Award. Her co-edited compilation of essays, East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte was published by Rutgers University Press and her collection of essays Writing Home: New Terrains of California is forthcoming with Angel City Press. She has published in Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times, Zyzzyva, Alta, BOMB, the Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtNews, and Aperture Magazine. She is the Prose Editor at Huizache Magazine, the Creative Nonfiction and Poetry Editor at Boom California, and the founder and co-director of South El Monte Arts Posse, an interdisciplinary arts collective. Fragoza won a Whiting Award for Fiction in March.

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