Non-Fiction Zoom Workshop for Busy People
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Thanks for your interest in this month long Zoom workshop.
Last year, I had a month long book club on Zoom. We were all busy people. We read the pages of the book and as much as we loved the book and enjoyed each other, realistically, we could only meet for about 30 minutes. We all had things to do. We discovered how much we could get done in those 30 minutes! We discussed the themes of the book, went into a deeper close read, read passages aloud to each other and got to know each other in those 30 minutes.
I thought how great it would be to have a Non-Fiction Workshop that accomplished much in a short amount of time.
This workshop will meet for an hour instead of 30 minutes.
Details:
+ Wednesdays in February 4-5pm PST
+Cost $125 (Paid via Venmo)
+ Limit 8 participants
+Participant will turn in up to 2500 words by Jan 29.
+Each week will open with a generative prompt or craft talk. Followed by workshopping two of the pieces each week. I will let you know which ones they are so that each participant will have read it and made notes for the writer.
+Each participant will receive notes from me on their work.
+Access to Google Drive with recommended reading to improve your craft.
+This workshop will help to expand your writing network. My goal is to connect you with like-minded writers with whom you can encourage, uplift and share work even after the class ends.
+Class Starts Feb 5!
Shemaiah Gonzalez is a writer with degrees in English Literature (BA) , Intercultural Ministry (MAPS) and Creative Non-Fiction Writing (MFA). She thrives in moments where storytelling, art, literature, and faith collide. Her work has appeared in America Magazine, Image Journal’s Good Letters, Ekstasis, The Curator, and Loyola Press, among others. A Los Angeles native, she now lives in Seattle with her husband and their two teen sons.
In 2018 her story about her college English professor was selected by Pope Francis to be included in his book Sharing The Wisdom of Time.
Nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize for her flash non-fiction essay, Dios Mio in Whale Road Review.
In 2020 joined Whale Road Review as a CNF peer reviewer.
In 2021 served as a contributing editor for prose for The Curator Magazine.
Awarded an Honorable Mention Catholic Press Award in for Best Spiritual Life Column in 2021 for her Northwest Catholic God in the Ordinary.
Presented at 2022 Catholic Imagination Conference on her biography on beloved NW Catholic writer, Brian Doyle.
Awarded Third Place Catholic Media Award for Best Regular Column-Spiritual Life in 2023 for her Northwest Catholic God in the Ordinary column.
Keynote “May We Never Lose Our Sense of Wonder” at the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature at the University of Dallas November 2024.
My book Undaunted Joy: The Revolutionary Act of Cultivating Delight, a collection of essays will be published with Zondervan/Harper Collins April 2025.
https://www.shemaiahgonzalez.com/