with Ines Rodrigues
 
This course explores writing that’s inspired and shaped by travels, displacement, immigration, and their connections to literature. 
 
What’s the meaning of home in your writing? Do places you travel or choose to live have an imprint in your personality and your identity as an artist? 
 
We will learn techniques from writers whose work and identity are shaped by a deep sense of place. We will write stories (memoir or fiction) inspired by the relationship between people, history, and geography. By the end, you'll be able to investigate how your identity as a writer is shaped by places you’ve visited or lived in. 
 
LEVEL:  All Levels
 
Optional:  Want an extra hour of one-on-one attention? Ines will provide written feedback on either part of a manuscript OR a query letter for a total of an extra hour of consultation time. Please choose this option in the drop-down menu when purchasing this workshop. This extra time will be scheduled directly with the instructor.
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WHERE:
Online via Zoom
(link will be sent the week of 1st class)
DATES:
5 Mondays
February 5, 12, off, 26, March 4, 11
TIME:
10am to 11:30am  EST
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LIMITED TO 7 STUDENTS
 
 
About the Instructor:
Ines Rodrigues is a journalist and fiction writer, currently doing her MFA in creative writing and translation at Columbia University, in New York. She has been living in the USA for many years. She published her first novel, Days of Bossa Nova, in 2017, and she's currently writing her second work of fiction. Ines has been an instructor at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College since 2016. She is the former editor of Scarsdale Living Magazine, and also teaches Italian and creative writing at Bronxville Adult School. She is the curator of The Scarsdale Salon, a quarterly literary event in partnership with the Salon de Belleville (Paris, France). Read more about Ines Rodrigues and enjoy her blog at https://www.inesrodriguesauthor.com/