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Name: Using Research to Write the Self with Natalie Lima — An Online Creative Writing Workshop in Partnership with Strathmore
Start: 2025-03-20T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-20T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Zoom Virtual Event

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Using Research to Write the Self with Natalie Lima — An Online Creative Writing Workshop in Partnership with Strathmore

March 20 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT

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A promotional image for a virtual creative writing event featuring author Natalie Lima. The image shows a photo of Natalie Lima standing in front of a grand staircase in a library. The background includes bookshelves and large windows. The left side of the image has icons and text: an open book with a pen labeled "CREATIVE WRITING," a group of people labeled "FOR EVERYONE," and a virtual meeting icon labeled "VIRTUAL." The bottom right corner has the text "in partnership with STRATHMORE."

Creative writing is a tool for knowing yourself, understanding the world, and connecting with other people. Led by author Seema Reza and accomplished guest writers—including poets, memoirists, novelists, and storytellers—these generative community workshops follow the model developed by Community Building Art Works (CBAW) over the course of a decade of bringing people together in military and hospital settings. Each workshop is designed to help participants put their personal stories on paper in a supportive environment.

Whether you’re just starting out or have been writing for years, you are welcome; no experience is required. Bring a pen, a notebook, and an open mind!

Using Research to Write the Self with author Natalie Lima

A promotional poster for a Creative Writing Workshop featuring author Natalie Lima. The event is scheduled for Thursday, March 20, 2025, at 7 PM ET. The workshop is titled "Using Research to Write the Self" and is open to all with no minimum cost. The poster includes the logos of Community Building Art Works (CBAW) and Strathmore, indicating their partnership. Registration details are provided with the URL: cbaw.org/events.

Author Photo by Jennifer Delgadillo

About This Workshop
Are you working on personal narrative and interested in bringing in something extra, what the industry calls memoir plus? In this workshop, we’ll consider different approaches for bringing in the “plus” (research, history, science, criticism, educational content, etc.) into our personal story and what that means in today’s ever-changing creative nonfiction/memoir landscape. We’ll take a look and discuss current nonfiction and use writing prompts in this 90-min session.

Natalie Lima received her MFA in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Arizona. She’s received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers, PEN America Emerging Voices, the VONA/Voices Workshop, Letras Boricuas/the Mellon Foundation, Tin House, and Hedgebrook Writers. Lima is an Assistant Professor of English at Butler University. Find Natalie on Facebook, Instagram and X, and check out her forthcoming essay in the anthology, WITCH (DOPAMINE/Semiotext(e), 2025.)

This workshop will be recorded and a link to the recorded version is available for registered participants only, upon request. The recorded version is edited for participant privacy and focuses on the instructor’s lessons. Our partners at Strathmore want these workshops to be as accessible as possible, so they are priced as “pay what you can.” You will be prompted to enter an amount of your choice when you register. (If you are registering for free, please enter $0.) If you are able to pay for these workshops, every dollar goes to support Strathmore’s education programs.

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