Our local veteran outreach non-profit Mil-Tree will be holding a free writing workshop this Sunday, February 18th at Furstwurld from 12 PM to 4 PM as part of their expansive Tapestries of Transformation project. The class will be instructed by Z107.7’s own Gabriel Hart, a published author who will use his own hard-earned lessons to pull the best stories from the class’s participants.
For this Sunday’s writing workshop at Furstwurld, Hart will be instructing the transition from memoir to fiction, exploring the freedom inherent in the third person point of view. Hart says, “While each of our lives are unique, when we tell a story exactly how it occurred, it’s often so idiosyncratic and insular that it can feel self-indulgent and alienating to a reader. What I aim to do in this class is to pull the writer outward instead of inward, replacing themselves with characters to communicate feelings through actions, hopefully yielding something more universally relatable than a diary entry.” Hart asks participants to bring a pen, notebook, and their courage to step outside themselves.
Since Mil-Tree is a veteran outreach non-profit, Hart hopes to get as many veterans as possible to participate in this free workshop, but the class is open to all community members as well. To sign up for this free class, visit: https://www.mil-tree.org/events-1/writing-storytelling-workshop-with-gabriel-hart
Gabriel Hart is an author, poet, and journalist from Morongo Valley, CA. His story Crossing Alvarado was nominated for 2022’s Best American Mystery and Suspense. His debut novel On High at Red Tide will be released spring of 2024. Hart has been co-producing the Mojave Noir reading series to benefit Mil-Tree since 2021. His literary journalism has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Lit Reactor, and he will be launching his own literary magazine, Beyond the Last Estate, later this year.
