REGISTRATION IS OPEN for the 2nd Annual Sankofa Sisterhood Writers Retreat: Nourishing the Writer! Nourishing the Soul!

You are invited to join us for a beautiful weekend of writing! We are thrilled to announce that registration is officially OPEN for the 2nd Annual Sankofa Sisterhood Writers Retreat, May 27-30th. This years theme and focus is on NOURISHING THE WRITER! NOURISHING THE SOUL!  It is common to hear women say that they feel…

Searching for Latina, Latinx, Latin@ Narratives! #dearagent

Commit To Your Writing! This year the New York City Latina Writers Group will be celebrating TEN years as an organization and writing community. There is so much I want to say about that, and I will at a later date. I want to formally announce that WENDY ANGULO has been named the NYC Latina…

Day 91: The Reverent Writer! #dearagent #wewrite

Day 18 of Agent Search Dear Agent; I AM THE REVERENT WRITER! Writing has always been part of my spiritual process. Writing is part of my rituals, my healing, and my creativity. Writing has always been about discovery and openness. I write with great care because the subjects are ones I care deeply for. Writing is…

#DearAgent ~ FREE livestream reading

Day 4 For too Long women writers have gone unnoticed. Writers who are women of color have not received the recognition and accolades we deserve. There are incredible writers and stories that have yet to be published. We are inviting literary agents, publishers, and magazine editors to join our international reading. We are inviting writers…

TONIGHT FREE WRTERS WORKSHOP – Via Conference call (email for dial in information) #WFW #writers

No one can teach us how to write!    Writing for me is like breathing...    This is why I write… Writing my memoir was about completing something significant for my daughter and gifting myself my very first published work at age 40. Writing scripts for the documentary Afrolatinos: The Untaught Story was about re-claiming…

#DearAgent ~ Day 3: Writing is Not Taught!

   As writers we are constantly becoming.  Everything that surrounds us informs who we are. We writers often talk about "writers block" as this thing that keeps us from coming to the page.  I feel that what blocks us is that we are consumed. There are so many things that keep us from coming to…

#DearAgent ~ Day 2

Dear Agent, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?  I am working on an incredible story about amazing people and need your help What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you see those words:     WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? What is that thing that you tell yourself is the reason you don't have…

Dear Agent ~ Day 1

#DearAgent, You will receive hundreds, maybe even thousands of solicited and unsolicited requests in the history of your career. You will receive mountains of manuscripts and screenplays that perhaps you may never read. I could go the traditional route of sending you all countless letters that I may or may not get a response to.…

SANKOFA SISTERHOOD WRITERS RETREAT – Update

This morning I am thinking about YOU! I am thinking about WOC, writers, women, artists who may not take their art, their craft, their calling seriously. Women who for whatever reason don't make the time for their art. Women who don't value themselves enough to pay for something that would be so beneficial for them!…

#UNAMUJER talk at the University of Albany LIVE TWITTER CONVERSATION TODAY!

Would love you to join an important conversation on women, success, dreaming, planning as part of my UAlbany talk today at 3:00 pm EST. Hashtag: #UNAMUJER IG/Twitter: @diosadominicana