C.M. Mayo’s Events & Workshops – C.M. Mayo's Book Notes & Convos

= 2021 =

March 10, 2021, 12 PM, Mexico City
Centro de Estudios de la Historia de México (CEHM)
Virtual lecture by C.M. Mayo about her book, Odisea metafísica hacia la Revolución Mexicana, Francisco I. Madero y su libro secreto, Manual espírita
(in Spanish) When a video is available I will post it here.

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= 2020 =

Saturday, October 17, 2020
Women Writing the West 2020 Conference (Virtual)
8:00-9:0o AM (Colorado Time)
POETIC TECHNIQUES TO POWER UP YOUR FICTION & NARRATIVE NONFICTION
C.M. MAYO

For writers of fiction and narrative nonfiction (whether biography, nature writing, or memoir), award-winning poet and writer C.M. Mayo’s workshop gives you a toolkit of specific poetic techniques you can apply immediately to make your writing more vivid and engaging. Using handouts, first we’ll cover specificity with reference to the senses, a technique, basic as it may be, that many writers tend to underutilize. Then, in supersonic fashion, we’ll zoom over alliteration; use of imagery; repetition; listing; diction drops and spikes; synesthesia; and crucially, how to work with rhythm and sound to reinforce meaning. The goal is for your writing to take an immediate step up.

> Click here for the PDF handout

Tip Jar? No… But you can buy my books!

You can always buy my books here. And by the way, you can now also find some of my longform essays not-yet-in-print on Kindle, among them: “Dispatch from the Sister Republic or, Papelito Habla” and “From Mexico to Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion.”

On a tight budget? It is also possible that you can find some of my books in your local or university library. If not, don’t be shy, ask the librarian to consider ordering it for the library. Guess what, sometimes they do!

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I am well aware of the problematic nature of Amazon’s outsize market power. If you wish to make your book purchases directly from independent bookstores and small publishers, I would celebrate your doing so by your going directly to their webpages.🍀