Writer Yurina Yoshikawa takes us through writing exercises and examples to help us find patterns in our own lives in this workshop style event.
With an introduction by poet Brittany Ackerman, our Pattern event was a beautiful morning of memory, reflection, and working together as we consider the rhythms of our lives. Writer Yurina Yoshikawa has written a lot about her life, and will take us through literary examples and exercises to help us see different patterns available to us as writers and creatives in this part lecture, part workshop-style event. When we consider writing for expression, we must abandon the most familiar patterns of functionality (the five paragraph essay of schooldays) to better share ourselves. By playing with how we find patterns in our chaos and stories, we can find healing, and understanding together. Apologies for some construction noise in this video, and we appreciate your grace.
About the speaker
Yurina Yoshikawa is the Director of Education at The Porch. She holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University, and her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, NPR, Lit Hub, The Japan Times, and elsewhere. She was the winner of the 2020 Tennessee True Stories Contest, a 2021 recipient of the Tennessee Arts Commission, and a 2024 Tennessee State Fellow for the South Arts Prize in Literature. She has lived in Tokyo, Palo Alto, and New York before settling down in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband and two sons. For more information, visit www.yurinayoshikawa.com.
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