Our Recipes, Our Stories: A Memoir Writing Workshop

Few things bring us together as universally as food—especially the recipes that have been in our kitchens and families for as long as we can remember. They are a taste of our lived experience and a snapshot of who we are, often carrying with them rich ancestral stories passed down through generations.

In this welcoming workshop, led by Ronit Plank, we will explore these recipes through our memories, our intuition, and by listening to the stories they tell us. Ronit will guide us with thoughtful prompts to help shape and write our own recipe-inspired memoirs. We will memorialize the story around these recipes that can be passed down and shared for generations to come, celebrating food as a love language and a lasting generational connection.

Please bring a recipe that holds personal meaning for you—feel free to bring a few options and choose one during the workshop.

Bio:
Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, and editor whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, Hippocampus, The New York Times, and elsewhere, earning Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her first book is the memoir When She Comes Back, her second the short story collection Home is a Made-Up Place. She’s Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, teaches memoir widely including at the University of Washington’s Continuum Program, and hosts the podcast Let’s Talk Memoir featuring interviews with memoirists about their creative process and writing life. Find her at ronitplank.com, on Let’s Talk Memoir Substack, and across social media @RonitPlank.