Sultan

IN PERSON: How to Write a Family Portrait

When

September 9, 2025
3:00 pm

Where

Sultan Library
319 Main St #100 Sultan, WA 98294

Attend In-Person

No tickets or registration required

Host

Sno-Isle Libraries - Sultan Library

Tell the stories that have preoccupied, amused, and defined your family for generations.

In this hour-long generative writing workshop, essayist Kristen Millares Young will use guided prompts and discussions to help you plan, write, and revise your family stories. By reflecting on intimate truths, we can redefine how we think about ourselves and our kin, contribute to our communities, and spark vital conversations.

This workshop is offered in both English and Spanish. Participants will leave with new pages.

Kristen Millares Young (she/her) is a journalist, essayist, and author. Her novel Subduction was a winner of the Nautilus and IPPY awards, as well as a finalist for two International Latino Book Awards and Foreword Indies Book of the Year. She is also the editor of Seismic. Millares Young was the researcher for the New York Times team behind “Snow Fall,” which won a Pulitzer. Her essays, reviews, and investigations appear in the Washington Post, the Guardian, and anthologies such as Alone Together.

Millares Young lives in Seattle.

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