Fiction Workshop (Virtual)

If you like reading, writing, and crazy conversations, then this workshop is for you! Develop your craft, learn about different elements of prose writing, grow comfortable with revision, and join a community of writers. Come share your stories and learn through the work of other emerging artists. Open to youth ages 13 to 19.This workshop series is a partnership between Southern Word and the Nashville Public Library’s Studio NPL.

Gabriela Gonzales writes about the beautiful tragedy of human communication. She won first place for fiction in the Sandra Hutchins’ Humanities Symposium Writing Awards in 2016, 2017, and 2018 and received the Ruby Treadway Award for Fiction in 2019. Her debut novel, HOW TO LOVE YOU WHEN YOU’RE GONE is due for release in Summer 2026 by Little, Brown Young Readers. Her work has been featured in Belmont Literary Journal, Awakened Voices Literary Magazine, formercactus, Synaesthesia Magazine, Waxing and Waning, Cosmonauts Avenue, Lost Balloon, Open: Journal of Arts and Letters, Kissing Dynamite, Chestnut Review, pidgeonholes, The Lumiere Review, and Wigleaf and in 2022, she performed at TEDxNashville. Her poem “Sunday Morning Girl” in Lost Balloon was nominated for 2020 Best of the Net, and her poems “windmills over Zaandam”in Chestnut Review and “Haunted House” in The Lumiere Review were nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize.