New! Prose Café Bellas Artes || San Miguel Literary Sala
Event Category: Literary Events
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New! Prose Café Bellas Artes
Wendy Mason, Amy Cotler, Nancy BorrisWednesday, April 24,
5:00 – 6:00 PMSala Literaria, 1st Floor
El Centro Culturál Ignacio Ramírez “El Nigromante”
Hernández Macías 75Suggested Donation $50 pesos
New Reading Series Hosts Writers of Fiction and Nonfiction
By Maia Williams
The second Prose Café Bellas Artes will be held in Sala Literaria on April 24th. Prose Café is a curated series of readings featuring three writers of fiction and nonfiction presenting fifteen minutes of their work in a casual setting.
Wendy Mason spent most of her life in the northeast United States before moving to San Miguel, where she has lived for the last 10 years. She is passionate about the creative process, and besides writing, enjoys expressing herself in many different mediums. In 2016, she wrote, produced, and directed a multimedia show at the Angela Peralta theater entitled “Enlighten-up.” She writes both prose and poetry, and has enjoyed reading her work here at Bellas Artes and at various events for writers in La Manzanilla, Mexico.
Amy Cotler is a longtime food professional and writer. She’s author of five cookbooks and has just finished a culinary memoir, Unexpected Pleasures: Tales from a Culinary Alchemist. Amy has lectured, taught cooking, food writing and culinary history in numerous schools, including the Culinary Institute of America. She was an early leader in the farm-to-table movement in the US. A food forum host for the New York Times for 6 years, amy created about 1000 recipes for Joy of Cooking, her own books and other publications. She lived in New York City and New England before moving to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico with her husband, an artist.
A “bookworm” since she could read, Nancy Borris was born and raised in Los Angeles in a house full of readers and books. There, her lifelong and steadying habit of journal writing began. She is a former book and magazine designer—for the LA Weekly, House & Garden, and Shape Magazine, among others—and lived her love of words through designing them. In 1996 Nancy moved to San Miguel with her five-year old twin girls, rented a small studio on Pila Seca (in the building that now houses Mixta) and began to write short stories that freely combine fiction with memoir.
Prose Café Bellas Artes will resume meeting monthly in September of 2019.
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