Words & Wings
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Red Light Lit Art Show
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March 8, 8-10pm
LilleAske Art House
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Join us for a curated Red Light Lit performance art show to hear Kimberly read from her forthcoming, debut novel, A Road of Her Own, alongside incredible writers and musicians from the Santa Cruz area.
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Monthly Songwriter Circle
March 10, 8-9pm
Everyone's Music School
Tannery Arts Center
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Free Workshop:
Poetry from Simple Pleasures​
April 8, 6:30-8pm
Capitola Public Library
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What’s something every poet and writer uses for inspiration? Heartbreak, the past, and pain - am I right? But maybe you want to build a writing practice that doesn’t rely on ultra highs and crazy lows to create. If you’re ready to mine inspiration from simple pleasures and the everyday, then the Happy Ink: Crafting Poetry from Simple Pleasures Workshop is for you.
In this 90-min workshop, we’ll get inspiration from other writers and dive into pleasureful writing prompts. Walk away with new poems to jumpstart your writing practice!
Writing Class:
Storytelling & the Body
Tuesdays, May 6-27
7-8 pm PT Online
In this class, creatives will learn how to use four different mediums to write about the body: memoir, poetry, song, and oral storytelling.
Taught by the skilled, creative trio of Danielle Bainbridge, Kimberly Gomes, and Jane Hseu, each week will feature a different style of writing and a way to intersect with the body. Your facilitators will model ways to tackle memoir writing through a variety of disciplines and each new form or method introduced will open up new ways to approach memoir and personal writing.
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Students will leave the course with:
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a mixed methods approach to memoir writing and writing about the body
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the start of one new prose/memoir piece, poem, and oral story
About Kimberly
Wayfinding woman.
Passionate writer.
Multidisciplinary creative.
Kimberly Gomes is an author, poet, sing-songwriter, and writing coach who hosts creative happenings online and in her coastal town of Santa Cruz, CA.
You can also read her personal essays, poems, and songs via her Substack, or listen to archive episodes of her Soul on the Rise podcast.
Kimberly is the author of poetry book, Love Notes to the Body (Dancing Girl Press, 2019), a fiction novel, A Road of Her Own (Red Light Lit, 2025), and an in-progress travel memoir. She was a 2024 artist-in-residence at Arquetopia Oaxaca, a semi-finalist for the 2022 Black Lawrence Press Book Award, a 2021 top essayist of Entropy Magazine, and has been featured in a variety of literary journals, as well as The San Francisco Chronicle, Sunset Magazine, and Forbes.com. Her debut album, First Bloom, a mix of her music and spoken word tracks was released in 2024.
While getting her MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State, Kimberly became an active member of San Francisco's literary scene where she performed at open mics, performance shows, and book launches. After moving to Santa Cruz in 2021, Kimberly adored the community but saw an opportunity to help bring creatives together, which is what she's focused on doing these days.
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