Writing | adriana rambay fernández

Absence and Excess Reading

I’m excited to be reading on Sunday, February 18 at the Hudson View Gardens on the theme of absence and excess. The event is part of the Bloom Reading Series. Other readers for the evening include fellow Jersey City Writer and poet Sarah T. Jewell and fiction writer Aarti Monteiro. This will be the first time I read from a story from my collection about a mother who lost two of her children as babies a year apart from one […]

Categories: Art, Events, Fiction, New York City, Reading, Writing • Tags: Absence, Excess, New York City, Readings, Writing

Before and after the thunderstorm

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Blue walls, red curtains, and gold-framed mirrors that reflect who is up on stage behind the microphone. Clothes damp, shoes soaked, a number of us had gathered to hear the Bennington Writers fiction reading at Cornelia Street Cafe while a thunderstorm raged over New York City. When the storm hit earlier in the day, I watched the sky cast charcoal gray from my perch on the eighth floor at the Center for Fiction. I headed out onto the Midtown streets […]

Categories: Events, Fiction, Reading, Writing • Tags: Inspiration, Mindfulness, nature, Readings, Thunderstorms, Writing

Bennington Writers at Cornelia Street

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Tonight I will be reading short fiction as part of the Bennington Writers evening at Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street, in NYC at 6 p.m. The evening will feature author, Jaime Clarke, and fellow Bennington writers Morgan Jerkins and Margo Greenfield. V. Hansmann and Oona Patrick will be co-hosts for the event.

Categories: Events, Fiction, Performance, Writing • Tags: Bennington, Events, Fiction, Readings, Writing

Dream like an octopus

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Inky the octopus may have dreamed about escaping his tank before he slipped through a six-inch-wide drain about four months ago at the New Zealand National Aquarium. He not only had the ability to squish his football-sized-body through the drain but could also likely open jars, solve puzzles, and apparently got bored. When I first read about Inky’s escape, I realized how little I know about the Earth’s sea creatures and invertebrates like the octopus. I wondered if Inky had planned his escape. […]

Categories: Travel, Writing • Tags: Dream, Inky, nature, Ocean, Octopus, Writing

Enter stillness to practice listening

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On a stretch of highway near Great Barrington, MA, I was called to stop at a dirt road framed by trees (pictured above). On one side a cemetery hid in the shade and on the other a green, grassy lawn stretched into the sunlight. The road felt majestic like the trees were tall knights guarding a secret passage. And the road’s existence itself felt hidden, especially to me as someone who wasn’t from the area but rather enjoying an extended […]

Categories: Meditation, Poetry, Travel, Writing • Tags: Creativity, Inspiration, Meditation, nature, Poetry, Stillness, Travel, Writing

Books that fill the sky with color

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Some books fill the sky with color. Some authors leave a distinct hue, their indelible mark in the space beyond the clouds. When Maya Angelou passed on May 28 in 2014, I watched a gorgeous sky take shape at sunset in Salinas, Ecuador. The clouds stretched across the sky and shades of pink lingered before giving way to gold then yellow then orange. It was her sky that evening, a majestic tribute in her honor. That evening I began a Maya Angelou reading […]

Categories: Ecuador, Fiction, Poetry, Reading, Travel, Writing • Tags: Ecuador, Fiction, Inspiration, Travel, Writing

Poem selected for publication

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I’m happy to share that my poem, “Anoche,” was selected as the top poem for a National Poetry Month contest held by the Jersey City Independent (JCI) and Jersey City Writers. The poem is one of three that will be featured and published by the JCI during the month of April. I’ll also have the opportunity to read the poem on April 13, 2016 at a literary reading being held at Barrow Mansion at 7 p.m. The event is being hosted by JCW, JCI, and […]

Categories: Events, Jersey City, Poetry, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: Creativity, Jersey City, Jersey City Writers, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Poetry Reading, Writing

Upcoming Yoga and Writing class

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Tune in and tap into your creativity with a Yoga & Writing class on Sunday, April 10 at 1:15pm in Jersey City.

Categories: Jersey City, Meditation, Writing, Yoga • Tags: Creativity, Jersey City, Jersey City Writers, Meditation, Writing, Yoga

Start where you are

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When you are at a loss about where to begin any practice, start where you are. Start where you are, and then again, start where you are. Each time you return to make an effort to change a habit, to shift a perspective, to be more open, start in that space of acceptance. Accept all of you including all of your stuff–that baggage that weighs a ton packed with emotions, fears, anxiety, stress, regret, pain, sadness–all of it. Starting where […]

Categories: Meditation, Writing, Yoga • Tags: Acceptance, Creativity, Meditation, Motivation, Writing, Yoga

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Absence and Excess Reading

Before and after the thunderstorm

Bennington Writers at Cornelia Street

Dream like an octopus

Enter stillness to practice listening

Books that fill the sky with color

Poem selected for publication

Upcoming Yoga and Writing class

Start where you are