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Creative Inheritance as Craft: The Art of Pastiche
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Hello writers!
Starting June 15 at Literary Liberation, Balmir Bowen is teaching a four-week workshop, That’s All She Wrote: Short Stories...
What Does it Really Mean to be “Stuck”?
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Hello writers! Don’t forget our first Submit It! submission jam happens tomorrow at 12p EST.
On June 13 at Literary Liberation, is teachin...
June 2026: This Month at a Glance
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Writers & Readers—
May really set the tone for the remainder of 2026 at Lit Lib. Behind the scenes, things are shaping up (and are stil...
PARK & WRITE co-writing dates & times for June
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Happy June, writers!
We know how difficult it can be to find the time to sit and get our words out of our heads. Sometimes it’s best to...
📆 Mark your calendars! Register now for our first 'Submit It!' Submission Jam on June 3 at 12p EST
What We’re Doing
Submissions can be super overwhelming. We want to try and help make it less so with a dedicated monthly submission hour where we gather and get the work done. That’s why we’re hosting a dedicated monthly...
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"If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest." -Audre Lorde ✨ Workshops, cowriting sessions, book recs, deep dives, interviews, essays & more. ✊\ud83c\udffe
All things memoir and personal essays! Four verticals: "Memoir Monday" weekly roundup of best essays; "First Person Singular" original personal essays; "The Lit Lab" interviews and craft essays; and "Goodbye to All That" featuring NYC stories.
Just out here playing/being tall. Poetically, of course (they are not tall).
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Writer, editor, cultural steward. She publishes Raising Mothers, Literary Liberation, and A Home Within Myself. Aquarius Sun.
Shawna Ayoub is a brown, queer, Durham-based writer and instructor. She teaches through Survive Your Story, Center for Creative Writing, and is Director of Programs for Literary Liberation.
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A Professor. I engage, enlighten and empower students. An Artist. I write. I play with words. I muse. I’m discovering.
Mya Matteo Alexice is a Cave Canem fellow studying Black romantic life. He is also the author of The Limerence Object (2025). Matteo’s poems have appeared in publications such as Pleiades, The Rumpus, swamp pink, Black Warrior Review and elsewhere.
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