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"Black women are brilliant short story writers."
will be teaching a four-week workshop with us starting Monday, June 15. We asked Savannah some questions to get to know her better. You can register now for That’s All She Wrote: Short Stories by Black Women.
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"Freedom Ways" so far...
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"We need our art now, and we need ourselves in the most optimal space to create that art."
will be teaching a three-hour workshop with us on Saturday, June 13. We asked Jasper some questions to get to know them better. You can register now for Writer’s Block Isn’t Real: On Embracing Stillness.
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"Your art is a real creation that can affect others and either contribute to or detract from ongoing conversations."
will be teaching a four-week workshop with us starting Saturday, May 30. We asked Matteo some questions to get to know them better. You can register now for Poetic Justice: Writing Toward a Better World.
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Introducing our New Community Membership
We’re excited to introduce a new option: the Community Membership.
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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
STORYTELLER | MEMOIRIST | YOGI | SCHOLAR |AUTHOR of In Search of a Salve: Memoir of a Sex Addict
Writer, reader and dreamer.
Writer, editor, cultural steward. Founder of Raising Mothers & Literary Liberation. 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.
Just out here playing/being tall. Poetically, of course (they are not tall).
Writer and Teacher
writer | founder @selfcaresuite, where Black women find rest + paths to easy living |
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Writer, Reader, Scholar, Cutie Pie
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.
A Professor. I engage, enlighten and empower students. An Artist. I write. I play with words. I muse. I’m discovering.
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