What do you love? What do you grieve? What contradictions do you hold?

This workshop creates space for our multiple truths to exist at once. Through a series of generative freewriting prompts and invitations to share in small groups, together we will explore our messy, beloved, liminal selves.

Drawing inspiration from writers like Ross Gay, Li-Young Lee, and Terry Tempest Williams, we will explore the ways paradoxical experiences coexist within us: grief and joy, hope and despair, and the feeling of living with uncertainty and holding gratitude in these tumultuous times.

Writers will be encouraged to lean into vulnerability and to witness each other through active listening.
While no one will be required to share, you will get the most out of this workshop if you are willing to offer even just one line or paragraph of your writing for others to hear. Whether you are looking for a way to surface new topics that you care deeply about, or seeking inspiration and connection, this workshop aims to create space for each of us to tap into our authentic voice and selves. Together we will ask questions and explore what it means to exist in “in between” spaces.

You’ll come away with a list of prompts you can return to, the potential starts of new essays or poems, and a deepened trust in why writing in community matters.

August 18: General registration opens at 10:30 am PT
August 25: Scholarships open
August 30: Last day of Early Bird discount
Learn more and register with Hugo House here.