Exits & Entrances: Writing In & Out of Wounds

Class Description

How do we write as we wrestle through the complications and challenges of placemaking trauma? Can sorrow & grief lead to an emergence in our writing, especially for writers who are traversing their own cultural histories and ancestral cartographies?

In this session, you will begin to identify the exits and entrances of wounds, allowing your stories to be exploratory. Writing prompts & readings will act as a guide to generative entrances into the writing. To quote Bayo Akolomafe, We will use “sorrow as the cartographer”, while citing your work/writing as the map. Author readings include: Bayo Akolomafe, Joy Harjo, J. Drew Lanham, Tracy K. Smith, Lauret Savoy, and Ocean Vuong.

This session is best suited for writers of fiction & nonfiction writers of various forms, novel, short story, poetry, memoir!

Class Format

This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. About 15 minutes before your class is scheduled to begin, you'll receive an email from your instructor with a link to join the class meeting!

Scholarship Information

Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.

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