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January Workshops

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Do It Anyway: Removing Creative Blocks for Better Writing | 2 weeks
A 2-day workshop led by Keisha-Gaye Anderson
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Literary Liberation
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Keisha-Gaye Anderson
Under Your Skin: Writing About, From, and With the Body | 2 weeks
A 2-day workshop led by Priscilla Thomas
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Literary Liberation
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Priscilla Thomas
After Birth: Postpartum Narratives | 3 hours
A one-day workshop led by Sarah Dalton
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Sarah Dalton
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Literary Liberation
Stand in Your Power: How to Share Your Truth with Authenticity and Respect | 3 weeks
A three-week workshop led by Katherin Elizabeth Garland
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Literary Liberation
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K E Garland
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It's All in The Breath: Embodying Your Creative Self | 3 hours
A 1-day workshop led by Leonora Simonovis
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Literary Liberation
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Leonora

LIT LIB Daily

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New Year, New Stories: Register for Our January 2025 Workshops!
Lit Lib Weekly #5
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Literary Liberation
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Leonora
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Katherin Garland
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Priscilla Thomas
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Keisha-Gaye Anderson
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Sarah Dalton
☾Lunar Lit #12 | (Apocalyptic) Sag Season Advice from Someone Way Smarter than Me
AKA Sagittarian Advice from Aquarian Revolutionary N.K. Jemisin
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Jess Cato
Write On #12 | The Body as an Altar
Today’s prompt explores the body as an altar.
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Rios de la Luz
January 2025 workshops are LIVE 👀 + so many other updates OMG 🤩
Lit Lib Weekly #4
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Literary Liberation
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Leonora
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Katherin Garland
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Priscilla Thomas
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Keisha-Gaye Anderson
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Sarah Dalton
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Lisa "Rubi G." Ventura

Upcoming

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November at Literary Liberation
Submit to KIN KEEPERS. 8 WRITE NOW sessions this month! Join us for KIN KEEPERS. Submit your essays. Join our team!
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Literary Liberation
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Free Write

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#2 Seasons of Change | Community Prompt
Each month, we open our doors to all writers with a thoughtfully crafted prompt, creating a space for shared inspiration and community dialogue.
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Yomalis Rosario
november intentions
setting intentions for a november you can be proud of
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Sherisa
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#9 Elizabeth Acevedo
Every month, a featured author on Raising Mothers shares a writing prompt with our private community.
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Elizabeth Acevedo
#8 Cleyvis Natera
Every month, a featured author on Raising Mothers shares a writing prompt with our private community.
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Cleyvis Natera
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The Write Stuff

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✍🏽 Staying Present: Moving Beyond Good/Bad to the Heart of the Story
"The postpartum period is electric with powerful stories and images for us to explore, and myths and realities for us to unknot."
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Sarah Dalton
✍🏽 Break the Barricades that Bury You Inside Your Body
"To access those parts of ourselves and create a funnel for our creativity to flow through, we need to do a little work to facilitate that easy flow."
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Keisha-Gaye Anderson
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✍🏽 Mango Sunday
"I laugh with my whole body, which he takes as an invitation to join me."
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Zee Khadijah Karim
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Behind the Book with Cherise Fisher
“Bring your whole self into every room you enter. Take up space. Seek and maintain mentoring relationships with other Black women and power brokers of…
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Sherisa
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✍🏽The Three Resistances as Portals for Women, Writers, and Warriors
Register for Natasha Thomas's three week class, WOMEN, WRITING & RESISTANCE starting Sept 29.
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Natasha Elle Thomas

Workshops & Events!

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Do It Anyway: Removing Creative Blocks for Better Writing | 2 weeks
A 2-day workshop led by Keisha-Gaye Anderson
 • 
Literary Liberation
 and 
Keisha-Gaye Anderson
Under Your Skin: Writing About, From, and With the Body | 2 weeks
A 2-day workshop led by Priscilla Thomas
 • 
Literary Liberation
 and 
Priscilla Thomas
After Birth: Postpartum Narratives | 3 hours
A one-day workshop led by Sarah Dalton
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Sarah Dalton
 and 
Literary Liberation
Stand in Your Power: How to Share Your Truth with Authenticity and Respect | 3 weeks
A three-week workshop led by Katherin Elizabeth Garland
 • 
Literary Liberation
 and 
K E Garland
3
It's All in The Breath: Embodying Your Creative Self | 3 hours
A 1-day workshop led by Leonora Simonovis
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Literary Liberation
 and 
Leonora
JOIN US | WRITE NOW Writing Sessions
Get your writing on every Tuesday AND Thursday, starting Oct 15.
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Literary Liberation
Course | November 3-24 | See Me Naked: Writing Into the Depths of Pleasure and Delight
Dates: Sundays, November 3 - November 24
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Zee Khadijah Karim
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KIN KEEPERS Live Storytelling Presents: Friendship
Send us your friendship stories! Submissions now close November 10th!
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Sherisa
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Lisa "Rubi G." Ventura
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a literary life

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"I’m interested in utopia and the impediments to utopia." Emily Raboteau's Literary Life
Emily Raboteau, author of her most recent work, LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL: MOTHERING AGAINST "THE APOCALYPSE" talks about the importance of being understood.
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Sherisa
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Emily Raboteau
"The belief that words have power, that Black stories matter, and that I can write to make a difference all inspired me to become an…
Renée Watson, author of over 15 books, most recently BLACK GIRL YOU ARE ATLAS and 'skin & bones' takes us through her literary career, and tells us why…
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Sherisa
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"For so long publishing acted like it didn’t have space for this kind of writing, so I do so unapologetically." Minda Honey's Literary Life
The author of THE HEARTBREAK YEARS shares sound writing advice, her top book recommendations, and reveals a bit about future projects.
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Minda 💛
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Sherisa
"[My] responsibility is to understand the context of my own existence." Keisha-Gaye Anderson's Literary Life
"As an immigrant first-born daughter, this is not the practical or stable thing to do in the eyes of our family."
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Sherisa
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Keisha-Gaye Anderson
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Leslie Taylor Grover's Literary Life
"I want to tell the truth and share the story I’m given and inspired to write by Black women’s experiences and my ancestors’ blessings."
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Sherisa
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Leslie T. Grover, PhD
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