Literary Liberation

Literary Liberation

How Found Poetry Frees Us From the Blank Page
The page is already full. We’ll learn how to listen for what’s waiting inside it.
 • Literary Liberation and Dr. Tonia Dixon
Creative Inheritance as Craft: The Art of Pastiche
Explore how influence, admiration, and experimentation can become tools for writing fiction.
 • Literary Liberation and Savannah
Entering the Page: Found Poetry Through Toni Morrison
In this one-day workshop, students will craft original poems while moving through Morrison's language in a way that is personal and alive.
 • Literary Liberation and Shawna Ayoub
That's All She Wrote: Short Stories by Black Women
In this four week workshop, students will deepen their understanding of voice, form, pacing, and perspective while generating new work.
 • Literary Liberation and Shawna Ayoub
Writer's Block Isn't Real: On Embracing Stillness
Turn frustration into clarity and leave with a grounded, repeatable approach to sustaining your creativity during this one day workshop.
 • Literary Liberation, Jasper “Jaz” Joyner, and Shawna Ayoub

Freedom Ways

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A refresher on our ongoing collaborative series with Memoir Land.
 • Sherisa de Groot (she/her), Memoir Land, and Literary Liberation
Writing into the Truth about Black Mental Health
DW McKinney on finding the courage to write her memoir about her OCD, and finding inspiration in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
 • Literary Liberation, Memoir Land, and DW McKinney
📣 Submit your first person narrative essay to our Freedom Ways essay collab with Memoir Land!
This is a paid call. Subs pause when we hit 150 submissions. Send in your best work—details inside!
 • Sherisa de Groot (she/her), Literary Liberation, and Memoir Land
When Books Become a Container of Possibility for Black Girls
Emma Akpan on how books became both refuge and revelation for a Black girl seeking her place in the world.
 • Literary Liberation, Memoir Land, and Emma Akpan
"I have to believe the work is inherently useful because it frees me."
Educator and writer Saskia Kercy on constant revision, reimagining new realities, and how everything counts.
 • saskia and Literary Liberation
"Connection is integral to liberatory work"
Poet and artist Zoë Luh on the power of dreaming, the importance of connection, and how living with a disability is a constant reminder to resist.
 • Zoë Luh
"Writing requires an emotional nudity that prompts a similar ethic in liberation work."
Poet and editor Ashna Ali on radical honesty, attention, and creativity as a divine right.
 • PAIN BABY, Literary Liberation, and WE THE SOIL
"Poetry is an armor of possibility"
Poet & educator Noah Arhm Choi on community power, mapping our freedom, and the fullness of our humanity.
 • Noah Arhm Choi, Literary Liberation, and WE THE SOIL

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