1 Session, Saturday, March 9, 12-3pm Eastern Time

online, 30 students max

When mothers are planted,
daughters begin a furious blooming.

— Initiation, Kamilah Aisha Moon

Grief leaves us speechless, throws us into the depths of silence. There are never the right words to say to those who are grieving. Or to explain to others the depths of our own grief.

Grief is a door we are pushed through into a new world, a world we must live in. We are never the same. How do we write from these new selves? How can we lean into our writing practice to not only survive the storms of grief, but also the storms that are unleashed in those who we grieve alongside?

In this workshop, we will find inspiration from writers who have broken through the boundary of wordlessness. We will join each other in our grief journeys, if only for a moment. We will write of our own grief, side by side, and not so alone.

About the Instructor

Bushra Rehman’s novel, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, is a modern classic about what it means to be Muslim and queer in a Pakistani-American community. Roses was noted as a Best Book and Editor’s Choice by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Good Morning America, and Ms. Magazine among others. Her first collection of.dark comedy, Corona, was chosen by the NY Public Library as one of its favorite books about NYC. She’s co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism and author of the collection of poetry Marianna’s Beauty Salon.

A Furious Blooming: Writing Into Grief, 1 session with Bushra Rehman