Imagination Reclamation: Writing for Your Inner Child

Please be mindful we are prioritizing BIWOC queer, trans, and gender non conforming femmes

Workshop description: This is a writing workshop meant to help writers, of any genre or skill, write to connect with their most spiritual selves. Using free-write and meditative methods, this workshop will challenge you to speak to, sit with, and engage with your inner child. We ask that you bring an offering to the workshop. This can be a picture or object from your childhood that can be used either as a grounding object or as a source of inspiration. As we write to our past and future selves I want us to reflect on this question: What would you bring to the shrine of your childhood?

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Facilitator Bio

Talia Wright (they/she) is a poetry/prose writer born and raised on the Southside of Chicago. They are a 2019 Pink Door Fellow and are currently an artist in residence with DIVINE Art Book (on Instagram @divineartbook). They have been published in In These Times, Changing Womxn, Hooligan Magazine, Beestung Magazine, and more. Their work is informed by Blackness, the great migration, and spending summer afternoons dancing under their grandparents’ Mulberry tree. Currently, you can find them bookselling while sneak-writing poems between the stacks.

DIVINE's mission statement: DIVINE’s mission is to deconstruct and heal the harm caused by organized religion, using curatorial practices, community building, and dialogue centered in ancestral traditions in addition to reclaiming spiritual practices from organized religion.