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Are you a writer?
Or, did you once love writing—before becoming a parent?
Do you wish you had more time and energy to be creative?
Re-Creating Our Voices: A Writing Circle for Mothers and Non-Binary Parents is designed to provide a space for our writing, to share strategies for being creative in our everyday lives, and to form a community of writers who seek to balance creative expression with raising children. We will meet for three sessions—two writing workshops, and one reading celebration of work written together—and participants are free to attend just one or two, or all three.
Both writing workshops will include a brief presentation of poems by published writers who are also parents, practical strategies for fitting writing in our busy lives, and structured time to write new work together and share our writing within the group. Our third meeting will be an open house celebration for participants of either (or both!) writing workshops as well as their guests to perform their work for an audience. At the conclusion of this series, participants will hopefully have new writing to continue developing, ideas for making time for their creative work, and reading recommendations and resources for staying connected to the wider literary world.
The first writing circle will take place on Monday, November 4, 2019 from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
The second writing circle will take place on Monday, November 18, 2019 from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
The celebration and group reading will take place on Monday, December 2, 2019 from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
All events will be held at La Fuente: Birth, Postpartum, y Más
located at 4093 Long Beach Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90807.
Free and open to the public (registration required)
Register for Re-Creating Our Voices here!
Michelle Brittan Rosado is a poet, mother, and teacher. Her poetry collection, Why Can’t It Be Tenderness, was published by University of Wisconsin Press in 2018. Her work has appeared in publications such as the Los Angeles Review, Poetry Daily, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships, including a 2018 Award from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, which supports artists with children. She holds an MFA in creative writing from California State University, Fresno, and recently completed a PhD in literature and creative writing from University of Southern California. She currently teaches writing at USC, and lives in Long Beach with her husband and son.
Supported in part by Arts Council for Long Beach and the City of Long Beach.