Literary arts

Learn artful ways to cope with life’s challenges, anxiety, and stress by utilizing the empowering and healing capacities of writing. Creative writing exercises will be presented as tools for personal reflection and betterment. Individuals should come prepared to write and will be guided through writing exercises using prompts and mindful inspiration. The workshop will focus on nonfiction writing, including free writing, memoir, and poetry, with additional exercises shared for experimentation at home.

Dear Body, is a cross-border literary anthology that invites you to write letters to your body, sparking honest, creative, and necessary dialogue around aging, fertility, roles, menopause, and other hormonal changes. By using the powerful, intimate epistolary form, we aim to normalize conversations that are too often silenced or stigmatized. Whether humorous, raw, celebratory, or reflective, we invite letters (in poetic or prose form) that speak to the nuanced experience of womanhood/personhood, across identities.

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Submissions Accepted: Unpublished short stories and poems in English (5,000 words or less)

Categories: 30+

Deadline: Thursday, January 28, 2027

Entry Fee: $25 for the first category, and $20 for every additional category entered for the same story