Event
The Write Together Retreat: Motherhood Edition featuring Aimee Suzara
with Write or Die
March 23 • 11:00 AM (EST) - 3:30 PM (EST)
Dates
March 23 • 11:00 AM (EST) - 3:30 PM (EST)
Duration
4 hours
Location
Online
Price
US$39
About the event
Join us for a day of writing during our monthly virtual retreat! You will have the opportunity to write alongside other writers in real time and learn from authors in the industry. This will be a time of encouragement and a chance to make real progress!
Details
This special retreat is for mothers who write!
Whether you’re just thinking about an idea, just starting a project or are deep into revisions, this is for you.
This retreat includes a special craft chat and Q&A with Aimee Suzara about the 'labor of othering'—a concept tied to the often invisible tasks associated with caregiving and work, and how these responsibilities can conflict with or undermine one's creative practice. We'll explore the intersection of these duties with our writing, identifying the challenges they present and moving towards practical solutions.
Wherever you are in your process, we welcome you with open arms. You don’t have to write alone. Your art matters. Time to deepen your love for your own work and set it into motion.
Let’s write together.
Additional info
This retreat includes:
• 2 one-hour live writing sessions over Zoom
• Breaks in between sessions
• 1 hour-long author chat and open Q&A with Aimee Suzara
• Resources and author notes sent via email at the end of the retreat
• Generative writing prompts before each session to get you started
Retreat Schedule
11:00 AM: Welcome with Kailey and Tamar
11:15 -12:15 PM: First writing session
12:15 -12:30 PM: Break
12:30 - 1:30 PM: Second writing session
1:30 -2:00 PM: Break
2:00-3:15 PM: Aimee author chat
3:15-3:30 PM: Wrap up and conversation with Kailey and Tamar
Featured authors
Aimee Suzara
Aimee Suzara is a Filipino-American poet, playwright, and interdisciplinary performer based in Oakland, CA. Her book SOUVENIR (2014) was a Willa Award Finalist; poems and prose appear in publications such as Kartika Review, Lantern Review, Orion Magazine, Raising Mothers, and Popsugar. She has been invited to universities, conferences and festivals such as O! Miami, Utah Arts Festival, and the A/PA Institute at NYU. Her play THE REAL SAPPHO was awarded the Kenneth Rainin Foundation New Works and she has been awarded by YBCAway, A Room of Her Own Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has collaborated with Deep Waters Dance Theater, Alayo Dance Theater, and a spoken word opera with Grammy-Award-winning Kronos Quartet. Currently a Fellow with Poetry and the Senses at UC Berkeley, Suzara teaches at San Francisco State University and is a writing coach through her business, Wild Tongues. She received her M.F.A. at Mills College.
Hosted by
Kailey Brennan DelloRusso
Kailey is a writer from Plymouth, MA. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Write or Die Magazine and is currently working on her first novel. Visit her newsletter, In the Weeds, or find her on Instagram @kaileydellorusso and Twitter @kaileydello
Tamar Mekredijian
Tamar is the fiction editor of Write or Die Magazine. Her work appears at Literary Mama and Coffee and Crumbs. She is working on her first novel, which was long-listed for The Master's Review 2021 Novel Excerpt Contest. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children