from Laura Ellen Joyce's newsletter
The Museum of Atheism: Mycelial Life Renewed
Calamari Archive became the cocoon for this new iteration of my strange little horror story. Derek and Garielle showed me tenderness and care throughout the sometimes violent inner process of re-making the book.
Wonderful friends and loves fed the soil with spores. Generous readers extended its fungal network.
Mimi Zacharia: Writing from Obsession
Last month, I released a podcast episode with Mimi Zacharia. Mimi was a toddler when her displaced Palestinian parents moved to England via Lebanon escaping civil war. As she grew up, her obsessive reading habit became a way of dealing with intergenerational trauma, and eventually she started to write about her experiences.
Mimi's ceremonies for writing are:
Conferring with her ancestors to share their stories
Being in community with like-minded writers at home and in the forest
Perfecting her backflip
Electricity in the Writing Workshop
It’s September, so I have been reflecting on the writing workshop. When done right, the workshop becomes electric. The facilitator becomes a container for the dangerous feelings that emerge into the space. They conduct and ground. They allow the currents to flow as safely as possible. They help to bring a writer one step closer to their vision.
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