This full day writing retreat is open to all members of the Black community, writers at all levels and nonwriters alike. This opportunity will help provide a safe and comfortable space to start the writing process, remove some of the barriers of confidence, and provide a roadmap on where or how to start.

To make the writing process accessible and enjoyable, Ebony Adedayo (founder of the Aya Collective, a space that centers the expertise and experience of Black women, and program manager at the Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching at Macalester College) and Pamela Fletcher Bush (executive director of Saint Paul Almanac) will gently lead workshop participants in guided writing exercises and discussion that will demonstrate the love for writing and how it can be used as a tool.

Because we know that stories humanize us, the workshop will feature writers T. Aaron Cisco and Junauda Petrus-Nasah, who will read their works to illustrate how using one’s unique voice to tell personal stories brings necessary healing. They have used the pen to help them process and heal from significant events that have interrupted and or impacted their lives.

This writing retreat is being offered by the Minnesota Black Publishing Arts Collaborative in collaboration with the Minnesota Humanities Center.

Continental breakfast and lunch are included. A journal will be provided. Registration will be limited to 40 participants.

Registration is $30 (fee waiver available). Learn more and register here: https://mnhum.org/event/telling-my-story/