Writing from your abundance:: Writers resisting survival mode
Writers from all practices and genres are invited to join me in this session of writing from restored and reimagined abundance.
How have survivalist tendencies disconnected you from your voice? Imagine what it would mean to resist or to leave the spaces that force you into survival mode. Think of what you would write if you felt free enough. In this virtual safe space, held and hosted by Amara Amaryah, you will be in the company of writers who want to return to their original fullness and excitement for their craft.
Survival mode shows up in many ways in our lives and routines. As writers, the vulnerability of showing up and telling the stories that we’re called to, can be frightening but can be an invaluable offering. It promotes a cycle of freedom; as we tell our truths it allows others to stand firmer in theirs. This workshop is intended to interrupt the effects of survival mode to embolden and inspire the writing that deserves to flow from you into the world. I will guide you through an hour and a half of writing and thinking beyond scarcity from an open heart and mind.
Intentions for the session::
~ creating a creative safety net for imagination
~ making space for new realities through your own words, lovingly releasing what no longer is true for who you now are.
~ challenging/considering survivalist habits while in community and on page
~ reading from resources of others who dared
~ affirming other writers
~ allowing self-inquiry
~ inspiration and a reminder of the vastness that exists in you
Hopefully, you’ll leave this workshop with::
~ a stronger and restored sense of abundance
~ awareness about the ways survival mode may interact with your writing
~ time to observe yourself writing in new ways
~ journal prompts to write from
~ a reading list
~ community
Additional info::
~ Bring along your favourite journal, something to write with, and a Sunday beverage. We’ll be writing and taking notes (of self and inspiration) in this session.
~ This virtual workshop is set for 1.5 hours. This is a guideline and we will see how the session flows.
~ This session will take place on Zoom. The link will be sent the day before the workshop.
~ This session will not be recorded but I will send out a document with the resources and materials included.
~ Zoom closed captioning will be on for accessibility.
About your host::
Amara Amaryah is a poet, travel and wellness writer, author, and nomad. She writes the Life Is In Love With Me newsletter, a landing place for travel memories and love stories. After graduating from the University of Birmingham with a first-class English Literature degree as the recipient of the Tess Winnall prize (awarded for the highest dissertation on the course on Maya Angelou’s autobiographical series), Amara discovered her literary love rested in Caribbean poetry and Black women’s autobiographical fiction. As a young professional, Amara ventured into the world of digital marketing, only to quickly understand that her gifts were not well placed in an office environment nor the hyper-online nature of life as a Digital Marketing Manager. She packed up her apartment, pivoted her career, and left the UK to travel the world, teaching English and travel writing for various publications. Amara’s travel and wellness writing has been published in Time Out, Condé Nast Traveler, ESSENCE, AMAKA studio, The Good Trade, SELF, Well+Good, Travel Noire, Black Ballad, and more. She has made homes in car-less islands on the Caribbean coast of Central America and small mountain towns in Mexico. Solo travelling introduced Amara to the possibility of shaking limiting beliefs and choosing life. She loves this the most and is committed to writing about it while travelling slowly in her favourite places in the world.
Her debut poetry pamphlet ‘The Opposite of an Exodus’ was published by Bad Betty Press in 2021. Amara’s poems have since been published in The Caribbean Writer, Lolwe, Wasafiri, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Under the Radar Magazine, PREE Lit Mag, and translated into Spanish in the Colombian publication Arcadia. In 2019 the poet was invited to perform a collection of poems at the Cosmopoética literary festival in Córdoba, Spain. Recently Amara was invited to read poems virtually at the USVI Literary Festival & Book Fair 2023 as part of the Writer’s Bachanal. She has also read on various stages in the UK including Birmingham’s Hippodrome as a part of the Hippodrome Young Poets collective and The Royal Shakespeare Company. Prior to her poetry, Amara was selected as a writer for the TYPT:16 sold-out production HATCH, by Talawa Theatre Company, the leading Black British theatre company in the UK. A few workshops that she has most enjoyed teaching include an experimental poetic form session with Trust + Travel and a virtual poetry and storytelling session with The Mix UK.
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