✍️WORKSHOP: Writing from the Margins: Identity, Marginalization, and Creative Power w/ Regina Beach
** This is a LIVE workshop. Attendees will be sent a video recording after the workshop. **
How do we write from our full, lived experience without flattening or erasing complexity? How can we honor our intersectional identities on the page in ways that feel authentic, empowering, and creatively alive?
In this generative workshop, poet and essayist Regina Beach will guide writers to explore identity, marginalization, and belonging through craft and practice. Drawing from her experience as a writer, editor, and community facilitator, Regina will share strategies for writing from the margins with both sensitivity and power.
You’ll hear how other writers have brought their whole selves into their work, and you’ll leave with fresh ideas, new drafts, and the courage to write from your own perspective.
In this workshop, you will:
Explore how to bring your intersectional identities—ability, race, class, sexuality, and more—into your writing with nuance and confidence
Generate two new works in progress from creative prompts
Learn from examples of writers who embrace complexity and truth in their work
Leave with practical ideas for weaving lived experience into your creative process
What to bring: Something to write with. Optional: jot down a few identity groups you belong to as starting points for reflection.
About Regina Beach
Regina Beach is a disabled poet and essayist. Originally from the American midwest, she now calls the Welsh Valleys home. Her writing has appeared in Global Poemic, Boldly Mental, The Rail, Haiku by You, Five Minutes, Visual Verse, The Horror Tree, and Disoriented among others. She is the founder of the literary magazine Lesions | Art + Words, which features the work of people living with chronic health conditions. Regina hosts Writers’ Hour and is the editor-in-chief of the Salon’s Writing in Community anthology. She facilitates monthly writing workshops for the MS-UK charity and is the producer of the Living Well with MS podcast. Read more of Regina’s writing at reginagbeach.com or subscribe to her newsletter at reginagbeach.substack.com.
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