Tongues Of Fire Writers Workshop: Epistolary Writing
The sisters of the yam Writing Society is partnering with multimedia artist Danielle Mason and Womb Speak to host the April Tongues of Fire Writers Workshop.
This is a creative writing and craft-based gathering designed to explore voice, memory, and embodiment through epistolary practice.
This project invites participants to engage in journaling, letter writing, and speculative fiction as tools for self-expression and reflection.
Drawing inspiration from the akuaba doll, a West African symbol of fertility and care, the project aligns craft elements with writing practices to create a space where participants can explore creation in both material and narrative forms.
Through poetic prose and hybrid storytelling, participants will be encouraged to examine the space where nonfiction and fiction meet.
Danielle Mason is an educator, multi-media artist, and emerging arts writer who explores the kinship between Black expressive culture, fiber art, and matrilineal traditions. Mason is the founder of Ancient Mother’s Wisdom Inc., a curriculum non-profit geared towards providing rites of passage programming for adolescent Black girls to educate on topics of folk art, spirituality, and holistic sexuality. She currently teaches Photography at Jack Yates HS in Houston, TX, and continues to pursue freelance writing in her spare time. Her work has been featured in multiple exhibits and publications including: What We Carry, an anthology featuring reflections on Black motherhood, When We Exhale, an anthology for Black women on grief, intimacy, and love, and Project Row Houses: Round 60.
For more information, visit: diasporicdaughter.wordpress.com or @diasporicdaughter on Instagram.
Womb Speak is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.