Writing in the Deep: Inviting Your Grief to the Page

Online weekly two-hour sessions for three consecutive Mondays.

This writing workshop meets virtually once a week for three weeks and is designed to help you explore, deepen, or return to grief-centered writing in a meaningful way. Your ticket includes all three two-hour sessions, thoughtful writing prompts, and personalized feedback from a seasoned and supportive workshop facilitator who has been using writing to process grief and loss for decades. Whether you're just dipping your toe into storytelling, sustaining a preexisting writing practice, or returning to the page after some time away, this group offers a creative container for reflection, healing, and momentum. All genres and experience levels are welcome.

This virtual workshop is designed to be collaborative and interactive, providing participants with an intentional burst of dedicated writing time and creative community. Zoom sessions for this workshop will be held:

• Monday, November 17 // 4-6 PM PT

• Monday, November 24 // 4-6 PM PT

• Monday, December 1 // 4-6 PM PT

The world feels heavy right now—and let’s be honest, so do many of our hearts. Grief is a universal truth, something almost entirely inescapable in this life; it’s also a powerful thread of connection and a portal to our most potent and true stories. This winter, join beloved DIVE facilitator Kerri Anne Stebbins for a timely and emotionally resonant workshop designed to hold space for any deep water you’re ready to explore. Hosted by Creative Fuel Collective, this (for now) one-time offering invites you to write through whatever is surfacing for you—with community, courage, and care.

Every Monday for three weeks we'll invite our respective and collective grief onto the page, writing together during class using curated, bespoke prompts Kerri designed specifically for this workshop and that she’ll customize further based on the overall composition of the group. We'll encourage one another and hold each other accountable to any writing goals we've set for ourselves within a supportive and inclusive space. There will be opportunities for sharing writing we’ve worked on outside of class, too.

Alongside our weekly gatherings, Kerri will send out bonus writing prompts and reflections to help keep your words flowing between sessions, and to help you grow (or maintain) a sustainable and generative writing practice. 

This workshop will be capped to keep it feeling cozy and collaborative. Our writing groups are popular, so be sure to sign up early! If you want more info on future writing group dates, and to be on our writing group-specific mailing list, click here. 

Suggested materials

• Notebook/loose leaf paper

• Pens and/or pencils

There will be opportunities to write electronically (if you'd like) and opportunities to write with paper and pen(cil), so please bring whatever you need to best capture your words and thoughts.

We have a select number of scholarships available per cohort for queer and/or BIPOC writers or anyone currently facing financial hardship. Please email hello@creativefuelcollective.com with the subject line: "Writing workshop scholarship request" if that's you.

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About Kerri Anne Stebbins

​A fan of stories of all sizes and types, Kerri wrote her first play in 5th grade—an amusing adaptation of an R.L. Stine story—and won her first writing contest in 8th grade. The prize? $200 cash and a D.A.R.E. bear. Since that short-lived but thrilling literary fame she's centered her life on words, writing and devouring them in equal measure and at every opportunity. After majoring in English Literature in undergrad, Kerri dove into the business realm of writing; she's been a freelance writer and editor since 2004 and a book marketer for an independent publishing house since 2016. That she gets paid to help people tell their stories will never stop feeling like a dream. A published poet and artist with (arguably way too) many manuscripts in progress, Kerri delights in facilitating creativity and connection through her quarterly writing group for Creative Fuel Collective—DIVE. When she isn't writing, reading, or leading writing workshops, Kerri is most likely walking into cold water, giddily riding her bike, or painting next to an alpine lake.

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These classes are intended to be live and interactive. If you can't make a class or have any questions, please email hello@creativefuelcollective.com. For questions about this specific workshop, please email kerri.anne.stebbins@gmail.com.