Writing Workshops

Broken Bindings: On Grieving the Living with Diane Zinna (January 2024)

$295

4 Sessions

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Once a week Mondays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT January 15 to February 5, 2024

Online via Zoom

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In this course, we will write to grieve those who are still alive but no longer connected to us in the way they once were. These separations might have been borne of our own need for self-protection, or we might be grieving someone else’s decision to end a relationship with us.

Together we’ll write about the broken bindings of friendships, romances, family, and place, and we’ll use some art exercises to free up thoughts and emotions around these often difficult separations. Writers will be encouraged to share aloud when they wish, and compassionate written feedback will be provided throughout the course by the instructor.

Course Outline

Session I: On the Broken Bindings of Friendship
Session II: On the Broken Bindings of Romantic Love.
Session III: On the Broken Bindings of Family.
Session IV: On the Broken Bindings of Place.

Led by

Diane Zinna

Diane Zinna

Diane Zinna is the author of the novel The All-Night Sun (Random House, 2020) and Letting Grief Speak: Writing Portals for Life After Loss, a craft book on the art of telling our hardest stories, forthcoming from Columbia University Press in 2024. She has led a free grief writing class called Grief Writing Sundays since the start of the pandemic.

About this series

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