Writing Connects Us & Heals Generational Wounds
Dr. ZELDA LOCKHART is a current Fulbright Specialist engaging in cross-cultural story projects for generational healing in the U.S. and abroad. She holds a PhD in Expressive Art Therapies, an MA in Literature, and a certificate in writing, directing and editing from the NY Film Academy. Her work as an author and expressive arts consultant and educator centers on the power of story and nature to connect us across barriers and to heal our generations. She is winner of the Lambda Literary Foundation 2024 Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-career Novelist Prize. Her books include HarperCollins 2023 release Trinity (a novel) translated and released by HarperCollins France 2024 as Entends ma voix. Her other works include The Soul of the Full-Length Manuscript: Turning Life’s Wounds into the Gift of Literary Fiction, Memoir, or Poetry. Her other novels are Fifth Born which was a Barnes & Noble Discovery selection and a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award finalist, Cold Running Creek a Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Fiction award winner, and Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle a 2011 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Lockhart is Director at Her Story Garden Studios: Inspiring Black Women to Self-Define, Heal, and Liberate Through Our Stories & Nature. She is a dynamic speaker and educator who travels the US and abroad utilizing story and nature to inspire individuals to heal, maintain healthy relationships, lead effectively, and work productively and gracefully in community.
Nov. 7-9th 201 W Main St. Durham
Black Southern Writer's Conference
Register for the whole weekend &
Join Dr. Zelda Lockhart on Nov. 8th:
* 11am"Crafting Black Fantasy Futures" with
C. M. Lockhart & Nicole Glove
* 3pm"So You Want to Own a Black Biz" with
Ty McDuffie & C. M. Lockhart
* 4pm Bk Signing
Saturday, Nov. 15th 9am - 1pm ET
The Holiday Healing Essay
Via Zoom
Saturday Nov. 15th 9am-1pm ET
Time to do something positive with those Holiday memories by using them to chart your path to new Holiday traditions, and make some literature on the way. Join me for this healing adventure where we will read some Holiday stories by other writers and write from some soulful prompts.
Write to Heal through your personal plot This Winter
The Full-Length Manuscript Workshop
12 Tuesdays January 6th - March 24th, 2026
6-9pm EDT
Join me for a journey taken by many women including myself. I take this journey of personal plot over and over first for the sake of healing and growing and second to gift to others the byproduct of story.
In this 12 week women's writing intensive, participants will be guided through the process of writing the first draft of a full-length memoir, novel or collection of poems using Dr. Zelda Lockhart’s book The Soul of the Full-Length Manuscript Turning Life’s Wounds Into the Gift of Literary Fiction, Memoir or Poetry. The writing journey becomes the stepping stones of personal transformation that lead to the first draft of a full-length manuscript. This workshop is a commitment of time, trust, and transformation.
All workshops will be taught from a #Blackfeminist perspective that prioritizes community building, mutual respect, and Black women's ways of knowing.
What's Expressive Writing? – Expressive Writing is a way to investigate your feelings, emotions, thoughts and your relationships with others through all genres of writing and storytelling. I believe this includes sharing and listening to or consuming stories in healing reciprocity.
$800 (Payment Plan Available thru Paypal)
