Upcoming Workshops & events
London Writer's Cafe Workshop Dramatic Tension & the Core of Hope vs. Fear
Dramatic Tension and the Core of Hope vs. Fear
w/ Dr Zelda Lockhart
Thursday, September 22, 2021
1:30 – 3:30pm EDT (6:30 – 8:30pm London time)
Online Hosted by
London Writer’s Café
What's a great story without nail-biting dramatic tension? We all need our readers to want to keep turning those pages, right? Here at LWC we're dedicated to bringing you talented voices in fiction, able to share their craft wisdom in fresh and engaging ways. Zelda Lockhart will lead participants through interactive craft exercises with feedback and discussion, to help us explore realistic, authentic dramatic tension for our fictional characters; creating compelling stories readers just can't put down.
After you RSVP you'll see a link in the event location box. Just click on this at the time and date of the workshop. Zoom will then automatically connect your computer to the session. If you have any problems, just cut and paste the link into your browser. If this still doesn't work then type In the number at the end of the link to the ‘join’ button in Zoom.
Costs: £20, please follow the steps to pay via PayPal when you RSVP. and Refunds will only be offered if the meetup is cancelled by admin, no exceptions, and in the rare event of speakers cancelling, we reserve the right to provide an alternative but equivalent speaker.
Download the Meetup app to manage your RSVPs on the go: https://www.meetup.com/londonwriterscafe/ and PLEASE DO CHANGE YOUR RSVP BY CLICKING THE CROSS IF YOU FIND YOU CAN NO LONGER ATTEND ONCE BOOKED. Many thanks :
Black Women's Write In Nature Hike
There are things in nature that communicate with our inner knowing, with our body, and our heart that we can not experience from behind a closed window. There is the smell of the rain, the texture of mud and the sound it makes beneath our boots, the sun on the nape of our neck warming every level of our spine and sending life through our central nervous system offering health and well-ness to the proteins in our DNA. And oh the discoveries; there is the smell of that plant that you didn't know was wild ginger.
Saturday October 2nd
1-3pm
Duke Forest
Couch Mountain Trail Gate 11
Rain or shine I will take you on a trek through the woods social distanced with our masks on, our journals in hand and our sense of adventure primed to discover through the "Noticing the Minutia Ceremony" from my work-in-progress Recollect: A Black Woman's Creative Journey to Decolonize Mind, Body & Soul. This is limited to 5 participants. The fee is $25. We will stroll and notice for a mile then sit and write with prompting, then turn ourselves around and head back. You must wear a mask at all times. Bring your water and your walking shoes.
Black Women Writing Memoir - 9 mo. Workshop 18 Sessions
This 9-month workshop with 18 sessions is designed to guide Black women through the healing, self-defining, liberating ceremonies of Zelda's memoir writing practice in order to reconcile your life so that you reconcile your purpose. It is designed to help you heal your wounds so that you manifest your gifts and reconnect with the omniscient wise woman you are.
Select from the In Person or Online option :
- In Person - 1st & 3rd Sunday’s 2-3:30pm beginning October 3, 2021 ending June 19, 2022.We’ll meet on the heated screened porch and the heated open-air den at Her Story Garden Studios. Bring your own snack and drink as COVID reality doesn’t permit for the days when we broke bread together. Limited to 6 participants.
- Online - 2nd & 4th Wednesday 6-7:30pm EDT beginning October 13, 2021 ending June 22, 2022 via Zoom. Join from wherever you are across the Diaspora. Limited to 10 participants.
Fee: $1350 (This fee has been reduced from $1,800 to accommodate for financial hardships due to COVID). Fee can be paid in total upon registration or through monthly payments of $150. Payment plan requires a deposit of your first 2 months payments.
Please register and make your payment online at www.HerStoryGardenStudios.com via the "Workshops & Events" tab.
Online Reading of New Release Mama Bear by Shirley Smith with Zelda Lockhart
Reading sponsored by
Her story Garden Studios
Sunday Oct. 24rd.
2pm via Zoom
(must register to receive link)
Join us for a reading by Shirley Smith of this beautiful memoir, Mama Bear: One Black Mother's Fight for Her Child's Life and Her Own, co-written by Zelda Lockhart. After the reading Zelda will discuss this compelling story with its author Shirley Smith and take questions from the audience. Brave. Compelling. Provocative. ” — Gabrielle Union Wade
A chronicle of Black Women’s resilience and healing around pre-term birth. A story of love—a celebration of community, family, faith, the maternal bond, and one woman’s indomitable spirit.
Also Visit Zelda Lockhart at:
Her Story Garden Studios
Her Story Garden Studios
Her Story Garden Studios
At Her Story Garden Studios Black women take writing workshops with Zelda and other facilitators on 3.5 acres of land where the organic garden and the writing workshops help participants to self-define, heal, and liberate..
LaVenson Press
Her Story Garden Studios
Her Story Garden Studios
LaVenson Press is devoted to helping women and girls of color take ownership of their stories through publication. To that end, LaVenson Press hosts publishing workshops, and publishes a yearly literary magazine and anthologies that highlights the poetry, memoir, and fiction of women and girls of color.