Write Where You Are: A Heart-Centered Journey Through Grief and Transformation with Nina Love

Designed for those experiencing grief—whether fresh or lingering—this workshop is intended to be a haven for anyone seeking to reclaim writing as a tool for healing, self-expression, and self-determination. It's an open invitation to those who have longed to write but have struggled to find the time or space to do so.

In this session, we’ll work together to:  

• Cultivate trust in our creative instincts

• Explore the healing potential of words

• Celebrate the artist within each of us

Through prompts inspired by colors, emotions, and diverse writing genres, this generative workshop creates a space where participants can reconnect with their inner voice, tap into their resilience, and discover how writing can transform their state of being, one moment at a time. 

About the Instructor:

Nina Love is a writer, thinker, lover and artist. She has been writing since she was young but truly became a storyteller while she was in college. The first story that allowed her to see herself as a writer was a fantasy story between two of her friends at the time in college that turned into an anthology of erotic stories created from characters in her own life.
Love earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Community Based Public Health in 2018 and life brought her down the path of becoming a full-time caregiver to her mother, Lexine Vera Darden, for the next four years. It was at this time that Nina began to write short stories, books, screenplays, poems, unlocking gifts within herself and transmuting them into stories. Nina’s most beloved genres are fiction, erotica, fantasy, and poetry.
Nina is inspired to write from her experience being a Black woman and a soul on this earth. These two realities shape much of what she writes and why she teaches: to free Black women, femmes and people from the chains that keep us from writing and expressing.
Love has created and taught several workshops including: Poetry is Not a Luxury inspired by Audre Lorde’s essay, and Lighting the Writer’s Fire: Erotica As a Tool for Liberation, centering the Black womanhood experience to uplift and free our experiences from our minds by writing them down.
She is also inspired by the greats of our time, Lexine Vera Darden, her mother who was also a writer, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, Gayle Jones, and singer, songwriter Nina Simone. After losing her mother to Multiple Sclerosis in 2022, Nina has been on a journey of deep grief and reclamation of her purpose to write. It is through the practice of writing that she renews this purpose again and again, and she deeply intends to inspire others to do the same.

This event will be held in Zoom. By registering for this class, you agree to follow the Clarion West Code of Conduct and Zoom policies. 

About Our Community Classes:
 

Community classes are offered at low cost and with additional sliding scale options to enable access to high-quality writing instruction, regardless of your economic circumstance. Please choose the ticketing price that best supports your circumstances.

Limited Free Seating: 

We offer a percentage of seats in every class to People of the Global Majority (Asian, Black, African, Latina/o/x, Middle Eastern, Indigenous, Pacific Islander, and/or have been racialized as 'ethnic minorities') for free, regardless of financial need. 

Eligible folks should complete this form to enter the lottery for free seats.  If a seat is available, we will email you 7-10 days before the class begins. For more information, see our equity and inclusion policies.