The Blaze Beneath: Ecofeminist Inheritance in a Burning World
$25 for one session in November
In this workshop, participants will explore the slow, hidden burn of ecofeminist inheritance through vivid imagery and experimental writing techniques. Rooted in tropical and postcolonial landscapes, we’ll examine how women’s bodies, domestic spaces, and environments carry intergenerational tension: the unspoken, the overgrown, the moulding, and the scorched.
Using a mix of poetic and prose-based exercises, participants will engage with atmosphere, sensory language, and structural experimentation to write into the spaces where memory, climate, and matrilineal legacy intersect. Together we’ll investigate what blazes beneath the surface of place and self, and craft work that holds both beauty and unease.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/ecofeminism
When: 2:00 pm-4:00 pm EST
November 22
$25/ session
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Elizabeth M Castillo is a multilingual British-Mauritian poet, writer, and educator, currently reading for the MSt/MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford. She lives in Paris with her family and two cats, where she writes across genres, languages, and pen names, and runs a number of creative and editorial projects.
Her work explores the themes matrescence, ecofeminism, multilingualism, and the tropical gothic, drawing on the many cultures and countries that shaped her. A two-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, her writing has been published in English, Spanish, and French, and featured in journals and anthologies internationally.
Elizabeth is the author of two critically acclaimed poetry collections: Cajoncito: Poems on Love, Loss, y Otras Locuras and Not Quite An Ocean (Nine Pens Press). She teaches regular workshops for indie writers and provides creative mentoring and editorial services.
You can connect with her on social media @emcwritesthings, or via her website: www.elizabethmcastillo.net.