Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40)

Step 2: Register for “A Furious Blooming” here

Grief is a door into a different world where we are never the same. How do we write from these new selves? How can we lean into our writing practice to not only survive the storms of grief, but also the storms that are unleashed in those who we grieve alongside? In this workshop, we will find inspiration from writers who’ve broken through the boundary of the wordlessness to write of their grief.

Bushra Rehman is a writer, teaching artist and cultural activist. Rehman’s latest novel Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion (Flatiron Books, 2022) is a coming-of-age story about growing up Muslim and queer in NYC. Rehman co-edited Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism (Seal Press, 2019) and is author of the poetry collection Marianna’s Beauty Salon (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018). Her first novel, the dark comedy Corona (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013), was chosen by the NY Public Library as one of its favorite books about NYC. She was awarded the Queens Public Library Award for contribution to literature on Queens and is founder of the community-based workshop ‘Two Truths and a Lie: Writing Memoir and Autobiographical Fiction.’