Our online, Unspoken Ink: Creative Writing Workshop is designed to take you on a journey through your cancer diagnosis and into your survivorship with a small group of your young adult cancer patient/survivor peers. Each 8-week Writing Workshop consists of a weekly writing night attended via online video chat. We will get to know one another in an intimate, 18-person setting and address issues that transport us from initial diagnosis into the new normal and survivorship.
Unspoken Ink Express is a one-night version of the full, Unspoken Ink Workshop!
Where:Â Online video chat. Please have a microphone headset and a webcam.
Who: Young adult cancer patients/survivors and young adult cancer caregivers.
Cactus Cancer Society (formerly Lacuna Loft) considers anyone diagnosed with cancer, at any stage of the experience, to be a survivor!
When:Â Thursday, October 21st, 3:30-5:30 pm PT / 5:30-7:30 pm CT / 6:30-8:30 pm ET.
How does it work? Sign up on our program list using the link below, choosing ‘Unspoken Ink Writing Workshop’ as one of the programs for which you’d like notifications. Cactus Cancer Society (formerly Lacuna Loft) will send you a few days before the workshop with information on how to join the video chat. ***You’ll need the link that we’ll provide you, a headset with a microphone, and a webcam.***
Extra Info:
- This workshop uses the Amherst Writing and Artists (AWA) Method. The facilitator provides a writing prompt and you can use that prompt in any way you’d like to create a story over a set amount of time. Once we’ve finished our writing (yes, the facilitator writes too!), everyone is given the opportunity to read their writing out loud. Though sharing is optional, hearing your own story and hearing someone else’s, teaches us about our experiences and our stories. Once the piece is read, we reflect on the writing – what did we like, what stood out, what did we remember. Everything is considered fiction so we do not respond to the writer as a support group may, but keep the focus on the writing.
- Sometimes the prompts are about cancer, sometimes indirectly related to cancer, and sometimes not about cancer at all. Above all, the writing program emphasizes that we are more than a diagnosis.
- Following each weekly evening, you may decide to submit your writing to Mallory (mallory@cactuscancer.org) for publication in the Young Adult Voices program section. This is not mandatory!