So We Can Know: A Generative Writing Workshop with Mahogany Browne

This generative writing workshop, inspired by the forthcoming anthology So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth, brings together women and birthing people with a range of reproductive health experiences, from pregnancy and childbirth to abortion and loss, to share their stories in a supportive environment. We particularly encourage people of color to participate.

The Workshop will be led by award-winning writer and experienced facilitator Mahogany L. Browne.

Mahogany L. Browne, selected as Kennedy Center's Next 50 and Weseleyan's 2022-23 Distinguished Writer-in-Residence,  the Executive Director of JustMedia, Artistic Director of Urban Word, a writer, playwright, organizer, & educator. Browne has received fellowships from Arts for Justice, Air Serenbe, Cave Canem, Poets House, Mellon Research & Rauschenberg. She is the author of recent works: Vinyl Moon, Chlorine Sky, Woke: A Young Poets Call to Justice, Woke Baby, & Black Girl Magic. Founder of the diverse lit initiative Woke Baby Book Fair, Browne's latest poetry collection Chrome Valley is a promissory note to survival and available from Norton Spring 2023. As she readies for her stage debut of Chlorine Sky at Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, Illinois, she drinks coffee while living in Brooklyn, NY. She is the first ever poet-in-residence at Lincoln Center. 

What is a generative workshop? 

A generative workshop gives you a prompt or exercise, an opportunity to generate the beginning of new writing. Much like a map that suggests a route, a generative workshop offers you a way to write about a memory or subject that interests you. Occasionally, a generative workshop gives you a great story or poem, but more often you might write a line or paragraph that excites you, a clue to follow toward something larger. Above all, a workshop gives you a chance to be with people who have a similar interest in writing.