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Unspoken Ink: Creative Writing

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 writing workshop consists of a weekly writing night attended via online video chat. We will get to know one another in an intimate, small group setting and address issues that transport us from initial diagnosis into the new normal and survivorship.

Where: Online video chat. We’ll send you more information about joining after you register. Please have a microphone headset and a webcam.

Who: Young adult cancer patients, survivors and caregivers.

When: see available sessions in the right-hand sidebar

A commitment to attend each week is important to group continuity and in creating a safe space. Please be on time.

How it works:

  • 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 programs@cactuscancer.org for publication on our Young Adult Voices Blog. This is not mandatory!

Sessions

Mon, Apr 8, 2024
- Mon, Apr 29, 2024
Tue, May 2, 2023
- Tue, Jun 20, 2023
Wed, Jan 25, 2023
- Wed, Mar 15, 2023
Mon, Oct 24, 2022
- Mon, Dec 19, 2022