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Parenthood is a radical experience that often comes with huge shifts in identity, lifeways, and our understandings of what it means to be alive, in community, raising humans. As writers, we come to the page to process, analyze, and make meaning of our experiences, and yet parenthood (certainly early parenthood) leaves little room for the kind of reflection that literary work demands.

This generative seminar will serve as a space to consider where your work as a writer and your life as a parent intersect. We will think together about how to work with these intersections, considering where they make the work more challenging and what we can do to navigate those challenges, as well as where they make the work richer and what we can do to pull from that well.

If you are or have been a parent or caregiver, this space is for you. Biological, adoptive, step, grand, kinship, loss, infertility parents: I welcome you. This class warmly welcomes parents and caregivers of all genders.

Mark your calendars. No registration required.

Click here to read more about Writer-in-Resident Margo Steines and the Writer-in-Residence program

The Writer in Residence Program is made possible by the Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records, a division of the Secretary of State, with federal funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.