Classes
Grief + the Holidays: Writing a New Narrative – New! Adults (18+)
Reframe your narrative around grief to create new holiday traditions and memories. Writing can spark positive memories and meaning around loss. Using short readings and prompts, we’ll move from memory to the page, exploring how loss has reshaped your traditions. This is a generative workshop; we’ll be writing as we go. You’ll leave with helpful strategies to navigate the holidays and stories you can share with your loved ones.
Special Notes
Accessibility notes: Many artmaking processes require the ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time, fine motor skills/finger dexterity, repetitive motions, vision, and some amount of physical strength. VisArts values making classes accessible to everyone, and is always happy to work with students to make accommodations when possible. Please reach out to [email protected] with specific questions related to accessibility or accommodations.
If under 18, student must be accompanied by a registered adult. Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
About the Instructor
Shannon O'Neill
Shannon Fara O'Neill is a writer, grief educator and director of Richmond Story House. Her writing has appeared in Seventh Wave, Glimmer Train, Asian American Literary Review (AALR) and Mizna among others. Her recent essays and blog, A Moveable Grief, explore how grief and trauma reshape our identity. She has received fellowships and scholarships to attend the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (VCCA), Eckerd College Writers’ Conference: Writers in Paradise, the Key West Literary Seminar and Workshop. Shannon earned her MFA in Fiction at Virginia Commonwealth University.