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Previous Writing Circles
What past participants had to say
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Apr-May 2024​
6th Apr Sat | Connection
“open the hand and give me the sweet dirty crumb / or give me perhaps the tender heart that sustains you” — Idea Vilariño, “Alms”
13th Apr Sat | Freedom
“see how light that meadow is / not wanting to be other”
— Eva Ribich, from the poetry collection “Along the border”
20th Apr Sat | Courage
“This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.”
— Terence McKenna
27th Apr Sat | Release
“and then she was gone / and then she was growing”
— Naomi Novik, “Uprooted”
4th May Sat | Wonder
“I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Farthest Shore”
11th May Sat | Mystery
“I made myself a vessel. I know its shape. But not the clay. Life danced me. I know the dances. But I don't know who the dancer is.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, “Tehanu”
18th May Sat | Remember
“Words seldom stand alone / like us, they are encircled / by the spirits of their ancestors.”
— Yahia Lababidi, “Ancestors”
25th May Sat | Rest
"Be kind to your sleeping heart. / Take it out in the vast field of light / And let it breathe."
— Hafiz, “Awake Awhile”
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Aug-Oct 2023
26th Aug Sat | Mask
“Sometimes I wear a second self / to move in places strange.”
– Stacy Ooi, A Second Self.
2nd Sept Sat | Awakening
“She’s breaking, cracking open to the white, bright nothingness of sunlight.”
– Nicola Davies, The Song That Sings Us.
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9th Sept Sat | Threshold
“A very little key will open a very heavy door.” – Charles Dickens, Hunted Down.
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16th Sept Sat | Authenticity
“It does not need to be perfect – or technically correct – to be magic.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru
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23rd Sept Sat | Laughter
"If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is." — Charles Bukowski, Factotum.
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30th Sept Sat | Sing, Speak, Spin
“She is ideas, feelings, urges, and memory. She has been lost and half forgotten for a long, long time. She is the source, the light, the night, the dark, and daybreak. She is the smell of good mud and the back leg of the fox. The birds which tell us secrets belong to her. She is the voice that says, ‘This way, this way.’” – Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves.
7th Oct Sat | Silence
“The highest things are beyond words.” — Ben Okri, Birds of Heaven.
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14th Oct Sat | Peace
“Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem.” – Sandra Cisneros, A House on Mango Street.
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Feb-Apr 2023
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25th Feb Sat | Why Tell Stories?
“I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.” – Alice Walker
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4th Mar Sat | Listen
”Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you / Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, / And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, / Must ask permission to know it and be known.” – David Wagoner, Here.
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11th Mar Sat | Wayfinding
“I had a dream, which was not all a dream, / The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the stars / Did wander darkling in the eternal space, / Rayless and pathless, and the icy earth / Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air.” – Lord Byron, Darkness. ​
18th Mar Sat | Intuition
“If I'd heard every word / Or read every line upon the shelf / I'd still need a message to myself” – Roo Panes, A Message To Myself.
25th Mar Sat | Transformation
“[Her] voice was a river, and I was stone, and every syllable reshaped me.” – Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways. ​
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1st Apr Sat | The Right to Speak
“Because I have a right to be heard; I have a voice!” – The King’s Speech. ​
8th Apr Sat | Enough
“You do not have to be good. / You do not have to walk on your knees / for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. / You only have to let the soft animal of your body / love what it loves.” – Mary Oliver, Wild Geese.
15th Apr Sat | Hope
“But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.” ― Billy Collins, Tuesday, June 4th, 1991.
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