Sherisa de Groot

A Home Within Myself | Sherisa de Groot | Substack How to find and love the home within yourself. Essays & conversations on love, parenthood, identity, culture, midlife, relationships and Blackness from a first-generation American elder millennial imm...

I plan on making a tiny bit of effort here. Clap for me. If you need something to read, try these: Sherisa.substack.com, literaryliberation.substack.com, and raisingmothers.substack.com

They Tried to Take My Words. I Fought to Get Them Back. This essay is the first in a collaborative series between Memoir Land and Literary Liberation, Sherisa De Groot's excellent publication, featuring stories about writing as a transformative and liberat...

“My writing, once a liberatory microphone, was now a stick of dynamite, waiting to blow up my case at the touch of a flame.” - at Memoir Land, Iris (Yi Youn) Kim with the first in a collaborative series with @sherisa.bsky.social's Literary Liberation.

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Our submissions are wide open this year at Raising Mothers! Send us your best work! Read our guidelines first.

HOME | Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (MVICW) is a nonprofit organization founded on the belief that writers flourish best in communities based in compassion rather than competition. Each year we host a conference where writers from around the country meet other authors & develop their craft.

Attention parent-writers: MVICW (@mvicw) is offering 2 fully funded fellowships to the 2025 Martha's Vineyard Summer Writers Conference.

Learn more and apply at: mvicw.com

Jan 12!! Register now. It’s pay what you can

Workshop Calendar Upcoming Workshops & Courses | JAN 2025

We have a few workshops still happening this month at @literaryliberation.bsky.social & would love help spreading the word!

literaryliberation.substack.com/p/workshops-... with special attention to AFTER BIRTH (Jan 12), UNDER YOUR SKIN (Jan 14), and DO IT ANYWAY (Jan 18)

Who are these random men??

Priscilla Thomas reminds us that living in a world that constantly fragments our physical experience, writers often overlook the profound creative potential residing within their bodies.

Read “The Embodied Writer” & register for UNDER YOUR SKIN.

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Read “Staying Present: Moving Beyond Good/Bad to the Heart of the Story” by Sarah Dalton & then sign up for her workshop, AFTER BIRTH: POSTPARTUM NARRATIVES on Jan 12.

literaryliberation.substack.com/p/after-birt...

Special note: this workshop is pay-what-you-can

My internal clock feels out of it. I’m no longer hungry in the mornings (after a lifetime being the opposite) but this week so far I’m ravenous and I’m ready for bed by 3p. No second or third winds. Is this a new phase of #perimenopause?

Raising Mothers | Sherisa | Substack Writing ourselves back to the center. Celebrating & centering the parenting and personal narratives of the Global Majority since 2015. Click to read Raising Mothers, by Sherisa, a Substack publication...

Be sure to follow @raisingmothers.bsky.social, a literary platform founded by @sherisa.bsky.social that amplifies the global majority and advocates for social justice and equity.
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This season, gift yourself something real: your own creative potential. Invest in YOU.

You are the gift.Your voice is the present.Your stories are waiting.

No discount code required. Just your commitment.

Your words can’t wait. Register for our workshops at literaryliberation.net

Tiffanie Drayton: Demon slayer, here we come Tiffanie Drayton sits in the Literary Mama guest chair with Amanda Fields, Holly Rizzuto Palker, and Brianna Avenia-Tapper to discuss her memoir Black American Refugee, abusive relationships, racism a...

"America has been unmasked."

Tiffanie Drayton, author of Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream, discusses abuse, racism, & the family court system w @ajfields.bsky.social @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social & Brianna Avenia-Tapper.
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It is the most frustrating!!! My app won’t work but I text my husband and it works on his phone. They don’t care.

It's All in The Breath: Embodying Your Creative Self | 3 hours A 1-day workshop led by Leonora Simonovis

They’re LIVE!
In this 3 hour, online workshop with Leonora Simonovis, explore how mindful breathing and art can deepen your writing practice with greater clarity and ease. Learn more about this and all of our January workshops at the link in bio or literaryliberation.substack.com/p/its-all-in...

So I’m going to talk about perimenopause a lot bc, well, life.
I was asthmatic as a child for a brief time until around 12 or so. Now in my 40s I’m suddenly suffering again. I’ve been having attacks all weekend. What is this fresh hell?
I’m not someone who curses new stages of life but come on!

Not at all lol

Sunset at the track last week. Dark purple and pink sky mixed with deep grey clouds that almost resembled a runners leg.

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

We are Raising Mothers. A literary platform exclusively centering the parenting and personal narratives of the Global majority since 2015.
We are writing ourselves back to the center. Won’t you join us?

raisingmothers.substack.com

a world full of blinders Too many people make a transcontinental move to 'escape' the dangers of America, only to ignore everything in the land they now call home.

My latest for A Home Within Myself. I have always been relationship obsessed, but not in a romantic sense. I’m tired of existing in spaces where I can’t be me because of circumstance.

sherisa.substack.com/p/a-world-fu...

An introduction. I’m the founder of @raisingmothers.bsky.social & @literaryliberation.bsky.social. A mother. A writer. An editor. A first gen Black American immigrant living in Europe. Never call me an expat. I’m always liberation minded. Very Jamaican. Veg/vegan 19 yrs. Very Aquarius. Hi.

Lol thank you for literally answering the call.

Welcome to the mutha of all updates! FIVE new workshops for your writerly selves all happening JAN 2025, a new FAQ page & more! This was a busy ass week for us & it’s all paid off.

Get into it & tell a friend!
Paid subscribers can register now; doors open Nov 21 to gen pub.

Literaryliberation.net

Subscribe to Literary Liberation A community of artists, writers, and activists across multiple creative concentrations working towards our collective liberation. Stay radical. Click to read Literary Liberation, by Sherisa, a Substac...

We are Literary Liberation. A community for writers, artists & activists across multiple creative concentrations working towards our collective liberation.

Join us as monthly ($12), annual ($120), or founding ($165) subscribers. Membership increases Jan 1.

literaryliberation.net

Okay. How am I gonna find everyone. Putting out the bat signal for Black women writers and the readers who love them