Writing about Grief and Loss with Alexandra Hewett

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Lifelong Learning LogoCourse Title: Writing about Grief and Loss

Instructor:  Alexandra Hewett

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October 28, 2024 - December 02, 2024 (6 Sessions)  

Monday,  6:30PM ET - 8:30PM ET  

Virtual via Zoom 

 

 

Course Description: Grief is something we all experience in our lives and writing about it can help with the grieving process and even be healing and cathartic. Sometimes it’s possible to find humor through writing about this difficult topic. 

In the class, we will focus on reading excerpts from nonfiction works about grief by Joan Didion, Sloan Crosley, Isabelle Allende, and Zadie Smith. Participants will write an essay about a personal experience of grief and loss, workshop each other’s essays in class, and revise their essays based on the feedback given during class.

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ABOUT Alexandra Hewett

Alexandra Hewett is an actor, storyteller, writer, producer, teaching artist, mother, and yogi. She produces the storytelling show Mortified in DC and Baltimore. She wrote and performed her one-woman show Mother Therapy at MCS Theatre in NYC. She has performed at The Manhattan Rep Theatre, DC Fringe Festival, the Kennedy Center, the Baltimore Improv Group, the Magnet Theatre in NYC, and the Strand Theater in Baltimore. She has an MS in Counseling Psychology from Loyola University Maryland and an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore. Her essays have been published by Eight Stone Press, Baltimore Fishbowl, and Welter. Shimmer is her first book.

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 Event Date
Starts:
Monday, October 28, 2024
6:30pm EDT

Ends:
Monday, December 2, 2024
8:30pm EDT

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