What Time has Given: Exploring the Gifts and Challenges of Aging
A writing workshop for women
- What has your body learned that your younger self could not have imagined?
- What have you lost—and what have you quietly gained?
- Where have you become invisible, and where have you never been more yourself?
- What truths are asking to be spoken now, before they harden into silence?
This writing workshop invites women to write into the tender, complicated territory of aging—not as a problem to solve, but as a landscape to enter.
Through carefully shaped prompts and unhurried writing time, we’ll explore the textures of this age: the griefs that arrive without ceremony, the freedoms that come when certain expectations finally loosen their grip, the ways time sharpens both longing and clarity.
We will write:
- About the body as it is now.
- About memory, inheritance, anger, tenderness, and relief.
- About what no longer fits—and what, at last, does.
You don’t need polished stories or answers. You don’t need to be brave in advance.
You only need to be willing to listen for what this season of life is asking you to tell.
We do not yet have any kind of formal grants or funding for these workshops, so we do ask for a modest registration fee. If you cannot afford the $20 registration fee, please reach out to powerofstory@amherstwriters.org to request financial aid to attend these workshops.