The Dark Night of the Soul

INSTRUCTOR: Zen Ase
​TIME: Friday, March 21, 6-9 pm CST/CDT
PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Saturday, March 15. After Saturday, March 15: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here.
LOCATION: Writespace, 1907 Sabine Street, #125, Houston, TX 77007 (map).
LEVEL: All levels
CAP: 15

There's a certain panache to getting your reader to love seeing you put your characters through hell, and a depth of knowledge that comes from being able to channel your personal development into your writing! Join us at this workshop to tap into your deepest thoughts and mold your writing to express both the pain of the human condition and the light that can pull one free from it.

With poetry and prose examples as well as generative exercises to find those nooks and crannies in your soul to pull from, you'll leave this workshop with emotional and writing growth.

Zen Ase spent her adult life married, raising twin sons, and teaching high school in the inner city. Teacher of the Year for AHS in 2011-2012 and 2017-2018, a Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction and a University of Chicago Distinguished Educator, Zen changed her lifeand began a healing journey. That journey led her back to poetry, journaling, and becoming a spoken word artist. By 2020, she had performed at over 50 venues, hosted, and organized over 50 live music, comedy and poetry shows including Laughz and Lyrics. Ase became the Houston organizer for 100,000 Poets for Change, and was honored with a Congressional Award for activism. Her poetry and prose can be found in over a dozen anthologies and magazines including, “ Let’s Talk about Being Human,” “Selfhood,” “Restless,” “Five 2 One magazine”, “Caravel”, and “Switchback”.

Photo by Swapnil Potdar on Unsplash

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

1907 Sabine St, 1907 Sabine Street, Houston, United States