Writers With Attitude Presents: Audre Lorde's Caribbean Roots & Becoming

Calling All Writers & Creatives 🗣️

This year, our theme is Writing Across the Diaspora, where we're reading works by writers who highlight the joys and hardships of their cultural upbringing, experiment with a range of literary forms, and explore how ancestry and tradition shape our understanding of one's identity.

We're continuing our literary series with “Audre Lorde’s Caribbean Roots & Becoming.” In Chapter 11 of her biomythography, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, we’ll read and discuss how Lorde draws upon Caribbean culinary rituals, embodied memories, and her mother’s teachings to preserve traditions and navigate her sense of identity, sexuality, and womanhood. Through her intimate reflections in the kitchen, we’ll see how the tensions between familial expectations and personal autonomy shape her journey of self-discovery.

Each meeting offers writers the chance to engage in literary discussion, a writing activity and peer review.

Writers have the option of workshopping their writing. Personal works to be workshopped must be inspired by the theme, “Writing Across the Diaspora” and be within 3 pages. Genres of works accepted for peer review include poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction and essays. No screenplays.

📚 Mandatory Readings:

Chapter 11, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

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Date: Sunday, October 25, 2026
Time: 3:00pm — Doors open at 2:45pm (please arrive earlier to settle in!)
Location: Clubhouse Café, 812 River Avenue, Bronx, NY 10451

RSVP is required—spots are limited!

Info: Writers arrive and order a drink or pastry and settle in. Writers can catch up on any readings for the workshop.

Info: Writers view a presentation guiding them to discuss the readings of the day. We analyze and chat about the readings and how it ties to the focus of the workshop.

Info: Writers engage in a writing activity based on the topic of the workshop. Writing prompts are inspired by the author(s) we're discussing that day and the theme of the overall workshop.

Info: Writers share their written pieces. Writers can share works written in response to the writing prompt or share their own personal writing pieces. If writers share any personal pieces, they must align with the theme this year, Writing Across the Diaspora. They also must be within 3 pages and be short fiction, creative nonfiction, or an essay. No screenplays.

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