El duelo migratorio: Writing Between Languages, Loss, and Belonging w/ Dr. Egli Colón Stephens, Ed.D

The Emerging Writers Track is designed for writers who are just beginning their journey — finding their voice, building their practice, and discovering the community that will carry them forward.

What do we grieve when we migrate — especially when we leave before we have words for the loss? This bilingual workshop explores migratory grief as both a lived experience and a generative source for writing. Through guided reflection, short readings, and writing prompts, participants will explore displacement, language loss, interrupted memory, and the silences that shape our voices on the page. This workshop especially welcomes writers who feel estranged from Spanish, who live between languages, or who have been made to feel that their words don't belong anywhere. Here, there is no correctness — only permission. Write bilingually, in fragments, or in whatever language arrives first. Leave having reclaimed a little more of what was never meant to be…