A 4-Week Online Writing Workshop
About the Workshop
Grief is insurmountable. It alters the way we move through the world: the empty chair takes on a palpable shape, the unfinished message thread holds a permanent wait, a familiar recipe begins to taste different. Loss does not only live in memory; it changes the texture of the everyday.
In The Grief Notebook, we will read writers such as Lidia Yuknavitch, Sumana Roy, Han Kang, and others who write from the difficult terrain of memory and absence. Together, we will explore how grief reshapes language—how fragments of memory, ordinary images, and lived experience can become the starting point for powerful writing.
Each session combines close reading, craft conversation, and generative writing exercises. Participants will experiment with forms such as personal essay, prose fragments, reflective narrative, and lyrical nonfiction, gradually building a small body of work that engages with memory, loss, and transformation.
This is a process-led, generative workshop designed to create a thoughtful and supportive writing space. The cohort is intentionally small so that participants have the time and attention needed to reflect, write, and share their work with care.
Participants will leave the workshop with new drafts, practical approaches to writing about grief and memory, and a deeper understanding of how personal experience can be shaped into language.
About the Facilitator
Aekta Khubchandani is a writer and educator whose debut poetry manuscript, A Glass of Blue, was a finalist for the Rising Writer Prize 2024 (Autumn House Press). She is the winner of the Breakout Prize in Poetry (2022) and The Baltimore Review Winter Poetry Contest, and a finalist for Indiana Review’s Poetry Prize. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction. Her writing appears in journals including Tupelo Quarterly, The Offing, Penn Review, VIDA, Variant Lit, The Bombay Literary Review and elsewhere. Aekta holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, New York, and has taught creative writing at Parsons School of Design, WriteOn NYC, and Girls Write Now, to name a few.
She is currently teaching the Multi-Genre Pathway at Sahab Collective, in Dubai.
Details of the workshop
Dates: 16/04/2026 – 07/05/2026
Timings: 8:00 – 10:00 PM
Fees: INR 11,000
Platform: Zoom
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