Join us for Meeting No. 8 of the 2025-2026 workshop!

This week, we’re examining how figurative language helps us tell the truth of our emotions. Through close reading and guided writing, we’ll explore how simile, metaphor, personification and hyperbole can turn heartbreak, joy, jealousy, and anxiety into imagery that feels alive on the page.

Together, we’ll read and discuss “And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When the Rapture Comes” by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib as a mentor text, studying how internal emotion becomes landscape, color, movement, and memory. Then, writers will craft their own emotion-driven pieces using figurative language.

📚 Mandatory reading: “And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When the Rapture Comes” by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
(Members have access to all readings for the year. Click here to become a member!)

📅 Date: Sunday, February 22, 2026
🕐 Time: 1:00pm (Doors open at 12:45. Grace period ends at 1:15 — no late entry after that!)
📍 Location: 131 Spring Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY
🎟️ RSVP below — spots are limited!

PEER REVIEW SESSION!

The first FIVE members to submit their work via email will have the opportunity to have their piece peer-reviewed during this session. Workshopping will be available at our in-person meetings only. Virtual options are not available at this time.

We hope to see you there <3