04/10/2026
Seven sunrises. One writing community.
This season, we gathered again - writers, seekers, explorers - to rise early and write through the theme of Devotion.
Each morning invited us to pay attention to what it means to stay in relationship with the page:
to make room for the work,
to return before we felt ready,
to listen for what kept calling us back,
to let ourselves be held when the writing felt heavy,
to claim, “I am a writer”,
and to admit, “I need help”.
We witnessed writers get unstuck.
We watched old stories about who gets to call themselves a writer begin to shift.
We made room for grief, joy, uncertainty, release, and the changing needs of the work.
And, perhaps most importantly, we kept showing up.
On our final morning, one writer gave us the word graduation.
Not because the work was finished, but because something had changed in the relationship to it.
For seven mornings, we moved from the practice of wanting to write to the practice of writing.
That became our clearest understanding of devotion:
~ not performance, but care.
Care for the writer.
Care for the practice.
Care for the words still becoming.
This is what Rise & Write is:
✨ A protected space for women of colour writers to give their words devoted attention
✨ A practice of returning to the page with care, honesty, and curiosity
✨ A community that reminds us we do not have to do the work alone
Thank you to every writer who rose and wrote with us this season.
We’ll gather again January 3–9, 2027.
Till soon.
