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Reviewing Grief in the Archives

Reviewing Grief in the Archives

January 21, 2026

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Maine Women Writers Collection

Join us on Wednesday, January 21, 2026 for a writing workshop led by 2025 MWWC Creative Fellow Maya Williams. Participants will review the work of Sarah Orne Jewett, Donna M. Loring, Annie Finch, and Emily Taylor Perkins and then spend some time writing poetry about grief. Free and open to the public. Maya Williams (ey/they/she) [...]

living w ghosts / Devon Kelley-Yurdin

living w ghosts

October 20, 2019

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

MWWC, Abplanalp Library, Portland Campus

"living w ghosts" will be the culminating event of Devon Kelley-Yurdin’s time as Creative Fellow at the Maine Women Writers Collection. We will hear from Devon about their time in the archive and where that process led, and we will collectively explore a range of memory practices with the purpose of creating an “archive” of [...]