The Craft of Disruption / Writing the Rupture

Workshop Description: The Craft of Disruption / Writing the Rupture invites participants to write from the “breakage”—the place(s) where language trembles under the weight of truth. To write the rupture is to confront what systems, silence, and survival have tried to normalize. It is an act of

healing, not because it erases the wound, but because it names it with courage and clarity. Together we will explore how disruption in form and voice can open new pathways to wholeness, how to use language as both surgical tools and salves. This is writing that disturbs the comfortable and comforts the disturbed, that insists art must not only move hearts but move people toward justice. Participants will engage in guided readings, discussion, and generative exercises that turn rupture into revelation—writing that does not flinch, writing that frees.

About the Presenter: Desiree McCray (she/they) entered the world, hailing from Chicago, Illinois. As a…