Reclaiming the Body

Instructor: Hannah Soyer

A free virtual community workshop. Open to adults and teens. To register and reserve a spot, email us at: adastrawritingproject@gmail.com

We include bodies in writing as a way to ground the reader, allow them to feel what the
narrator or main character is feeling, and make it easier for them to navigate the world we
have created. But what happens when the inclusion of bodies in a piece of text becomes
more than just a signifier of a person, but a subject? Can the physical and tangible be
reclaimed through the non-physical and intangible? What does it mean to write about
bodies, specifically when we come from marginalized identities? Join writer Hannah Soyer
in a workshop that explores these many questions and invites us to create our own bodily
narratives.

Hannah Soyer is a queer disabled writer interested in exploring representations of othered bodies. Her work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Entropy, Mikrokosmos Journal, and Hot Metal Bridge, among other places. She is a cat and chocolate enthusiast, and the founder of This Body is Worthy, a project aimed at celebrating bodies outside of mainstream societal ideals.