Pandemic Reflections: A Free Writing Workshop for all Genres with H.E. Fisher (in-person at HVWC)

PANDEMIC REFLECTIONS is a FREE writing workshop for all genres facilitated by H.E. Fisher, poet, writer, editor, and co-founder of Say Ah!, Inc., a health literacy organization. This workshop invites participants to write about and reflect on the pandemic. Has the pandemic changed us? What has it taught us about ourselves, our friends and family, our community? What image(s) stays with you? Has there been any silver linings? This 1.5 hour workshop allots time for us to stop, think, and write about this global experience.

Using prompts, this generative workshop will allow time for sharing work (for those who’d like to) and reflecting on and discussing the subject. We will also talk about and consider the power of communicating our health-related experiences and why writing about the pandemic matters.

This program is supported by funding from Health Research Inc. (HRI) in collaboration with the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), Bureau of Health Equity and Community Engagement by grant number OT21-2103, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of HRI, NYSDOH, or CDC.

H.E. Fisher is the author of the collection Sterile Field (Free Lines Press, 2022) and chapbook Jane Almost Always Smiles (Moonstone Arts Center Press, 2022). H.E.’s poems have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Psaltery & Lyre, Rogue Agent, Pithead Chapel, DMQ Review, Ligeia Magazine, and Whale Road Review, among other publications. H.E. was awarded City College of New York’s 2019 Stark Poetry Prize and has received nominations for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize, and is a recipient of the Poets Afloat residency and a Rockland County Council for the Arts (ACOR) 2024 Artists Support Fund grant. H.E. is a writing coach and editor, and lives in the Hudson River Valley. https://www.hefisher.com/