Writing Memoir: the transformative power of personal writing
The courage, audacity and grace of telling the story of you. Join the Ochre Sky Memoir workshop with Natasha Badhwar and Raju Tai
The memoir writing workshop with Natasha Badhwar and Raju Tai is a portal. A magical step closer to yourself, a place where memories come back offering meaning and perspective.
The memoir writing workshop is a doorway to our innermost parts, where joy lives next to shame. We write stories that help us befriend both, offering them a safe space to peek out and reveal themselves.
We are a community of writers, thinkers, feelers, makers. A party of introverted, self-taught, creative people recovering their gifts. We are so different, but also, we are startled by how much we have in common.
The memoir writing workshop is home. It is the place we find when our subconscious leads us to it.
Welcome.
Join us in December, for the last workshop of 2024. Write with us. Experience the transformative power of personal writing first hand.
Join the list of participants who will write with us in 2025. Give yourself the gift you deserve.
Our Story:
When writer and filmmaker
created the memoir workshop in December 2021, she had little idea what was in store. When talented writers showed up for a writing workshop, she understood that they have come to write in a new way, from a new place. Learning to write was more about learning to listen, to memories and daydreams.In June 2022,
joined the workshop as a participant. She too had no idea, that writing memoir will free her in more ways than one. That soon she will collaborate with Natasha on a workshop for young adults. And then co-faciliate the memoir writing workshops, June 2023 onwardsTogether, we have worked with almost 400 writers across 19 memoir workshops, 5 writing circles, 6 shorter workshops, 6 offline workshops, and too many one-on-one sessions to count.
We have not only had published authors, scholars, journalists amongst us, but exceptional artists, filmmakers, therapists, performers, teachers and students. Each plunging into their lived experience, memories, and desires to craft evocative essays, poems, stories, songs, and spoken word performances.
Through writing, we are confronting various taboos of South Asian society, finding resilience, and forging new friendships. Our writers have been published and featured in books and reputed platforms like Newsweek, Beautiful Things, HT Premium, Journal d'Ambroisie, Indian Express and FemAsia. Some of our writers have published books, others are in the process of publishing them.
92 of us are here on Substack, and we are pretty sure more than 8 writers are on the verge of starting their own newsletters. We have shared more than 250 essays on Stories that Demand to Be Told, our weekly curation of the best essays shared by Ochre Sky writers.
In the pipeline: an anthology series, a podcast, more offline writing workshops.
We can’t wait to add you to our story.
Testimonials:
In the Ochre Sky workshops and the writing circle, I discovered purpose in my own forgotten stories. I learned that my authentic voice is my craft. And I started to build a rich inner life with the remarkable cohort of writers who wrote, cried, and laughed together. The Ochre Sky workshop is one of the most nurturing spaces I have experienced. Here, every writer is witnessed and celebrated.
~ Manisha Gupta
I am finally beginning to believe in myself. and moving towards an acceptance of myself as a writer. I can feel something as a shift, the earth moving, gurgitating, like a dog digging into the earth- a shifting of an artist, writer, poet, of an art maker.
— Gurpreet
This workshop has woken me up into another consciousness. That Pooja can be this way also. It also surprises me how seamlessly this writing has fit into my already crazy full life. There seems to be an inevitability to this which I should be brave enough to explore.
— Pooja Chandra
About the Facilitators
Natasha Badhwar is a writer, teacher and film-maker. She is the author of My Daughters' Mum and Immortal For A Moment and is visiting faculty at the Media Studies and Creative Writing department at Ashoka University.
Natasha’s books:
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Raju Tai
Raju Tai is a writer, facilitator, and creativity coach.
Her poems and essays have been published in various platforms and anthologies.
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Write to us at ochre.sky.workshops@gmail.com
Love,
Natasha and Raju
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Wow!! Ab kaise koi nahi join karega! 🩵😍
would you be conducting this workshop in January also?