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Character Driven: A workshop with Katherin Garland, on Saturday, February 21st, 2026

Master 5 Strategies to Develop Your Character-Driven Narrative

Oct 27, 2025 • Literary Liberation and K E Garland

✍🏾 Writing My Grandmother into Being: The Art of Honest Characterization

Mastering character-driven narrative techniques helped Katherin Garland tell the truth about her grandmother while showing love and accountability.

Dec 4, 2025 • K E Garland and Literary Liberation

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🔍 ARTIST CHAT: Katherin Garland dives in more about her upcoming February workshop, CHARACTER DRIVEN

Ten spots left!

Feb 5 • Sherisa de Groot, Literary Liberation, K E Garland, and Emma Akpan

We want your workshop proposals!

We're building something luminous for 2026, and we want you in it.

Dec 17, 2025 • Literary Liberation, Sherisa de Groot, and Shawna Ayoub

NOURISH: a mutual aid project

help us raise $25k to help feed our friends and neighbors!

Nov 14, 2025 • Sherisa de Groot, Literary Liberation, Shawna Ayoub, Emma Akpan, Open Secrets Magazine, Crystal Tennille Irby, Cassandra Lane, Camille Wanliss, DW McKinney, Traci Thomas, and Memoir Land

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