Nadia Alexis

Workshop Description

In this generative workshop, participants will write new poetry and engage with contemporary poetry and photography that delve into the realms of the self, memory, and ritual. We will enter new doorways and reimagine our understandings of the past, present, and future.

Together, we’ll consider how ritual grounds us, creates sanctuaries, invokes spirit and the sun, makes space for devotion, breaks us into something new, and more.

Fun Fact: The workshop starts on a New Moon! Perfect timing to write into new energy and intention.

Session Details

Dates: Thursdays, Nov 20 – Dec 18 (4 weekly sessions)

Times: 5:30 pm–7:30 pm CST (6:30-8:30 pm EST)

Where: Live on Zoom (sessions will not be recorded)

Who: BIPOC women, femme-identified trans, and nonbinary poets

NOTE: No workshop on Thursday, Nov 27 due to Thanksgiving

Pricing and Registration

Early Bird Price: $225 through Monday, October 27th at 11:59PM CST

Regular Price: $275 starting Tuesday, October 28th

Only 12 spots available. Registration closes on Monday, November 10th, or sooner if all spots are claimed.

Bonus

Register by Oct 17 to receive a bonus packet of prompts and inspiration texts delivered a week before class begins!

Refund Policy

Due to the nature of this offering and limited space, all sales are final and no refunds will be offered.

If you can no longer attend, your seat may be transferred to another participant or applied as credit toward a future workshop. Please get in touch with me directly to make arrangements.

Contact Email: info@bynadiaalexis.com

About Me

Nadia Alexis is a poet, writer, and photographer in Harlem to Haitian immigrants. She is the debut author of the hybrid collection of poetry and photography, Beyond the Watershed (CavanKerry Press, 2025), a finalist for the 2022 Ghost Peach Press Prize in Poetry.

Her writing and photography have been published widely, and she has received honors including a 2025 Literary Arts Fellowship and a 2024 Artist Mini-Grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a 2024 Mississippi STAR Teacher Award, a 2024 Vance Fellowship from the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration, the 2023 Poet of the Year Honoree of the Haitian Creatives Digital Awards, a semifinalist in the 2020 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, a 2020 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography award nomination, and a 2019 honorable mention poetry prize from the Hurston/Wright College Writers Award.

Nadia's photography has been exhibited in several shows in the U.S., Cuba, and virtually at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI). A fellow of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, The Watering Hole, and the Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Publicity Incubator, she holds a PhD and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi. She lives in Mississippi.

Previous Student Workshop Testimonials

“Thank you again for your guidance in the workshop. It filled my soul in a way I didn’t know I needed.”

“The prompts challenged my creative side that had been laying in slumber due to the busyness of life.”

“Thank you again for such an inspiring class and the wonderful and welcoming space you created for us. I really enjoyed how you structured the discussion and engaged with us, both with the gentleness to nudge and let us be.

I especially appreciated the prompts and the choices of photos and poetry to facilitate our discussion, the overall theme, and our creations - plus the resources! SO much gratitude to you and the class."