Long Night's Journey into Day: Writing About Serious Illness

Writing through and about serious illness can not only create powerful poems, memoirs, and fiction, but it can help us integrate and learn from our experiences as patients, survivors, and caregivers. We'll explore how and when to write about our experiences through innovative writing prompts, narrative medicine resources, and steady practices that steer us away from retriggering ourselves and toward insights, wholeness, and resilience. We’ll investigate approaches to widen our perspective and give us the appropriate distance to write powerful poetry and prose while also concentrating on original, vibrant, and enduring specifics in our writing.