Your Body, Your Story: Writing Pregnancy and Delivery

This seminar will be co-taught by Monica Benevides and Nora Corrigan. Please visit our Instructors page to read more about Monica and Nora.

GrubStreet’s Your Body, Your Story series focuses on nonfiction writing about pregnancy, abortion, and miscarriage through a reproductive justice lens. Classes in this series are being offered at reduced prices, or at no cost. Full scholarships are available, and a portion of the tuition will be donated to We Testify, a nonprofit organization that supports abortion storytellers. Classes in the Your Body, Your Story series will also feature guest speakers from We Testify who will share wisdom from their experiences of telling their abortion stories. After the series concludes, all participants will be invited to submit writing to an anthology that GrubStreet will put out, in order to increase the visibility of these crucial stories.

Writing Pregnancy and Delivery

In this 4-hour seminar, we will read examples of published essays about pregnancy and delivery, respond to writing prompts that will help us tell our own stories, and share our work in small breakout groups. This class welcomes anyone who feels ready to write about their personal experience(s) with pregnancy through a reproductive justice lens. Writing in this class can incorporate the whole reproductive continuum– pregnancy, abortion, miscarriage–but the focus of our discussion will be on writing about pregnancy and delivery. 

Other Classes in the Your Body, Your Story Series

Your Body, Your Story: Writing Pregnancy, Abortion, and Miscarriage (AM multi-week, starting 10/20)

Your Body, Your Story: Writing Pregnancy, Abortion, and Miscarriage (PM multi-week, starting 10/20)

Your Body, Your Story: Writing Abortion (Sunday, 11/6, from 12pm-4pm)

Your Body, Your Story: Writing Miscarriage  (Sunday, 11/13, from 12pm-4pm)

Your Body, Your Story: Writing Reproductive Justice (Sunday, 12/4, from 12pm-4pm)

Class Format

This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. About 15 minutes before your class is scheduled to begin, you'll receive an email from your instructor with a link to join the class meeting!