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Mia-Rose Dunlap

Love & Apology Letters for Black women: The Audacity to Heal | 4-Week Online Writing Workshop

$249.00

There is probably a letter you've been carrying for years. The one you've never sent. The one you've never received, but longed for. The one that could shift something, if you let it in. 

In this intimate and courageous workshop, we’ll explore the art of Love and Apology letters, not as polite gestures, but as audacious acts of truth, repair, and self-reconnection. Letters that tell stories, pick up where the conversations ended...or never began. Together, we will write the letters that invite us to begin or deepen our healing journey. 

We'll draw inspiration from epistolary writers like Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ocean Vuong, and others, and explore the intimacy and courage it takes to speak directly to the people, memories, and forces that shape our lives.

This workshop is for truth-tellers, writers, journalers, artists, and for those curious about what will be unlocked for you. 

4 class sessions
Tuesdays, November 3-24
7p-9p ET
4p-6p PT
6p-8p CT

All class meetings will be held via Zoom. For more information on how to download or use Zoom, please click here. Please note: At this time, to protect the confidentiality of the space and sharing of students' work, classes are not recorded.

    Course Takeaways

    • Guidance on how to write epistolary literature and space to bring your own creative genius into the room.
    • Engaging meditation and mindfulness practices
    • The opportunity to write at least four letters but you may decide to write and edit and rewrite one letter.
    • The option to share your letters and bear witness to others'.
    • You will get to decide how much/whether you want to share.

    Course Expectations

    • Participants can expect guided prompts, short readings, and time to write during the session. We will spend most of our time generating new work and exploring the emotional and creative possibilities of the letter form.
    • Writers will be invited (but never required) to share excerpts of what they’ve written. The space will be held with care, confidentiality, and deep respect for each person’s voice and story.
    • There is no formal pre-work required, though participants are encouraged to come with an open mind and a willingness to explore letters they may have never imagined writing.
    • This is not a traditional critique workshop. Instead of line-by-line editing, we will focus on listening, reflection, and witnessing each other’s work. The goal is to help each writer access honesty, clarity, and courage in their writing.
    • Participants should come prepared with a willingness to experiment, feel, and tell the truth.

    Course Skeleton

    • Week One: The Letters That Live Inside Us
      Learning the Fundamentals of the Epistolary Form & brainstorming letters we may want to write, begin drafting our first letter
    • Week Two: Courageous Conversations
      Love, Apology, Intimacy and Honesty
    • Week Three: Engaging our Imaginations
      Letters to the Unexpected
    • Week Four: Release, Ritual, and Return
      Reflection and Choosing What Comes Next

    For Classes: We offer full refunds for cancellation with written notice up until 7 days before your class start date. From 6 days to more than 24 hours before class begins, we offer a 25% refund. If you drop a class less than 24 hours before the class begins or after it has started, you are ineligible for a refund.

    The Write-In Bundle is non-refundable once purchased. If you are unable to attend a session, your spot is held and you are welcome to attend any remaining sessions in the bundle period.

    By signing up for a class, you agree to our refund policy and code of conduct here.

    For Editing packages: Refunds are not offered after your story or manuscript is submitted for review.

    Meet Your Instructor

    Mia-Rose Dunlap

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    Mia-Rose is a writer, facilitator, coach, and author of The Audacity to Curate a Life You Love and Apology Letters: The Audacity to Heal, which is a collection of love and apology letters exploring repair, longing, and acceptance. She has traveled to over twenty countries and has lived on three different parts of the country for at least a decade each: Chicago, New York, and Atlanta.

    Through sold-out workshops across Atlanta, she has guided writers in composing letters to cities, from diseases, to their mothers, from feelings like worry and even to their wombs. Her facilitation style blends emotional rigor with inviting participants to confront silence, reclaim narrative, and redefine closure. She is also the host of The Audacity Show, a talk show focused on intentionally curating a life you love.

    Mia-Rose believes letter writing and epistolary literature is one of our most sacred literary forms. It is an offering, a reckoning, a bridge to our inner lives and an awakening of our imaginations.