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Where can you find me?
WA Poets Inc., Grill’d to Perfection: Poets in Freo (A WA Poets Fundraiser) [April 23, 2024]
St. Catherine’s Writing Retreat, Society of Women Writers WA: Building an Online Profile [April, 2024]
Society of Women Writers WA, Wednesday Writing Class: Building an Online Submissions Profile [February, 2024]
Society of Women Writers WA, Wednesday Writing Class: Shut Up & Write x2 [October, 2023]
Society of Women Writers WA, Wednesday Writing Class: Very Short Stories [September, 2023]
Coffee, Grief & Gratitude: Grief is Love Episode 12 [July 4, 2023]

On episode 12 we’re thrilled to listen to and be in conversation with Asha Rajan who reads her essay “The Smell of Grief.” In this piece she writes about smells she associated with different family members as she sat with them as they died: “Grief smells like over-cooked cabbage, citronella, sandlewood, unwashed bodies, and pages of a fading book, like dying stars.”

Society of Women Writers WA, Wednesday Writing Class: Grief Writing [April, 2023]
Society of Women Writers WA, Wednesday Writing Class: Shut Up & Write! [March, 2023]
Society of Women Writers WA, Wednesday Writing Class: Writing Towards Publication — Introduction to building an online writer’s submissions profile [February, 2023]
Society of Women Writers WA, Wednesday Writing Class: Interviewing Shirley Eldridge ‘Basic Psychology for Writing Characters’ [February, 2023]
Coffee and Grief: Coffee Talk #39 (recorded reading) [October 6, 2022 10am AWST (UTC+8)]. Read the text of this essay here.
Society of Women Writers WA, Wednesday Writing Class: Interviewing Loretta Tolnai ‘Writing Childhood Memoir'[February, 2023]
Society of Women Writers WA, Wednesday Writing Class: Flash and Micro Fiction [September/October, 2022]
YeahWrite Scarlet Quill Society: “Sensitivity Readers” (panel discussion – recorded) [July, 2022]
Society of Women Writers WA, Wednesday Writing Class: Creative Non-Fiction (workshop/class) [June, 2022]
Death Rattle: “Literally Crawling” (poetry reading) [November 5, 2021]
Unchaste Readers: Unchaste Variety Show (poetry reading) [May 29, 2021]