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Whether or not you’re grieving or want to write directly about grief, this workshop will help you use writing to work through the loss and longing that’s a part of human life. Let it all out!
Writing Grief & Heartache
Tag: grief
Our Most Read Stories of 2023
Lilith Staff
These pieces reflect this heartbreaking year of violence and loss. Two abiding themes are grief and hope
On Grief
Esther Jay
“Literal heartache accompanies the loss of someone you love…the phantom pain of a severed limb.”
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Your Dying Mother.
Penny Jackson
“But there is no other title. My mother is dying. This story is really for me.”
I’m 10 And I’ve Gone Through More Than Most Adults
Hana Wildman Halpern
When I watch “dramatic” TV shows, they don’t seem like much compared to my life.
What Tahara Can Teach Us
Alana Krivo-Kaufman
During a Tahara, the Jewish ritual for sanctifying a body after death, we wash the body in a continuous stream of water, we engage in spacious silence, and we recite words which affirm the inherent goodness of every soul, every life an entire world.
Amazon Is Sold out of Sackcloth.
Rabbi Jen Gubitz
I am sitting shmira – / Guarding the memories of the dead / until they are returned / to their families embrace.
“The Archivists” Dives Beneath the Surface
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Daphne Kalotay talks to Lilith about “The Archivists,” loss, and what lies beneath the surface.
Talking “A Castle in Brooklyn” with Shirley Wachtel
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Shirley Russak Wachtel talks to Lilith about how grief and betrayal threaten to destroy what were once unbreakable bonds in her novel A Castle in Brooklyn.
A Guide to Navigating Grief…
Mikhal Weiner
“All that I have learned from my 15 years of living with very personal, profound loss as a person who was 30 years old when faced with that loss—and trying to figure out how to live a life.”