Writing from Grief

with Samantha Lee Curran and Amy Firth

What does your grief long to say, if given the chance?
What might be revealed if you sit with it, listen and let the words come?

Whether it’s grief from a bereavement, a break-up, or the state of the world - all grief is welcome here - as a beloved guest reminding us of what we truly love.

Writing From Grief is a gentle workshop where we gather in community to honour grief through words. With simple, supportive prompts, you’ll be invited to listen, write and allow grief to speak in its own voice. No writing experience is needed - only a willingness to come as you are, with your Grief as the Guest of Honour. 🥂

Grief has many voices. Some whisper, some rage, some fall silent. In this workshop, we’ll use guided journaling and creative writing as gentle tools to listen, shape and give language to the grief we carry. Poetry and prompts will help open the way, with space to write privately and, if you wish, to share in safe company.

Grief In Motion workshops are not about fixing or rushing grief. They are invitations to sit alongside it, to let it take form, and to witness what emerges together in community.

These workshops are open to anyone walking with loss - recent or long ago. No writing experience is needed, only a willingness to come as you are.

Event Details

📅 Thursday 30th October
🕖 7pm – 9pm
📍 RoseyRavelston Books, Lawson, Darug & Gundungurra Country

🎟 Cost: $20 (plus booking fee) or pay what you can (sliding scale available - no one turned away)
✍️ What to bring: notebook & pen
👥 Tickets limited to 15 participants

About Samantha Lee Curran

Samantha Lee Curran (she/her) is a queer poet, writer, award-winning artist and end-of-life doula living on Dharug and Gundungurra land. Her debut poetry collection exposure to existence was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2023, with a second collection blue is how I know you from Illographo Press in 2025. Her words and artworks have been featured in exhibitions, residencies, and literary journals both in Australia and internationally, including an artist residency at Château d’Orquevaux (France) and Studio Kura (Japan). Through her creative practice, Samantha explores themes of tenderness, loss, and transformation, inviting readers and audiences into raw, intimate spaces of being.

About Amy Firth

Amy (she/her) is a local death care worker, spiritual counsellor and creative facilitator. Also an ordained Interfaith Minister, she is passionate about holding spaces that honour life’s thresholds with tenderness and creativity. Drawing on her 20+ years in the arts, Amy weaves creativity, ritual, music and storytelling into her work, creating ceremonies and workshops that make room for both sorrow and beauty.
Amy is also the host of the monthly Blue Mountains Death Café.

About Grief In Motion

Born through common themes emerging at the Blue Mountains Death Café, Grief In Motion is a series of creative workshops where we gather in community to be with, listen to, express and honour grief in all its forms. Each workshop will offer a different creative way to be alongside our grief, whether through writing, weaving, painting, pottery, stitching, baking - we are dreaming into a whole series of getting hands on with our grief in new and creative ways.

These workshops are not about fixing or rushing grief - it’s more an invitation to sit alongside it, to give it form, to let it speak - and to share this experience in safe company. Skilfully held by local Blue Mountains creative practitioners and trauma-informed grief workers, these workshops are gentle and spacious. You don’t need any artistic experience, only a willingness to come as you are, with your grief as the guest of honour.