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Register 17 Seats Remaining
Writing for Wellness
with Dominique Weldon
Saturday, March 07
11:00am - 12:30pm
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2026-03-07 11:00:00
2026-03-07 12:30:00
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Writing for Wellness
Learn to use writing as a tool to achieve healing, wellness, and examine traumas.
West Perry Branch -
Learn to use writing as a tool to achieve healing, wellness, and examine traumas.
Our lives are constantly bombarded with stressors that physically and mentally drain us, and this is especially true in recent times. Thankfully, there are several means that can help us cope with these stressors and even traumas, and writing is one of those means. Both experienced and inexperienced writers use writing as a tool to achieve healing, wellness, and examine traumas. Writing for Wellness, or Expressive Writing, is not about writing to impress others or even being grammatically correct. Writing for Wellness means writing about whatever is weighing on your heart and mind.
This workshop is presented in partnership with the Indiana Writers Center. Check out other writing workshops at library branches this season!
Get your creative juices flowing with this Creative Writing Inspiration list.
Instructor Dominique Weldon is a Black biracial writer who grew up in Iowa. She is a first-generation college graduate of the University of Iowa and received her MFA in Fiction from Butler University, where she served as the nonfiction editor of Booth. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Lover’s Eye Press, DarkWinter Literary Magazine, and Erato Magazine. She lives in Indiana, where she teaches at the Indiana Writers Center and reads fiction for Split Lip Magazine. She is currently working on her first novel as well as a graphic novel.
West Perry Branch
Hours
About the branch
Opened in 2021, this branch encompasses 24,000-square-feet and fills a service gap in the growing Perry Township community. Patrons will find a varied collection of materials at the branch, including materials in Spanish and children’s Burmese language materials to support the diverse community of immigrants who live on Indy’s south side.
Amenities include a community meeting room that can hold 203 guests, a fireplace, a marketplace, computer stations, a children's and teen zone, and an inviting outdoor patio space.