![]() The gardener was very angry and shouted again, “For a whole year I have taken care of these trees. The stranger sitting on the branch looked at the gardener, but didn’t reply, and continued picking the fruits. ![]() The man became angry and shouted, “Hey you! What are you doing on my tree? Aren’t you ashamed of stealing?” One fine day, while picking the fruits with his son, the man saw a stranger sitting on the branch of a tree and picking fruits. Now he wanted to harvest the fruits and sell them to make money for his family. He had planted many fruit trees and cared for them till they bore fruits. She continues her work as a writer and speaker, facilitating workshops across the US on issues specific to the human struggle and on ways that connecting through story and nature is good for what ails us.Once upon a time, there was a man who had a big garden. Her fiction, poetry, and essays appear in several anthologies as well as in periodicals like Chautauqua, Obsidian II, and. Lockhart is author of novels Fifth Born, a Barnes & Noble Discovery selection and a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award finalist, Cold Running Creek a Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Fiction Awardee, and Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle, 2011 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her latest books include HarperCollins 2023 release Trinity (a novel) by Zelda Lockhart, HarperCollins 2021 release Mama Bear: One Black Mother’s Fight for Her Child’s Life and Her Own (by Shirley Smith with Zelda Lockhart), Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief ( by Doris Payne with Zelda Lockhart), and The Soul of the Full-Length Manuscript which takes readers on the emotional, psychological and spiritual journey of utilizing personal stories to transform their lives while completing a work of fiction, memoir or poetry. ZELDA LOCKHART holds a PhD in Expressive Art Therapies, an MA in Literature, and a certificate in writing, directing and editing from the New York Film Academy. ![]() I do this work with individuals one-on-one, in workshops, in academic settings, and as a tool for community and organizational development. My research and facilitation focusses on utilizing the food, medicine, and kinship of writing and literature as ways for people to self-define and authenticate their relationships. As a queer, Black woman, mother, grandmother, author, I am passionate about fostering freedom of expression for other Black women in what ever way that expression springs forth in my workshops, through writing, song, dance, images. Through stories I navigate and discover new paths for myself, and by reading and listening to your stories I am inspired to keep planting my truths and discovering what sorts of fruit they bear. Being told to be quiet and keep the family secrets was like someone telling water to stay behind a wall. I was a little girl who wanted nothing more than to be outside playing in the dirt and filling my pockets with the magical things I discovered. Zelda or one of the other facilitators will hold you in orbit while you use the writing and the comfort of the environment and group to make the sounds (quiet or loud) that are true to your story. We will write in the aesthetics of a living room or nature, and share a nurturing meal from a well tended garden. We will use other art forms to inspire the writing. When you arrive at the Studio or arrive at a place where the Studio is in pop-up mode, you will take off your shoes, leave those old raggedy social messages at the door, and write yourself to revelation. In the process, our stories, which are the wellspring of our own self-definition, healing, and liberation are lost to us, and to the Black women of the next generation. In order to survive in a society not designed for our survival, Black women learn to quiet our laughter, swallow our pride, and get over it if we hurt. to facilitate healthy literary experiences in nature for Black women and girls.to create visibility for Black women's and girl's literary expressions.to provide literary arts-based workshops and events to Black women and girls as a means of helping them to empower themselves to self-define, heal, and liberate.
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