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Chanel Brenner

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Grief Support

Writing through Loss

Chanel is offering one-on-one grief support sessions to explore loss through writing. In these private one-hour sessions, she will provide poems and writing prompts for inspiration. In this safe and supportive environment, you will write and share what you have written. No writing experience is necessary. Sessions are available long distance through phone and Zoom.

Chanel began writing poetry when her older son, Riley, died of a brain AVM hemorrhage at age six. Writing became her lifeline. She believes everyone can benefit from writing to help process their grief and navigate life after loss.

“Through writing, suffering can be transmuted into art.”
–Louise DeSalvo, Writing as a Way of Healing

Fee: $120/session

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About the Author

Chanel Brenner is the winner of the 2021 Press 53 Award for Poetry. She is the author of Vanilla Milk: a memoir told in poems, (Silver Birch Press, 2014), which was a finalist for the 2016 Independent Book Awards and honorable mention in the 2014 Eric Hoffer awards.  Her poems have appeared in Rattle, Raleigh Review, Spoon River, New Ohio Review, Muzzle Magazine, Barrow Street, Salamander, and others. Her poem, “Apology,” won first place in the Smartish Pace Beullah Rose Poetry Prize. Her essays have appeared in HerStry, Literary Mama, Minerva Rising, Modern Loss, and The Good Men Project.

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