Sherisa de Groot
@sherisa.bsky.social
Founder of Raising Mothers (@raisingmothers.bsky.social) & Literary Liberation (@literaryliberation.bsky.social). Pens A Home Within Myself on Substack.Very Black. Very strong.
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Sherisa de Groot
@sherisa.bsky.social
· Feb 3
Over at Raising Mothers, we have a ton of submissions open. One day I swear I'll try to narrow it down. Today ain't that day.
Note: we only accept work from Black & brown writers. 🧵
Note: we only accept work from Black & brown writers. 🧵
Our submissions are wide open this year at Raising Mothers! Send us your best work! Read our guidelines first.
Reposted by Sherisa de Groot
FEB 28: Writing Alongside Stars with Theresa Tran @astrapoetica.bsky.social
learn more & enroll:
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/new-class-...
learn more & enroll:
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/new-class-...
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
FEB 28: Writing Alongside Stars with Theresa Tran @astrapoetica.bsky.social
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literaryliberation.substack.com/p/new-class-...
learn more & enroll:
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FEB 21: Character Driven with Katherin Garland @kegarland.bsky.social
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learn more & enroll:
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October 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
FEB 21: Character Driven with Katherin Garland @kegarland.bsky.social
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literaryliberation.substack.com/p/new-class-...
learn more & enroll:
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/new-class-...
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JAN 31: StoryJustice: Social Justice Storytelling with Tayler Simon
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literaryliberation.substack.com/p/new-class-...
learn more & enroll:
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/new-class-...
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
JAN 31: StoryJustice: Social Justice Storytelling with Tayler Simon
learn more & enroll:
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/new-class-...
learn more & enroll:
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/new-class-...
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JAN 24: Fictionalizing Family Archives with Noelani Piters.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
JAN 24: Fictionalizing Family Archives with Noelani Piters.
learn more & enroll:
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/new-class-...
learn more & enroll:
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/new-class-...
We just announced our winter workshops! Won’t you join us?
ANNOUNCING our WINTER 2026 workshops! Write yourself into the future with us!
If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to join us, this is it.
Registration is open. Keep reading to see what’s on offer, & enjoy 20% off marked workshops if you’re a paid member.
Register literaryliberation.net
If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to join us, this is it.
Registration is open. Keep reading to see what’s on offer, & enjoy 20% off marked workshops if you’re a paid member.
Register literaryliberation.net
October 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
We just announced our winter workshops! Won’t you join us?
Hope to see you in class!
FINAL CALL!!
There is still time to enroll in our final two workshops this fall. AGAIN AND AGAIN is this Saturday, Nov 1 and WRITE TO THRIVE is Saturday, Nov 22.
Learn more & register for both at literaryliberation.substack.com/p/final-call...
There is still time to enroll in our final two workshops this fall. AGAIN AND AGAIN is this Saturday, Nov 1 and WRITE TO THRIVE is Saturday, Nov 22.
Learn more & register for both at literaryliberation.substack.com/p/final-call...
FINAL CALL! Sign up now for our FALL workshops at Literary Liberation!
Let's sell out our fall workshops this month!
literaryliberation.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Hope to see you in class!
Our fall workshops at @literaryliberation.bsky.social are up and ready for you to scoop up! Grab your seat! And share them with a friend or two.
Our Fall workshops are LIVE!
Over the next few months we’re offering two workshops per month. All of our workshops are virtual & paid subscribers get 20% off!
More at literaryliberation.net 1/
Over the next few months we’re offering two workshops per month. All of our workshops are virtual & paid subscribers get 20% off!
More at literaryliberation.net 1/
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Our fall workshops at @literaryliberation.bsky.social are up and ready for you to scoop up! Grab your seat! And share them with a friend or two.
I plan on making a tiny bit of effort here. Clap for me. If you need something to read, try these: Sherisa.substack.com, literaryliberation.substack.com, and raisingmothers.substack.com
A Home Within Myself | Sherisa de Groot | Substack
How to find and love the home within yourself. Essays & conversations on love, parenthood, identity, culture, midlife, relationships and Blackness from a first-generation American elder millennial imm...
Sherisa.substack.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I plan on making a tiny bit of effort here. Clap for me. If you need something to read, try these: Sherisa.substack.com, literaryliberation.substack.com, and raisingmothers.substack.com
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“My writing, once a liberatory microphone, was now a stick of dynamite, waiting to blow up my case at the touch of a flame.” - at Memoir Land, Iris (Yi Youn) Kim with the first in a collaborative series with @sherisa.bsky.social's Literary Liberation.
memoirland.substack.com/p/they-tried...
memoirland.substack.com/p/they-tried...
They Tried to Take My Words. I Fought to Get Them Back.
This essay is the first in a collaborative series between Memoir Land and Literary Liberation, Sherisa De Groot's excellent publication, featuring stories about writing as a transformative and liberat...
memoirland.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“My writing, once a liberatory microphone, was now a stick of dynamite, waiting to blow up my case at the touch of a flame.” - at Memoir Land, Iris (Yi Youn) Kim with the first in a collaborative series with @sherisa.bsky.social's Literary Liberation.
memoirland.substack.com/p/they-tried...
memoirland.substack.com/p/they-tried...
Our submissions are wide open this year at Raising Mothers! Send us your best work! Read our guidelines first.
Over at Raising Mothers, we have a ton of submissions open. One day I swear I'll try to narrow it down. Today ain't that day.
Note: we only accept work from Black & brown writers. 🧵
Note: we only accept work from Black & brown writers. 🧵
February 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Our submissions are wide open this year at Raising Mothers! Send us your best work! Read our guidelines first.
Reposted by Sherisa de Groot
Attention parent-writers: MVICW (@mvicw) is offering 2 fully funded fellowships to the 2025 Martha's Vineyard Summer Writers Conference.
Learn more and apply at: mvicw.com
Learn more and apply at: mvicw.com
HOME | Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing
Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (MVICW) is a nonprofit organization founded on the belief that writers flourish best in communities based in compassion rather than competition. Each year we host a conference where writers from around the country meet other authors & develop their craft.
mvicw.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Attention parent-writers: MVICW (@mvicw) is offering 2 fully funded fellowships to the 2025 Martha's Vineyard Summer Writers Conference.
Learn more and apply at: mvicw.com
Learn more and apply at: mvicw.com
Jan 12!! Register now. It’s pay what you can
Read “Staying Present: Moving Beyond Good/Bad to the Heart of the Story” by Sarah Dalton & then sign up for her workshop, AFTER BIRTH: POSTPARTUM NARRATIVES on Jan 12.
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/after-birt...
Special note: this workshop is pay-what-you-can
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/after-birt...
Special note: this workshop is pay-what-you-can
January 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Jan 12!! Register now. It’s pay what you can
We have a few workshops still happening this month at @literaryliberation.bsky.social & would love help spreading the word!
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/workshops-... with special attention to AFTER BIRTH (Jan 12), UNDER YOUR SKIN (Jan 14), and DO IT ANYWAY (Jan 18)
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/workshops-... with special attention to AFTER BIRTH (Jan 12), UNDER YOUR SKIN (Jan 14), and DO IT ANYWAY (Jan 18)
Workshop Calendar
Upcoming Workshops & Courses | JAN 2025
literaryliberation.substack.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
We have a few workshops still happening this month at @literaryliberation.bsky.social & would love help spreading the word!
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/workshops-... with special attention to AFTER BIRTH (Jan 12), UNDER YOUR SKIN (Jan 14), and DO IT ANYWAY (Jan 18)
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/workshops-... with special attention to AFTER BIRTH (Jan 12), UNDER YOUR SKIN (Jan 14), and DO IT ANYWAY (Jan 18)
Who are these random men??
January 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Who are these random men??
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Priscilla Thomas reminds us that living in a world that constantly fragments our physical experience, writers often overlook the profound creative potential residing within their bodies.
Read “The Embodied Writer” & register for UNDER YOUR SKIN.
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/under-your...
Read “The Embodied Writer” & register for UNDER YOUR SKIN.
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/under-your...
December 16, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Priscilla Thomas reminds us that living in a world that constantly fragments our physical experience, writers often overlook the profound creative potential residing within their bodies.
Read “The Embodied Writer” & register for UNDER YOUR SKIN.
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/under-your...
Read “The Embodied Writer” & register for UNDER YOUR SKIN.
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/under-your...
Reposted by Sherisa de Groot
Read “Staying Present: Moving Beyond Good/Bad to the Heart of the Story” by Sarah Dalton & then sign up for her workshop, AFTER BIRTH: POSTPARTUM NARRATIVES on Jan 12.
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/after-birt...
Special note: this workshop is pay-what-you-can
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/after-birt...
Special note: this workshop is pay-what-you-can
December 16, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Read “Staying Present: Moving Beyond Good/Bad to the Heart of the Story” by Sarah Dalton & then sign up for her workshop, AFTER BIRTH: POSTPARTUM NARRATIVES on Jan 12.
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/after-birt...
Special note: this workshop is pay-what-you-can
literaryliberation.substack.com/p/after-birt...
Special note: this workshop is pay-what-you-can
My internal clock feels out of it. I’m no longer hungry in the mornings (after a lifetime being the opposite) but this week so far I’m ravenous and I’m ready for bed by 3p. No second or third winds. Is this a new phase of #perimenopause?
December 3, 2024 at 7:38 AM
My internal clock feels out of it. I’m no longer hungry in the mornings (after a lifetime being the opposite) but this week so far I’m ravenous and I’m ready for bed by 3p. No second or third winds. Is this a new phase of #perimenopause?
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Be sure to follow @raisingmothers.bsky.social, a literary platform founded by @sherisa.bsky.social that amplifies the global majority and advocates for social justice and equity.
raisingmothers.substack.com
raisingmothers.substack.com
Raising Mothers | Sherisa | Substack
Writing ourselves back to the center. Celebrating & centering the parenting and personal narratives of the Global Majority since 2015. Click to read Raising Mothers, by Sherisa, a Substack publication...
raisingmothers.substack.com
December 2, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Be sure to follow @raisingmothers.bsky.social, a literary platform founded by @sherisa.bsky.social that amplifies the global majority and advocates for social justice and equity.
raisingmothers.substack.com
raisingmothers.substack.com
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This season, gift yourself something real: your own creative potential. Invest in YOU.
You are the gift.Your voice is the present.Your stories are waiting.
No discount code required. Just your commitment.
Your words can’t wait. Register for our workshops at literaryliberation.net
You are the gift.Your voice is the present.Your stories are waiting.
No discount code required. Just your commitment.
Your words can’t wait. Register for our workshops at literaryliberation.net
November 27, 2024 at 7:05 PM
This season, gift yourself something real: your own creative potential. Invest in YOU.
You are the gift.Your voice is the present.Your stories are waiting.
No discount code required. Just your commitment.
Your words can’t wait. Register for our workshops at literaryliberation.net
You are the gift.Your voice is the present.Your stories are waiting.
No discount code required. Just your commitment.
Your words can’t wait. Register for our workshops at literaryliberation.net
Reposted by Sherisa de Groot
"America has been unmasked."
Tiffanie Drayton, author of Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream, discusses abuse, racism, & the family court system w @ajfields.bsky.social @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social & Brianna Avenia-Tapper.
literarymama.substack.com/p/tiffanie-d...
Tiffanie Drayton, author of Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream, discusses abuse, racism, & the family court system w @ajfields.bsky.social @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social & Brianna Avenia-Tapper.
literarymama.substack.com/p/tiffanie-d...
Tiffanie Drayton: Demon slayer, here we come
Tiffanie Drayton sits in the Literary Mama guest chair with Amanda Fields, Holly Rizzuto Palker, and Brianna Avenia-Tapper to discuss her memoir Black American Refugee, abusive relationships, racism a...
literarymama.substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:19 PM
"America has been unmasked."
Tiffanie Drayton, author of Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream, discusses abuse, racism, & the family court system w @ajfields.bsky.social @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social & Brianna Avenia-Tapper.
literarymama.substack.com/p/tiffanie-d...
Tiffanie Drayton, author of Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream, discusses abuse, racism, & the family court system w @ajfields.bsky.social @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social & Brianna Avenia-Tapper.
literarymama.substack.com/p/tiffanie-d...
Reposted by Sherisa de Groot
They’re LIVE!
In this 3 hour, online workshop with Leonora Simonovis, explore how mindful breathing and art can deepen your writing practice with greater clarity and ease. Learn more about this and all of our January workshops at the link in bio or literaryliberation.substack.com/p/its-all-in...
In this 3 hour, online workshop with Leonora Simonovis, explore how mindful breathing and art can deepen your writing practice with greater clarity and ease. Learn more about this and all of our January workshops at the link in bio or literaryliberation.substack.com/p/its-all-in...
It's All in The Breath: Embodying Your Creative Self | 3 hours
A 1-day workshop led by Leonora Simonovis
literaryliberation.substack.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:43 PM
They’re LIVE!
In this 3 hour, online workshop with Leonora Simonovis, explore how mindful breathing and art can deepen your writing practice with greater clarity and ease. Learn more about this and all of our January workshops at the link in bio or literaryliberation.substack.com/p/its-all-in...
In this 3 hour, online workshop with Leonora Simonovis, explore how mindful breathing and art can deepen your writing practice with greater clarity and ease. Learn more about this and all of our January workshops at the link in bio or literaryliberation.substack.com/p/its-all-in...
So I’m going to talk about perimenopause a lot bc, well, life.
I was asthmatic as a child for a brief time until around 12 or so. Now in my 40s I’m suddenly suffering again. I’ve been having attacks all weekend. What is this fresh hell?
I’m not someone who curses new stages of life but come on!
I was asthmatic as a child for a brief time until around 12 or so. Now in my 40s I’m suddenly suffering again. I’ve been having attacks all weekend. What is this fresh hell?
I’m not someone who curses new stages of life but come on!
November 18, 2024 at 8:55 PM
So I’m going to talk about perimenopause a lot bc, well, life.
I was asthmatic as a child for a brief time until around 12 or so. Now in my 40s I’m suddenly suffering again. I’ve been having attacks all weekend. What is this fresh hell?
I’m not someone who curses new stages of life but come on!
I was asthmatic as a child for a brief time until around 12 or so. Now in my 40s I’m suddenly suffering again. I’ve been having attacks all weekend. What is this fresh hell?
I’m not someone who curses new stages of life but come on!
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We are Raising Mothers. A literary platform exclusively centering the parenting and personal narratives of the Global majority since 2015.
We are writing ourselves back to the center. Won’t you join us?
raisingmothers.substack.com
We are writing ourselves back to the center. Won’t you join us?
raisingmothers.substack.com
November 17, 2024 at 3:33 PM
We are Raising Mothers. A literary platform exclusively centering the parenting and personal narratives of the Global majority since 2015.
We are writing ourselves back to the center. Won’t you join us?
raisingmothers.substack.com
We are writing ourselves back to the center. Won’t you join us?
raisingmothers.substack.com
My latest for A Home Within Myself. I have always been relationship obsessed, but not in a romantic sense. I’m tired of existing in spaces where I can’t be me because of circumstance.
sherisa.substack.com/p/a-world-fu...
sherisa.substack.com/p/a-world-fu...
a world full of blinders
Too many people make a transcontinental move to 'escape' the dangers of America, only to ignore everything in the land they now call home.
sherisa.substack.com
November 18, 2024 at 12:39 AM
My latest for A Home Within Myself. I have always been relationship obsessed, but not in a romantic sense. I’m tired of existing in spaces where I can’t be me because of circumstance.
sherisa.substack.com/p/a-world-fu...
sherisa.substack.com/p/a-world-fu...
An introduction. I’m the founder of @raisingmothers.bsky.social & @literaryliberation.bsky.social. A mother. A writer. An editor. A first gen Black American immigrant living in Europe. Never call me an expat. I’m always liberation minded. Very Jamaican. Veg/vegan 19 yrs. Very Aquarius. Hi.
November 18, 2024 at 12:33 AM
An introduction. I’m the founder of @raisingmothers.bsky.social & @literaryliberation.bsky.social. A mother. A writer. An editor. A first gen Black American immigrant living in Europe. Never call me an expat. I’m always liberation minded. Very Jamaican. Veg/vegan 19 yrs. Very Aquarius. Hi.