East Window’s Banned Book Club
presents
Writers on Resistance and Open Mic
Curated by Hillary Leftwich
Writers on Resistance is a Substack series that invites writers, artists, and creatives to speak directly about how their work functions as resistance. Each piece considers what it means to create in a political climate that increasingly targets artists, diversity, education, and expression. Contributors reflect on the role of art during times of suppression, the pressures they face, and the choices they make to continue speaking, teaching, and creating. The series offers a space for testimony, strategy, and truth from those who refuse to be quieted or erased.
Details forthcoming.
Read the series here: https://substack.com/@hillaryleftwich
Hillary Leftwich is a multi-media writer and the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (Agape Editions, 2023), Aura (Future Tense Books, 2022), and Saint Dymphna’s Playbook (Limit Zero, 2025). She teaches creative writing, business writing, and environmental writing and storytelling at several universities, writing organizations, and nonprofits for adults, previously incarcerated and hospitalized youth, and unhoused populations. She centers her writing around themes of class struggle, the impact of disease, mental illness, ritual, and the supernatural. On the outskirts of the writing world, she teaches Tarot and Tarot writing workshops focusing on strengthening divination abilities along with writing. She is a professional Tarot reader, death worker, and speaks with the dead.
www.hillaryleftwich.com
IG @HillaryLeftwich