Go Back and Get It Welcomes the Griots of the Creatorship to 'The SafeHouse!'
Go Back and Get It is delighted to welcome our new contributing partners, Creatorship of the Griots!
"We are not just storytellers of this world, we are the authors of the next one."
- The Creatorship
Part of the Fellowship of the Griots family of offerings, Creatorship of the Griots Co-Writing Space is built with speculative writers in mind. Gathering twice each week, participants write and create alongside one another in "Creatorship", cultivating words, connections, and new possibilities through the transformative power of imagination and the generative force of community.
GBAGI is proud to publish works from the Creatorship of the Griots SafeHouse Collection, a playful publishing experiment born from the conversations, prompts, reflections, and friendships cultivated within the Creatorship co-writing space.
The idea emerged, as many things do in Creatorship, during one of our cherished community recesses inbetween writing sprints. Inspired by a check-in prompt exploring creativity as a living, divine force, participants began imagining what it might look like to honor the creative impulse not only through writing, but through the act of sharing that writing with the world.
What followed was the spontaneous creation of SafeHouse Publishing: an imaginary publishing house devoted to helping writers cross the threshold from creation to submission. Part moon magic ritual, part creative mischief, and part collective act of faith, SafeHouse invites us to practice seeing ourselves as published authors before permission, perfection, or certainty arrive.
The works to be gathered will reflect that spirit. Created in community and offered in service of possibility, they celebrate courage over polish, experimentation over certainty, getting to the finish line. SafeHouse is a place to play, to practice, to take creative risks, and to remember that sometimes the most powerful act is simply to submit the work.
We are eager to welcome you to the collection, working title: Classified. TBA.
(Fellowship of the Griots is a community organization centering the power of Black writers and our allies. If you are such a writer, check out their many offerings; there is something for everyone!)
Creatorship of the Griots is a co-writing space for Black, Brown, and Global Majority writers. Meeting every Thursday and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Eastern, we gather to cultivate imagination, nurture creative practice, and write in community with one another.
Click HERE to register.