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Group photo of Study & Story ensemble around the table at the end of a Circle in Easthampton, MA.

The 2017 Study & Story ensemble participates in a circle closing ritual called "Thumbs," where participant join hands by linking thumbs to gather wisdom and seal in the power of the experience.

Members of the 2017 Study & Story ensemble engage in discussion about readings by James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry. The ensemble dove deep into the friendship and works of these two writer-activists to inspire them to write from their own…

The 2016 Study & Story ensemble gathered every other week to discuss readings related to race, class and gender and use the critical texts as inspiration to write from their own stories.

The Seward Writing Circle began in 2012 in the basement of the town library. Participants of the workshop ebbed and flowed, but circles always ended with a ritual called "Thumbs."