Memento Mori: Remember that you Must Die
A Generative Creative Writing Class with Selah Saterstrom
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Sunday, February 1, 2026
12 - 1:30 pm PT
1 - 2:30 pm MT
2 - 3:30 pm CT
3 - 4:30 pm ET
Sliding scale: $15 – $65
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In this 90-minute generative writing class, we will take up memento mori as both method and subject. Guided by creative oracular strategies and feminist art practices, we will practice the art of decay appreciation through writing.
What both writing and divination have taught me is that memento mori—“remember that you must die”—is a dirge and a creative, hermeneutic discipline that steadies the gaze until the present trembles with specificity.
Memento mori is the urgency to live justly and love fiercely, knowing the body is temporary. It is the deep bow before life, even in the presence of complexity. As a method and subject, it sharpens the field of vision and attends to the nuanced details: the turn of a hand, the slant of light, the breath between words.
Each moment, whether exquisite or tedious, bears the same unsparing illumination: nothing is ours to keep. Memento mori is the patience and willingness to witness the unmaking of things, and the courage to keep making anyway. So, let’s write from that place. Join me?
About Selah
Selah Saterstrom is a writer and diviner who practices a Southern family-style of card reading and for nearly thirty years, she has offered divinatory guidance within her communities. She is the author of five books, including Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, which has garnered widespread acclaim. A respected consultant and educator, she teaches, lectures, and facilitates workshops and seminars across the United States and internationally. With Kristen E. Nelson, she co-founded Four Queens Divination and co-hosts The Janky Church Podcast. At the heart of Selah’s work is the belief that divination and radical creativity are liberation practices. She lives on Vashon Island in the Pacific Northwest with her wife and daughter.
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