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Mujeres, The Magic, The Movement and The Muse: An Anthology of Women Writers is a published anthology by RoblesWrites Productions brought forth through a series of workshops meant to empower Women using traditional healing practices.

1	History 2	Bronx Memoir Project Volume 1 2.1	Participating Writers 3	References

History[edit source] The production of Mujeres, The Magic, The Movement and The Muse: An Anthology of Women Writers was as an ongoing collaboration between Poet, Writer, Performer Peggy Robles-Alvarado, RoblesWrites Productions and other cultural institutions including: The Bronx Library Center and Spaceworks. It was funded in part by a grant from Spacworks Bronx Community Artist Grant program made possible through support from the New York Community Trust.

The mission of the project was to engage a group of women for four Saturdays in October at the Bronx Library Center in a writing endeavor. The workshop met for three hours. Each week the women me with facilitators, in the following order: 1. Manuela Arciniegas (Palo Practitioner) 2. Shihan Candy Warixi Soto (Taino Elder) 3. Odusinya Martin (Lukimi Priestess)

Each wise woman offered their unique healing perspective, which in turn was used to produce poetic or prose narratives to encourage self-love and acceptance as well as a safe space for women from different backgrounds to exchange ideas.

The participants cultivated the art of writing and harnessing the power of using these traditional practices for clearing or shifting energy and accessing creative muses that women naturally carry within them and by coaxing memories, soothing what ails, and restoring connections between body and spirit. The result of which is this Anthology.

Mujeres, The Magic, The Movement and the Muse: An Anthology of Women Writers is a published anthology by Peggy Robles-Alvarado that highlights the creation and birth of powerful healing poetry by women of various ages, experiences and identifiers who set down fear to carry pens and pull at the holy roar caught in feet, hands, heart and head.

Participating Writers
{| class="wikitable" !Author's Name Peggy Robles-Alvarado
 * Aurora J. "AJ" De Pena
 * Tina B. Marie
 * Jossie Ortiz
 * Nia Andino
 * Tamara G. Saliva
 * Yadhira Gonzalez-Taylor, Esq.
 * Cindy Peralta
 * Melissa "Emalia" Medina
 * Janel Cloyd
 * Flora Montes
 * Sydney Valerio
 * Jama Clark