a word after a word after a word is power. - Margaret Atwood

How it's organized:

• Warm up your voice: short, quick writing prompt on the theme to get your ink flowing

• Dive into inspiration with curated contemporary work on the theme

• Discuss what the poem or story does to us & take a look at the tools & tricks making us feeeeel something

• Exploratory prompts to jump into your own voice, using those tools

• Time to share (no pressure but it is a joy to be with other people who just took the very vulnerable step of putting their voice on paper & sharing what you each created)

With 15 years teaching creative writing and as a former editor-in-chief, I know how to help writers get to the meat of what they want their readers to feel. I have experience working with professional writers and brand new, first time writers. If you have never written, you will learn tools to start writing. If you have been writing for years, you will dig into where the 'you' in your writing voice can be magnified.

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Monthly Writing Workshops

What you'll learn: Everyone packs the words they use with their own meaning, & we want to look at what you are packing, if you are carrying too much, not enough, or juuuust right for the trip into your imagination that you're taking us on.

What we'll do: Read curated masterpieces of writing on different themes each month - writing that inspires us to feel, reflect, & think differently. We'll examine what react//respond to & what we can borrow & steal as a tool or theme... Then write write write to try those tools in our own writing.

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