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Past Workshops
8 week online writing group. Every session braids generative writing with mindfulness practices.
Join a supportive community of writers this spring as you weave together a short nonfiction essay. Guest author Carol Barrett will join us May 11 to discuss Pansies, 2020 Oregon Book Award finalist.
Natalie Goldberg will read from her latest book Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku in a virtual event on Tuesday, February 2, 2021.
Keep the pen moving this winter in the company of a supportive writing community.
Build a strong foundation for your writing practice over ten weeks this fall.
4-week dive into writing practice. Prompts given examine this vivid moment we’re living and offer reflection on life memories.
Find community and structure in this 6-week online writing group that braids meditation with small group writing and discussion.
Spring 2020: Spend six week unpacking the stories of your life while building key writing skills.
Winter 2021: 5-night writing retreat in Havana, Cuba.
Natalie Goldberg's book Writing Down the Bones cracked open how the craft of writing was taught in our country. Each week we’ll study this classic text together, then apply the wisdom we glean to timed writing sessions.
Writing with Prompts:
Crafting Stories through the Side Door
Prompts encourage you to approach big topics in your writing - love, death, family, addiction, health - through "the side door." The resulting stories read fresh and wildly creative.
This fall join a 8-week writing group with local writer Sarah Cyr and learn the practice of writing with prompts. Each week you’ll find community and support through facilitated discussion and small group writing. Prompts given will encourage memoir/creative non-fiction writing.
“When I signed up for Sarah’s class, I had little motivation to be creative in my personal time and seemingly no time to write. I’ve now found a way to access my creativity again with an active writing practice. Sarah makes her students feel capable and connected to a larger community of writers." - Shelby
"Sarah's authenticity and commitment to this particular writing process remain with me as a beacon of hope in the messy, muddy process of birthing my own voice." - Chelsea
8 Monday Evenings
September 24-November 12
6:30-8:00 PM
Hawthorne Healing Arts, 39 NW Louisiana Drive (next to Troy Field in downtown Bend)
$185
***In honor of its 15th anniversary, 15% of the proceeds from this writing group will be donated to BendFilm.***
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Writing with Prompts
8 week writing group beginning September 24, 2018.
Three Saturdays this spring from 1-4 PM at Hawthorn Healing Arts Center. Register for one, two or all three workshops. We’ll practice timed freewriting in response to prompts in each workshop, a style inspired by Natalie Goldberg.
Do you have a yearning to write but don't know where to start? Or maybe you already write but have trouble sticking with it? This workshop will help you gain the necessary tools to cultivate a consistent writing practice in your life.
This fall, find inspiration and structure in a class devoted to the practice of writing memoir.
Over the course of six weeks, you'll be guided through the process of writing a personal essay from conception stage to final product.
Dive deep into a writing practice this fall by joining a writing group.
Pop into Dudley's Bookstore in downtown Bend, OR for a fifteen minute writing workshop on Saturday, March 26.
I'm thrilled to partner with The Workhouse again on a workshop to help artists write about their work.
Join fellow writers in Central Oregon - new and seasoned - in a 30 day writing challenge. The ground will be warming up, and so will your writing muscles.