This workshop is designed to get you started on your own junk journal journey. Junk journaling is a way of recording your inner passion, life experiences, and collaging what you love and learn. It combines all forms of art mediums to create a book of you. Junk journaling uses everything from writing about your life…

Many people have stories to tell about illness, whether it’s visible or invisible, chronic or an era in their lives. Jumi Bello will introduce participants to various writers, both living and dead, who write on the notions of illness and the different forms they’ve embodied in expressing their experience. She will then guide participants in…

Some of our most profound experiences are gracefully simple and some are stranger than fiction. How do we make sense of our life experiences and how do we record them? What voice do we use to tell our life story and what format? After we muster the courage and humor to record our memoirs, how…

Join us for Friday only of our two-day writing conference focused on nature and the environment. Friday’s presenters include: Keynote with Dan Egan Morning breakout sessions with Constance Malloy (prose), Caryl Pagel (poetry), Lindsey Taylor (advocacy), Carrie and Peter Sherrill (Hike and Write: Art/Speaks) Panel discussion on Writing the Nature of the Door with Kathleen…

Join us for Saturday only of our two-day writing conference focused on nature and the environment. Saturday's sessions include: Keynote with Daniel Slager, publisher & CEO, Milkweed Editions Morning breakout sessions with Jill Stukenberg (prose); Michael Walsh (poetry); Chera Van Falcon Burg (advocacy); Libby Humprhies (Hike and Write: The Ridges) Panel Discussion: Eco-Poetics with Kimberly Blaeser, Nicholas Gulig,…

Join us for a fun and highly interactive program that provides guidance, helpful tips, constructive advice, and a methodology and framework to help you write various types of songs. It is for all levels of musical aptitude including those who sometimes get stuck writing songs or have always wanted to write songs but have never…

Some of our most profound experiences are gracefully simple and some are stranger than fiction. How do we make sense of our life experiences and how do we record them? What voice do we use to tell our life story and what format? After we muster the courage and humor to record our memoirs, how…

Join author Sally Collins for an afternoon of tapping into your own experiences and memories to create compelling, complex, and authentic fiction, no matter the genre. “Write what you know,” the old saying goes — but sometimes it’s a struggle. Over the course of the workshop, you will examine the fiction of authors throughout the…

Telling stories is something that we all do. Storytelling is a wonderful way to think about who you are, what you have done, and what is next for you in your life. Think of it as an organized reflection on your life. Prompts and presentations will stimulate memories and, together, we will write and tell…

Telling stories is something that we all do. Storytelling is a wonderful way to think about who you are, what you have done, and what is next for you in your life. Think of it as an organized reflection on your life. Prompts and presentations will stimulate memories and, together, we will write and tell…