Channel Your Passions into Purposeful Writing...to Right the World!
New four-session online class starts September 30! Plus: 2025 international writing retreat schedule announced!
Do you ever feel like one of those cartoon characters with the smoke coming out of your years? Just so over the top with outrage and conviction?
When that happens to me, I just HAVE to sit down and write, like I did this morning in my Spirit of Education Substack, when my frustration and compassion for Afghan women and girls came pouring out of me in a post aimed at reminding readers about what is happening there and how important it is that we who have the freedom to raise our voices do so, now.
In other words, I sat down and did a little of my own "writing to right the world."
I can't know if my words will help change the life of an Afghan girl who is forbidden from attending school past sixth grade; but I do believe that when we open our hearts through passionate, compassionate creative expression, something in the balance of the world shifts, just a little.
And enough of those little shifts, put together, can lead to a groundswell, a veritable earthquake of change.
That's why I'm glad to be offering a powerful live online version of my popular college course, "Writing to Right the World," in a four-session series starting Monday September 30, 6 - 7:30 pm.
Writing to Right the World, Fall 2024
In a series of four lively classes, learn how to turn passion to purpose; find the genre that best fits your creative and activist goals; cultivate a powerful community that will help you amplify your voice and vision; and get valuable feedback on your ideas and drafts.
Class One: Finding Purpose Through Passion
Monday, September 30, 6 – 7:30 pm Eastern
Class Two: Finding the Most Effective Genre and Voice
Monday, October 21, 6 – 7:30 pm Eastern
Class Three: Finding allies and joining the conversation
Monday, November 18, 6 – 7:30 pm Eastern
Class Four: Draft workshop for worldwrights
Monday, December 16, 6 – 7:30 pm Eastern
There’s no time like the present to become the worldwright you were meant to be!
The cost for all four live online classes is $149. Registrants will have access to the recordings.
Also coming up:
Ask Us Anything About...Publishing!
Thursday, September 26, 7 - 8 pm Eastern
At this free online session, co-hosted by Audrey Kalman at Birth Your Truest Story, I'll be wearing my Green Fire Press publisher hat, as well as sharing what I've learned through publishing books with trade and university presses. Bring your questions and join the conversation! Register here.
Drumroll please…
2025 International Writing Retreat Schedule
Because we can't stay glued to our desks all the time!
Come get away from your screen and give your creative spirit a much-needed boost with one of these upcoming trips!
Riding & Writing in the Azores
January 4 - 11, 2025
Click here or the photo above to find out all the details about this trip to the magnificent Patio Ecolodge on Faial Island, Portugal. Reserve your spot now!
Riding & Writing in Iceland!
June 2 - 8, 2025
Click here or the photo above, from my 2024 Riding & Writing retreat at Hestaland, Iceland, to find out all the details and how to reserve your spot on this awesome creative tonic of a trip!
The Art & Craft of Purposeful Memoir: Annual Tuscan Memoir Retreat
September 27 - October 4, 2025
Click here or the photo above (a detail from the floor of the Duomo in Siena) to find out all the details and how to reserve your spot at our dreamy private villa in Tuscany!
Writing workshops you can count on to stimulate your creative spirit!
In my writing workshops, whether in-person or online, you get the benefit of my decades of teaching lively small-group, discussion-based college literature and writing classes.
My classes are interactive and thought-provoking, cultivating writing that is intuitive, generative and organic—emerging from within rather than based on an artificial structure imposed from without.
In my writers’ circles, I create a warm, welcoming atmosphere and carefully structured opportunities for instructor and peer feedback that is non-evaluative but highly effective and productive. Sharing is encouraged but always optional, and confidentiality is a must.
My students are often surprised at how much they are able to produce in my workshops, and how deeply they are able to tap their own inner reservoirs of stories, images and metaphors. Try it and see for yourself!
Friends, it’s my pleasure and my passion to support you as we stretch towards living our lives creatively and to the fullest.
The motto of my author consulting business is “Writing to Right the World,” and the motto of my book publishing business, Green Fire Press, is “Books that Make the World Better.”
If these intentions resonate with you and you are working on a book, or have one in mind, don’t hesitate to get in touch!
Supporting creative people bring their work more strongly out into the world is one way I try to make the world better.
