Author: Sharla Yates

Deepen your writing and discover stories your body knew all along.

for Creative Nonfiction

Our body is the most reliable record-keeper of life experiences, much more so than our brain and what we like to call “memory.” For writers, our embodied experience is a vast and often-overlooked treasure chest of powerful stories.

Learn the importance of tapping into the treasure chest that is your body and how useful it can be to mine your body parts to re-member, or make whole, past experiences that have brought you to this point in your life. Together, we will consider excerpts from authors whose bodies feed remembering, and whose beautiful, memorable writing inspires us by its sheer physicality.

Become energized to dig into your own exclusive story archive with body-focused writing prompt ideas to explore in your own writing practice after the webinar. Gain a new set of tools for accessing your stories by collaborating with your eyes, belly, hips, or feet, etc., and discover the wonder of your body’s evocative abilities to turn forgotten incidents into vividly remembered scenes for richer, more visceral essays and memoir.

In this webinar, you will:

• LEARN the body’s ability to “keep the score” of our experiences
• ACQUIRE tools to collaborate with your body in finding stories
• DISCOVER the generative wealth of materials for your story
• BECOME empowered to start your own body-writing journey
• HEAR inspirational examples of embodied writing

This webinar is ideal for…

• Want to explore new ways to access memory and story
• Seek to deepen their stories
• Are curious about what “writing the body” or “embodied writing” is about
• Have been reluctant to consider their bodies a valuable collaborator
• Want to get out of their head!

Closed captioning is available. ✔
All registrants receive the recording. ✔

ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER

Nina B. Lichtenstein (PhD. MFA) is a recovering academic and the founder and director of Maine Writers Studio, offering workshops, retreats, and book doula services. A native of Oslo, Norway, she is an award-winning teacher who has taught literature, languages, and writing on three continents. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, and her memoir, Body: My Life in Parts is a memoir-in-essays published by Vine Leaves Press in May 2025. 

Nina also runs a monthly literary salon and open mic in Brunswick, Maine, and enjoys connecting folks in a warm and welcoming literary community.

Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com

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Maintain and nurture your relationship with your writing to strengthen your stories and ease your creative process.

This webinar is part of the season pass. Interested in joining the subscription? Read more here.

For all writers

Every relationship has its ups and downs, and your relationship with your writing is no exception. We sometimes grow apart through life’s changes, schedule shifts, or that nagging feeling that there must be something more out there. 

It’s normal to find that what worked in our creative process ten years ago no longer feels right and to experience cycles of connection and disconnection. It’s what we do next that makes all the difference. It’s time to check in and honestly assess what’s working in our creative relationship and what’s not. To clarify what helps us write—and why—and establish a healthy and rewarding relationship with our creation. 

Writers know that we need our writing to be at its best, but what we often don’t acknowledge is that our writing also needs us. Explore what it means to be in the right relationship with our writing, why it matters, and how to chart a flexible path forward together with communication, clarity and commitment. This experiential, process-based workshop includes generative writing exercises to help you reconnect with your writing, honoring the changes both of you have gone through over the course of your life together.

Can’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants.

We will be writing during this webinar! Come with an open mind, an active imagination, and writing tools.

In this webinar, you will:

• EXPLORE your relationship with writing
• DISCOVER key techniques to maintain a flexible, committed writing practice
• INQUIRE into your changing writing relationship through generative prompts and invitations
• RECOMMIT to yourself and your writing

You should take this webinar if:

• You feel disconnected from your writing or unmotivated
• You used to have a writing process that worked, but now you’re struggling to connect with your words
• You value writing as a means of self-inquiry and discovery.
• You’re looking for ways to invigorate a lackluster writing practice

Closed captioning is available. ✔
All registrants receive the recording. ✔

ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER

Laraine Herring’s memoir, A Constellation of Ghosts: A Speculative Memoir with Ravens, was released in 2021 from Regal House. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Tiferet, The Rumpus, The Manifest-Station, and many more. She’s the editor of the anthology Becoming Real: Women Reclaim the Power of the Imagined through Speculative Nonfiction (Pact Press, 2024), and a trilogy of writing books from Shambhala, including Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice. 
A retired professor of creative writing and psychology, Laraine founded the online ‘zine Hags on Fire, a place for women to share stories about menopause, and co-designed The Imaginal Memoir Cave immersion program with Gayle Brandeis. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Counseling Psychology, and lives in the mountains of northern Arizona with many cats.

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Enhance your writing and engage your audience with the power of essential questions that captivate and connect with readers. 

This webinar is part of the season pass. Interested in joining the subscription? Read more here.

Memoir, Fiction and Screenplays

Elizabeth Gilbert credits the runaway success of “Eat, Pray, Love” to her essential question—“What if my life belonged to me?” It worked for her—let’s make it work for you. To capture the attention of a broader audience and make your writing resonate more deeply with readers, discover the transformative power of essential questions to elevate your storytelling and expand your readership. 

In this webinar, we’ll examine essential questions in bestselling works, primarily focusing on memoir, with a sprinkling of fiction and film. We’ll discuss the difference between implicit and explicit questions and explore techniques for placing these questions in your scenes and narrative. 

You’ll finish this webinar equipped with an expansive list of essential questions and the motivation and inspiration to use them to elevate your writing today!

Can’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants.

In this webinar, you will:

• DISCOVER why essential questions lead to increased engagement for readers (and appeal to publishers)
• LEARN the difference between implicit and explicit questions
• ANALYZE how bestselling books effectively use essential questions
• RECEIVE an expansive list of essential questions to apply to any and all writing projects
• GET INSPIRED to harness the power of essential questions

This webinar is a great fit for writers of fiction & nonfiction including screenwriters who are…

• Looking to enhance their storytelling skills and engage readers more deeply.
• Seeking new strategies to broaden their audience and increase their work’s appeal.
• Wanting to stand out in a competitive market by using essential questions to convince agents, editors, and publishers that there’s a readership for their work.

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All registrants receive the recording. ✔

ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER

Jennifer Leigh Selig is an LBGTQ+ teacher, international speaker, book publisher, and author whose writing and teaching career spans four decades. She’s the author of dozens of newspaper articles, book reviews, essays, journal articles, short stories, screenplays, and books, including the Nautilus Gold award-winning book, Deep Creativity: Seven Ways to Spark Your Creative Spirit, The Writer’s Block Workbook: A Psychologist’s Guide to Working With and Through Writer’s Block, and Deep Memoir: An Archetypal Approach to Deepen Your Story and Broaden Its Appeal.

Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com

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