When what used to work no longer works, rather than turn away from your creative practice, turn inward with compassion. 

For All Writers

The physical, emotional, and psychological effects of perimenopause and menopause touch every aspect of the life of the person living through it. For many, this period feels like an unraveling, a time when change is demanded in many different ways, and our writing is not exempt. 

We may have changes in lifestyles, schedules, health, or personal responsibilities that have required us to shift the ways we used to write. We may discover that we want something different than what we’ve been pursuing or that our current values are no longer aligned with our earlier years. Even the ways we use language may change. This can feel at best destabilizing, at worst, terrifying. Who am I becoming? What do I need to say? What do I no longer need to say? What if I have nothing left to say?

In an environment where artists are encouraged to “stay in their lane,” creating similar content (especially if they’re achieving external success), we may be afraid to try something new or lose hope and connection to one thing that has always kept us tethered to ourselves: our writing.

In the natural pause and unspooling that comes with menopause and aging, we can let the changes teach us their secrets and grow in unexpected ways—both with our craft and our content. Our writing voices, interests, and routines will change. Learn to move into those changes with ease and compassion for yourself and for your writing. Using gentle questions and generative prompts, we’ll honor where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going next.

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

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In this webinar, you will:

• EXAMINE how peri/post-menopausal changes impact your writing
• EXPLORE ways in which you’ve changed as a writer during this season of life
• LEARN ways to be at ease with the natural pauses and changes in a writing life
• IDENTIFY a key shift in your own life story
• CONNECT that shift to your creative work
• REFLECT on questions to imagine new work and new ways of creating

This webinar is ideal for writers…

• feeling the impact of (peri)menopause on the way they relate to writing
• curious about how (peri)menopause can be an invitation to new ways of storytelling
• who feel disconnected from the writer they used to be
• who are moving into a new stage in their work or life
• who feel boxed in to being a certain kind of writer or working in a certain genre

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. 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. She’s a retired professor of creative writing and psychology, and has worked with writers for thirty years. She’s also an illustrator and a grief counselor, and creator of The Grief Forest: a book about what we don’t talk about. She 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. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Tiferet, The Rumpus, The Manifest-Station, and many more places. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Counseling Psychology, and lives in the mountains of northern Arizona with many cats.

Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com

FULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process.

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