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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Writing with Your Ghosts: Turning Hauntings into Portals
DESCRIPTION:The questions\, voices\, places\, and ideas that haunt you are a roadmap into the deepest layers of your writing. \n\n\n\nFor All Writers \n\n\n\nAs writers\, we have themes and questions that we return to over and over again in our work. Sometimes this can feel limiting\, but what if what you can’t shake off is meant to stick?  Our “hauntings” are threads we’re holding that haven’t found their pattern. Writing is one of many ways we weave their patterns so they can rest. \n\n\n\nWhat may feel common or repetitive is really the foundation of everything that is ours. These recurring themes contain the portals to our strongest stories.  Let’s look at what we can learn from the things that haunt us and populate our unique writer’s point of view. \n\n\n\nIn this generative writing workshop\, we will engage with exercises that help you meet and get to know the things that haunt you and your work. Not only will you name and dialogue with a haunting or two\, but you’ll also learn ways to turn your hauntings into generative writing portals\, create three fresh approaches to an old question\, and take a short detour through the work of Georgia O’Keeffe’s skull paintings. \n\n\n\nCome prepared to explore the other worlds that live inside of you! \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE questions and themes that haunt you\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY a common thread among your obsessions\n\n\n\nREFLECT on the use of a single subject in the skull paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe\n\n\n\nLEARN HOW to re-energize what feels familiar and stale\n\n\n\nCREATE three different writing approaches to one of your hauntings \n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who…\n\n\n\n\nAre curious about the secrets hidden in their hauntings \n\n\n\nFeel their work has become repetitive\n\n\n\nAre seeking new approaches to their writing themes\n\n\n\nWant to learn how to re-energize a familiar topic\n\n\n\nAre feeling stuck inside a single story\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaraine 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. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Finding and Writing Your Joy: The Unexpected\, the Inexplicable\, and the Lovely
DESCRIPTION:For All Writers \n\n\n\nThere is no darkness without light. Find the light\, and write it.\n\n\n\nWe can forget\, when the world presses hard upon us\, that one of our responsibilities is to locate joy. To feel it. And\, if we are writers\, to make room for it on our pages. In this craft workshop we’ll rediscover the joy in writers like Brian Doyle\, Ross Gay\, and Mary Oliver\, explore how language works to connect ourselves and our readers with joy\, and bring our voices to the page with complexity and surprise. \n\n\n\nWe’ll think of joy in all its manifestations—as happiness\, as light\, as entertainment\, as awareness\, as epiphany. We’ll pause to consider simple prompts. We’ll think about the pairing of joyful verbs and the avoidance of cliché. We’ll find joy\, together. A workshop for all ages\, all genres\, and all frames of mind. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nREDISCOVER the writers who have mastered joy\n\n\n\nBECOME PROFICIENT in surprising turns of phrase\n\n\n\nLEARN HOW to modulate your voice—soft to loud\, loud to exultant\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who are…\n\n\n\n\nSeeking to build complexity into their work\n\n\n\nWishing to sidestep cliche as they write toward joy\n\n\n\nHoping to more completely access and write their emotional life\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Kephart is the award-winning writer of three dozen books in multiple genres\, an award-winning teacher of memoir\, and a paper artist. She is the author\, most recently\, of Wife|Daughter|Self: A Memoir in Essays\, My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera\, and Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News: A Philadelphia Story\, as well as a series of craft books. Find her art and her musings on language and life at her Substack\, The Hush and the Howl. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/finding-and-writing-joy/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | How to End a Memoir: Finding Closure Without Cliché
DESCRIPTION:For Memorists \n\n\n\nGreat memoirs don’t just stop—they land. Learn how to craft conclusions that feel earned\, emotionally true\, and satisfying.\n\n\n\nEndings are where memoirs earn their meaning. They show us not only what happened\, but also what it all added up to—how the writer has changed\, what they’ve learned\, and where the story leaves them (and us).  \n\n\n\nYet endings are also one of the hardest parts to get right. How do we bring emotional closure without tying things up too neatly? How do we signal growth and understanding without drifting into cliché or sentimentality?. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE how endings satisfy readers\, with examples from published memoirs.\n\n\n\nEXAMINE three powerful approaches to endings.\n\n\n\nFIND the ending form that best fits your story’s emotional truth.\n\n\n\nLEARN HOW to create resolution\, even in the absence of recovery.\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY common pitfalls in memoir endings \n\n\n\nLEARN THE CRAFT of conclusions that feel resonant\, true\, and earned.\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers with complete or near-complete memoir drafts…\n\n\n\n\nWhose endings feel flat\, rushed\, or too neatly tied up\n\n\n\nWho want to craft endings that echo emotionally without turning sentimental\n\n\n\nReady to move beyond “summary endings” to endings that feel inevitable\, earned\, and alive\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKATIE BANNON is a writer\, editor\, and educator whose work has appeared in The Washington Post\, The Rumpus\, ELLE Magazine\, Narratively\, and more. Her memoir manuscript\, which charts her journey as a compulsive hair puller\, was a finalist for the Permafrost Nonfiction Book Prize. A graduate of GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator\, she holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Emerson College. She loves helping memoirists and essayists tell their most vulnerable\, taboo stories. She lives in Central Massachusetts with her partner and two cats.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/how-to-end-memoir/
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