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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
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/writing-with-your-ghosts/
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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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SUMMARY:The Writers Bridge | From Zero to 100K Followers: Midlife Social Media
DESCRIPTION:How to build your presence and get a book deal–by doing what you actually enjoy.\n\n\n\nHow can a midlife writer make a dent on social media? \n\n\n\nBy showing up.  \n\n\n\nWhen Lucie Frost first tried to sell her memoir\, she heard the dreaded “not enough platform.” And she didn’t want to violate her own privacy or get trapped into following fads.  \n\n\n\nInstead\, she focused on what drove her writing: curiosity. Her Instagram and TikTok appearances\, sharing what she wanted to know and why\, built a multi-generational audience of inquisitive readers\, ready for her book\, How the Hell Did I Not Know That: My Midlife Year from Couch to Curiosity. \n\n\n\nIn this months’ Writers Bridge\, Lucie will share the tips and tricks she used to feel comfortable and happy building her platform\, how she protected her online self\, and how that platform led to a traditional publishing deal. She’ll also answer all your questions about how you can do it\, too!  \n\n\n\nJoin us TUESDAY November 25th at 1PM EASTERN – live and FREE on Zoom\, all welcome! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur special guest \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLucie Frost is a no-longer-practicing lawyer and the author of How the Hell Did I Not Know That? (Trinity University Press\, August 2025). \n\n\n\nShe has written humor and satire for NextTribe\, Slackjaw\, The Belladonna\, Points in Case\, Emrys Journal\, and others. She is active on social media\, with 100k+ engaged followers across various platforms. \n\n\n\nShe lives in Central Texas with her three needy\, delightful dogs. \n\n\n\nJoin your hosts Allison K Williams (SEVEN DRAFTS)\, Sharla Yates (CRAFT TALKS) and our special guest for this lively\, funny hour of frank talk about writing comedy\, writing for TV\, and the wonderful chaos of the writers’ room. \n\n\n\nFREE\, all welcome! Sign up to receive the Zoom link the day before. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnjoy past recorded sessions here\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison K Williams has edited and coached authors to publishing deals with Penguin Random House\, Knopf\, Mantle\, St. Martin’s Press\, and numerous small presses. An expert in author marketing and community building\, her platform includes the Brevity Blog (80k+ followers)\, Instagram (10k+)\, a mailing list (12k+)\, and Facebook (5k+)\, with publications in the New York Times and appearances on NPR and CBC. Her book\, Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book\, sold on proposal. She leads the Rebirth Your Book writing retreats and co-hosts The Writers Bridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharla Yates is the author of the poetry chapbook What I Would Say if We Were to Drown Tonight\, published by Stranded Oak Press (2017). She hosts a webinar series\, CRAFT TALKS for writers on writing\, and co-hosts The Writers Bridge with Allison K Williams. Her nonfiction essay\, “Address” was a finalist for the 2015 Columbia Journal writing contest and the 2016 Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award. She is the former Director of Education at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation and teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@craft-talks.com \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/bridge-midlife-social/
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