Writing Workshops for the Holidays!
New Year Workshop; sale on Self-Guided Speculative Nonfiction; plus Gift Cards!
Happy holidays, everyone! I hope you’re faring well this December, that there is some joy, love, and community in there amidst it all. (And if you’re not faring all that well, I understand, and I hope you’re giving yourself grace.)
If you’re in the market to give yourself or a loved one the gift of some time, space, and community to support your writing—keep reading! We have gift cards; a sale ending on Wednesday; and generative workshops for your New Year.
Wishing all of us peace,
Joanna
Some gift ideas for you:
GIFT CARDS from $40 [New this year!]
A perfect holiday gift for the writer in your life!
These gift cards can be used for any available course offering— the New Year Women’s Writing Retreat; Winter/Spring 2024 Generative Writing Workshops; Writing Beyond the Known (self-guided). Spring courses in essay and memoir are also forthcoming! (Spring guided courses in essay and memoir will be up on the website in late January.)
NEW YEAR WRITING RETREAT FOR WOMEN [Five spots left!]
Let's write together! In this one-day Zoom retreat, we will generate material for essays, poems, or flash fiction. Using models from a variety of genres, as well as visual art, we will spend the afternoon writing.
Cost: $60 ($40 for paid subscribers to this Substack; message me for discount code.)
Date: Saturday, January 6 | 1:00PM – 3:30PM Eastern Time
SELF-GUIDED// Writing Beyond the Known: Exploring the Possible through Speculative Nonfiction
$45.00 Early bird/$50 Regular price
Early bird price ends December 20, 2023.
Course dates: January 21 - February 19, 2024
Formerly offered through Creative Nonfiction, I’m now offering my Speculative Nonfiction course as a self-guided class through Muse. The self-guided version I designed for Creative Nonfiction has been hugely popular— I have received lovely feedback!— and I’m excited to offer it here!
In this self-guided course you will explore the elastic quality of the essay form as you delve into the ways metaphor, speculation, and imaginative play can enliven your writing and help you explore your values, fascinations, and imaginings. In our approach to speculative nonfiction, we will work with strategies for capturing the slippery quality of the individual writer’s passage through time and the sometimes surreal quality of existence. Students will experiment with techniques such as unexpected figurative language; associative memory; leaps across time; combining genres and mediums; and the writing of daydreams, fantasies, dreams, and imaginings. In this class, you will explore what these techniques allow you to access, as you map the territories of inner worlds and the possibilities of the world we share. As we proceed, our interest will be not in misrepresenting the true events of the past, but in using a variety of techniques to explore the edges of what we know and can imagine.
Four-week self-guided course. Before the class begins, you will receive instructions on how to access the course through the Wet Ink platform.
WINTER/SPRING 2024 Drop-In Generative Writing Workshops
$40.00 per session/ $25 for paid subscribers
Together, we will look at short texts (poems, flash memoir, flash fiction), and then I will provide writing prompts and we will do timed writing exercises. Sharing your writing is encouraged but entirely voluntary!
These two-hour workshops will happen on the last Saturday of the month from January 2024 to April 2024, 1-3pm Eastern. The sessions can be taken separately or together.
Paid subscribers to this Substack also receive a discount. [Contact me for the discount code.]
Schedule
Saturday, January 27th
Saturday, February 24th
Saturday, March 23rd
Saturday, April 27th
All meetings take place at 1pm-3pm Eastern time.
Cost
$40 per drop-in session// $25 for paid Substack subscribers
All four for $120// $75 for paid Substack subscribers
No refunds for missed sessions, but I will record each session for that day’s participants.