Writing the Past

Writing Family History Workshop

Perhaps you’ve come across a photo or a family heirloom that intrigues you. Maybe you’ve found your immigrant grandparents’ citizenship papers. Or perhaps you can’t stop thinking about the last time you saw Cousin Ellen at Aunt Helen’s funeral and the conversation did not go well. Maybe that story Uncle Irving told you about your great-grandparents still commands your attention. Or that cookbook your mother inherited that became the basis of holiday meals.

In each session, we’ll write to timed prompts to help you put your thoughts on the page. Family history can be preserved forever if someone, maybe you, writes it down.

Submission Party!

Join fellow writers in a nurturing hour to send your literary work out into the world! At the onset of the hour, we’ll share our submission goals. Then we’ll go off to do the work and return to share and celebrate what we’ve accomplished.

Writing to Themed Prompts: A Potpourri from Literary Magazine Calls for Submissions

Many literary magazines have calls for submissions for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction on certain themes. Whole issues could be devoted to these themes or just special sections. These themed calls provide focus and offer perhaps easier entry, because there tends to be less competition for themed submissions. Join me for this four-week series where I’ll curate literary magazine themed prompts and we’ll write to them using the AWA method.