Although writing can be healing, crafting and publishing our most difficult stories can make trauma worse. In this 4-hour workshop hosted over Zoom, learn how the physiological processes of trauma and shame interact with a writing process and use tools adapted from clinical practice to begin safely generating your own work.

Although writing can be healing, crafting and publishing our most difficult stories can make trauma worse. In this 4-hour workshop hosted over Zoom, learn how the physiological processes of trauma and shame interact with a writing process and use tools adapted from clinical practice to begin safely generating your own work.

Our most powerful stories can be the most brutal to write, leaving us frustrated, emotionally activated, and stuck. What gets in the way? How can we push forward without damaging our mental and physical health? In this 4-hour workshop hosted in-person by Paonia Books in Paonia, Colorado, we'll build a toolbox for unlocking urgent stories that have so far resisted telling.

Although writing can be healing, crafting and publishing our most difficult stories can make trauma worse. In this 2-hour workshop hosted by the Deschutes Public Library, learn how the physiological processes of trauma and shame interact with a writing process.

How can we ethically write about other people—and what does it mean to do it well? In this 6-hour workshop, explore the craft of building nuanced characters, consider the legal or logistical implications of your storytelling, and reckon with owning your story’s difficult truths.

In this three-hour seminar, you'll see how cutting changes the flow of a work, examine how adding intentional language steers readers into a book's questions, and practice line-level tightening on a sample from your own work, leaving class with a grounded sense of how to streamline and guide your own memoir-in-process.

How can we ethically write about other people—and what does it mean to do it well? In this 3-hour virtual workshop at the Portland Book Festival, writers explore the craft of building nuanced characters, reckon with owning their stories’ difficult truths, and consider the legal or logistical implications of their storytelling.

In this 3-hour virtual memoir seminar hosted by Literary Arts and the Portland Book Festival, students will explore how the contradictions in their personalities—the gaps between dirty laundry and grace—are the most interesting space, and how careful and brave craft choices allow us to write into our most gorgeous, complex selves.

How can we ethically write about other people—and what does it mean to do it well? In this 3-hour virtual workshop, writers explore the craft of building nuanced characters, reckon with owning their stories’ difficult truths, and consider the legal or logistical implications of their storytelling.

In this 3-hour virtual memoir seminar hosted by Hugo House, students will explore how the contradictions in their personalities—the gaps between dirty laundry and grace—are the most interesting space, and how careful and brave craft choices allow us to write into our most gorgeous, complex selves.

How can we ethically write about other people—and what does it mean to do it well? In this 3-hour virtual workshop, writers explore the craft of building nuanced characters, reckon with owning their stories’ difficult truths, and consider the legal or logistical implications of their storytelling.

In this 90-minute gathering, writers have the opportunity to ask Kati their questions— whether craft questions about writing trauma, illness, and sexuality; the way a writing life intersects spiritual invitations; or what it means to put our work in the world at this moment.