Workshops

Immerse yourself in the realm nonfiction. We'll explore writing personal essays, narratives, reflections, opinion pieces, articles, and more.

Expand your personal story into writing that will resonate with others. You’ll learn how to create a structure for your memoir and give shape to your memories and experiences. Every life lived is a story worth telling. For beginner and advanced writers alike. Let’s take the journey together!

Writing immersed in the beauty of a vineyard offers writers an inspiring space to work, create, and share. Writers can focus on works in progress or cultivate new ideas. Each session will focus on a particular nonfiction theme.

Share your gardening journey through the written word. You’ll write about your first introduction to gardening, your most memorable gardening experiences, why you cherish gardening, mishaps and lessons learned, and more. This workshop is for the devoted gardener who wants to leave their gardening legacy on paper - sharing your experience, wisdom, joy, and memories – and many pages in between.

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Always wanted to start a blog? A blog is a great way to showcase your talents, unique perspective, and most of all, your writing! We’ll decide on a focus for your blog, and you’ll learn to captivate, educate, entertain, and inspire your readers.

Your life can be expressed in an anthology of “tiny tales.” Your collected short stories can be grouped around a common theme or certain era of your life, or just be “slice of life” reflections, essays, and narratives - there are no rules! We’ll work on finding a focus for your collection, polishing your craft, discovering your true voice, and more.

Maybe it’s time to document a journey – or several journeys over time - and the experiences and discoveries that came with it. Travel memoirs can include themes of self-discovery, cultural exploration, or reconnecting with one's home country. Your story through travel should have a central theme or message - what you learned, how you changed, what you discovered, the people you met along the way and how they impacted your life. Get ready to tell your travel tales…

Share your experiences with food through the lens of memory and imagination. Food memoirs can reflect on the events, relationships, emotions, and thoughts tied to food, cooking, and eating, and can also explore your growth and change over time. Use your narrative to convey your food journey using personal stories, foibles, words of wisdom, and often times recipes to anchor your path along the way.

Humor serves as a daily lubricant that makes everything else bearable. There’s humor in almost any situation, and we will explore how to find it and express it in your writing. we’ll read comedic writers such as Erma Bombeck and David Sedaris. You’ll learn how to tap into your own unique sense of humor, make something funny even funnier, understand how subtle tweaks of word choice and pacing make a difference, and other techniques. So let’s look through the humorous lens together and find your funny!

Learn techniques that will help you write authentic, powerful stories. We'll review fundamentals and work on using strong beginnings and endings, authentic dialogue, powerful verbs, how to show and not tell, finding your true voice, and more.

Writing can be a therapeutic tool to effectively find clarity, achieve balance, release stress, and process challenging experiences. We’ll explore self-care writing practices such as journaling, use of writing prompts, sources of inspiration, and exercises to foster creativity and remove roadblocks. Get ready to write, heal, grow, and transform your life!