AUGUST 2025 WORKSHOPS
”Looking for a ship” writing a nonfiction book phase 1
Sundays August 3, 10, 17, 24
12-2PM EST (VIRTUAL)
sliding scale $600-1,000
If you’re in the early stages of writing your nonfiction book, you might feel a little green about the gills. It can be an overwhelming stage, and it’s a harmful misunderstanding that writers work alone and must be in pain through it all.
In this small group, month-long workshop we’ll come together around all of your worries and excitement, discussing our blocks, questions, and specific projects, to set you up for much smoother sailing for the rest of your book journey. I’ve designed this workshop so you can work throughout the month to make progress on your book foundations, or take away what we learn to go at your own pace. This works for you on your schedule, in your stage, and in your creative process.
For the first three weeks, we’ll cover the foundational book work that I’ve done with all of the writers I’ve worked with who have completed their books: finding the force, arc, and driving question of your book; understanding your reader and their role in your process; establishing your position as the author and where this book is coming from; learning all the options around outlines and how they can actually help and not stress us out; and more about our reasoning, motivations, and hopeful connections.
In our final week, we’ll talk about the future of your book, articulating your book for agents and others, and what comes next: drafting. Once you’ve gotten into this foundational work, you’ll see that you are already writing your book, and the rest is how to continue ; )
For each two-hour session we’ll engage in fun and open discussion, sharing, and exercises, and I will provide you with detailed work each week to complete your book foundations on your own timeline!
“He Put His Ear to Water Almost Weeping” Poetry for Nonfiction Writers
Saturday, August 9
2-6pm EST (virtual)
sliding scale $150-350
I sometimes say that nonfiction writers can learn pretty much everything from reading poetry—if only they would! Join me for a half-day workshop to learn how to read poetry not for ‘comprehension’ but for resonance, image, idea, and transport—elements that will deepen your nonfiction craft and relationship with writing. This workshop will also allow you to experience how the embodied nature of poetry can enrich your own writing practice in any genre or for any purpose. We’ll see how this reading and writing style can inspire new work of your own ✨
I know how many of you used to read poetry and stopped, or wish you could but are afraid, or think, ‘it’s not for me.’ You tell me all about it! So I made this for you. This workshop is designed for those with some interest and blocks around reading poetry, and those curious how poetry can help their nonfiction craft and their writing practice.
If you are not new to poetry but have been trained to read poetry in the traditional workshop style or are interested in a new way of reading, you are very, very welcome to join! Open to ALL writers who are curious!