Classes

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Family History With Imagination

On Zoom · Sept 30, 2023 · 1 PM to 4 PM ET

$65 · Miami Book Fair Online

It’s entirely possible to write factually about complex family history and harms while making space for creativity. Come explore ways of integrating empiricism, feeling, and imagination. Bring a pen, notebook, and index cards. Also, facts, questions, feelings, intuitions, synchronicities, speculations, and a sense of play. Limited to 15 students. Scholarships available.


Ancestors, Inspiration, and the Thinning Veil: A Ritual

On Zoom · Oct 28, 2023 · 1:30 to 3:30 PM ET

$35

This ritual, held as the autumn solstice approaches, honors the earth and the season, cultivates connection to spirit and the sacred, and invites inspiration and direction for writing and life in the year ahead. An online ritual community will provide an extended container for sharing. Scholarships available.


Image reads Family History with Imagination It's entirely possible to write factually about complex family history while making space for creativity. Come explore ways of integrating empiricism, feeling, and imagination into your narrative. Bring a pen, notebook, index cards. Also, facts, questions, feelings, intuitions, speculations, and a sense of play. Suggested reading available a week in advance. On Zoom ~ Sunday 6/18 ~ 1-4 PM ET ~ $50 @maudnewton ~ maudnewton.com/offerings

Family History With Imagination

On Zoom · Jun 18, 2023

Past Class

It’s entirely possible to write factually about complex family history and harms while making space for creativity. Come explore ways of integrating empiricism, feeling, and imagination. Bring a pen, notebook, and index cards. Also, facts, questions, feelings, intuitions, synchronicities, speculations, and a sense of play. Scholarships available.


Writing About Ancestor Trouble

On Zoom · Jan 4 to Mar 7, 2023

Past Class

This open-genre writing class focuses on acknowledging troubled family histories honestly, open-heartedly, and with imagination. The objective is to help students move ever-closer to the story they want to tell. The focus is on cultivating an immersive and generative relationship to the histories that feed your writing. Scholarships available.



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