The Audience Writes We stood at the corner of Park and King at the Jax By Jax Literary Festival on Saturday afternoon, hoping it wouldn't rain on us, and invited festival participants to tell their stories. We wanted to give ordinary folks a chance to write and be heard at the festival, so we invited them to create a six-word memoir, to join in to a community poem about Jacksonville to … [Read more...]
We Must Learn to Speak Again, In Poetry
“...She must learn again to speak starting with I starting with We starting as the infant does with her own true hunger and pleasure and rage.” — Marge Piercy We Must Learn to Speak Again As part of each writing circle, we create a group collective poem from our “Readback lines,” the phrases we hear each other say in our writing that speak to us more directly and are repeated … [Read more...]
Memoir, in Words and Art, Focus of Fall Semester
It's shocking but true: Only TWO percent of the art in our national museums is by women. To help right this wrong, we've created a new platform for local female artists to display their work right here at Women Writing for (a) Change. New Platform for Art plus Writing for Women We've begun by featuring two storyteller artists as part of our Writing The Memoir: From Truth to Art fall … [Read more...]
Writing the Memoir: New Fall Classes
“I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and forms in all my work. Without telling everything that happened, they document all that remains most vivid.” —bell hooks, author of Bone Black Registration Now Open! It seems we’ve struck a nerve: So many women wanted to write in the Memoir class … [Read more...]
New Transitions Class at the Beach!
Writing Through Transitions We are pleased to offer a new writing circle for women experiencing life changes, whether from a career shift, newly empty nest, divorce, death of a spouse or parent, moving, or any other significant life transition. Writing can be a powerful tool for understanding life’s changes, and in this circle, you will find a supportive group of women with whom to share your … [Read more...]
Two New Summer Classes Offered!
Our fall classes are filling up fast, but take heart—we've got two new classes we're offering this summer! One focuses on new folks, and one is for alums who need to “maintain their writer’s shape” over the long summer. More details below. Summer Sampler on June 13 New to Women Writing for (a) Change, Jax? Please attend our upcoming Summer Sampler 2017: Telling Your Story. We'll be introducing … [Read more...]