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Sunday Afternoon Core Class
with Janie Baer
Core Class is where you find your writing community! Facilitators create a welcoming space with inspiration, writing prompts, small groups for feedback, and opportunities to read and listen in community.
- Class runs: Virtually, for 6 sessions - Sep 13 & 20, Oct 4 & 18, Nov 1 & 15. Note, the first two classes are one week apart and the remaining 4 classes are biweekly.
- Open to: All Genders, Ages 18+
From the Facilitator: Janie Baer walked into her first Women Writing for (a) Change class around 20 years ago unable to share a word of my writing. I had almost but not quite lost access to my voice. But at Wwfac I found that voice — strong, clear, quirky, and mine. I want this for everyone in our circles.
PRICING POLICY: We use a three tier pricing structure based on your financial circumstance. During registration, please select the tier that feels most true to your current financial ability. Learn more here.
Tuesday Morning Core Class
with Sally Schneider
Core Class is where you find your writing community! Facilitators create a welcoming space with inspiration, writing prompts, small groups for feedback, and opportunities to read and listen in community.
- Class runs: Virtually, for 10 weeks
- Open to: Women & Nonbinary, Ages 18+
About the Facilitator: Sally Schneider fell in love with WWfaC at first sight during a free sampler in 2000! Continuing the courtship in core class, Sally found her voice, gained confidence, and grew both as a writer and as a human. The relationship deepened in Women Writing’s leadership training and fully blossomed when Sally joined the faculty in 2007. Almost 20 years later, the relationship continues to flourish as Sally witnesses other lives transforming through WWfaC magic!
PRICING POLICY: We use a three tier pricing structure based on your financial circumstance. During registration, please select the tier that feels most true to your current financial ability. Learn more here.
Tuesday Afternoon Core Class
with Diane Debevec
Core Class is where you find your writing community! Facilitators create a welcoming space with inspiration, writing prompts, small groups for feedback, and opportunities to read and listen in community.
- Class runs: In person, for 10 weeks
- Open to: Women & Nonbinary, Ages 18+
About the Facilitator: Diane Debevec has been involved in the WWfaC community for over 25 years, as participant, facilitator, board member, volunteer and executive director. While her creative life includes visual art, music, yoga and gardening, she considers writing to be her foundational life practice. Diane lives with her husband Jeff (and assorted four-leggeds) in a small downtown community they call Artful Habitats.
PRICING POLICY: We use a three tier pricing structure based on your financial circumstance. During registration, please select the tier that feels most true to your current financial ability. Learn more here.
Wednesday Evening Core Class (All Gender)
with Laurie Lambert
Core Class is where you find your writing community! Facilitators create a welcoming space with inspiration, writing prompts, small groups for feedback, and opportunities to read and listen in community.
- Class runs: Virtually, for 8 weeks
- Open to: All Genders, Ages 18+
PRICING POLICY: We use a three tier pricing structure based on your financial circumstance. During registration, please select the tier that feels most true to your current financial ability. Learn more here.
Wednesday Evening Core Class (Women & Nonbinary)
with Diane Debevec
Core Class is where you find your writing community! Facilitators create a welcoming space with inspiration, writing prompts, small groups for feedback, and opportunities to read and listen in community.
- Class runs: Virtually for 13 weeks, skipping Nov. 25
- Open to: Women & Nonbinary, Ages 18+
About the Facilitator: Diane Debevec has been involved in the WWfaC community for over 25 years, as participant, facilitator, board member, volunteer and executive director. While her creative life includes visual art, music, yoga and gardening, she considers writing to be her foundational life practice. Diane lives with her husband Jeff (and assorted four-leggeds) in a small downtown community they call Artful Habitats.
PRICING POLICY: We use a three tier pricing structure based on your financial circumstance. During registration, please select the tier that feels most true to your current financial ability. Learn more here.
Thursday Morning Core Class
with Vicki Phillips
Core Class is where you find your writing community! Facilitators create a welcoming space with inspiration, writing prompts, small groups for feedback, and opportunities to read and listen in community.
- Class runs: In person, for 8 weeks
- Open to: Women & Nonbinary, Ages 18+
PRICING POLICY: We use a three tier pricing structure based on your financial circumstance. During registration, please select the tier that feels most true to your current financial ability. Learn more here.
Thursday Evening Core Class
with Laurie Lambert
Core Class is where you find your writing community! Facilitators create a welcoming space with inspiration, writing prompts, small groups for feedback, and opportunities to read and listen in community.
- Class runs: In person, for 8 weeks
- Open to: All Genders, Ages 18+
About the Facilitator: Laurie started writing in Women Writing for (a) Change circles in 2011, completed the WWfaC leadership training program in 2013, and has been facilitating writing circles for all genders since 2015. She has also held outreach circles for survivors of abuse and incarcerated individuals. Laurie is a poet, scientist, mother of triplets, labyrinth walker, birder and amateur photographer. Her books, What I Can Carry and What We Are Made Of, are available from Finishing Line Press.
PRICING POLICY: We use a three tier pricing structure based on your financial circumstance. During registration, please select the tier that feels most true to your current financial ability. Learn more here.
We're Not Broken: We're Grieving
with Pam Temple
Facilitated by Lisa Prantl and Pam Temple
We live in chaotic times, and it can be ungrounding. It may feel like the world is yelling about politics, climate, technology, war, science, religion, body autonomy, and more. If life feels overwhelming, the resulting despair, hopelessness, and discomfort might be grief. You are not broken. You are learning how to live with what you are missing. In the midst of loss there is grief. You are not alone. Endless turmoil and chaos feel like loss, loss invites grief, grief yearns for expression. Writing through loss in community is a way to honor your feelings, feel connected to others struggling in similar ways, and even find humor and hope.
In this class, we’ll use writing prompts, poems, and readings to inspire and invite exploration of what feels lost and what you’re grieving. In supportive community, you’re invited to explore your grief—where it comes from and how you might hold and make meaning of its contradictions.
- Class runs: Biweekly on Thursday Sep 24, Oct 8 & 22, and Nov 5
- Open to: All Genders, Ages 18+
About the Facilitators:
Lisa Prantl is a longtime Women Writing writer, gardener, and death midwife. Her poetry has appeared in a number of anthologies, including grief becomes you — a compilation of narratives and photographs surrounding loss, edited by Maya Stein. Lisa believes writing, especially in community, is a way to make sense of an astonishing and hurting world.
Pam Temple is a highly accomplished Cincinnati-based singer, songwriter, and on-air host for public radio. Trained in Arts in Healing, she uses music, creative writing, and collage-making to foster healing, wellness, and personal transformation with diverse populations, including Veterans with PTSD, domestic abuse survivors, and at-risk high-school girls.
PRICING POLICY: We use a three-tier pricing structure based on your financial circumstance. During registration, please select the tier that feels most true to your current financial ability. Learn more here.