WRITERS! How do you build and sustain a connected writing group? What principles and practices are essential to co-create a group you can count on? Who will truly BE there as you cultivate your writing life, and why?
Craft your favorite cocktail or mocktail, and join BWBH for this special online pro Storytelling event! Engage through Zoom with a devoted 20-year-strong writing group whose members met as scholars at a celebrated writing conference. Hear how each writer's work and life evolved, and why the group members' dedication to one another has deepened. Learn from these 5 published authors and teachers:
* Ways to stay motivated
* Ideas for balancing writing and life
* How to avoid toxic group dynamics like envy
* What to say if critiquing manuscripts feels hard
* Where to find ease when your project gets complicated
Bring your questions to these seasoned writing professionals - and get ready to laugh and have a literary BLAST! Register to receive your personal Zoom link.
FREE and for ALL! Online through Zoom on Sunday, May 28 at 5 - 6pm
Featured Writing Group: The Delta Schmeltas
Allison Amend Allison lives in New York City, where she teaches creative writing at Lehman College in the Bronx and at the Red Earth MFA. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday published her most recent novels A Nearly Perfect Copy and Enchanted Islands, and her fiction and non-fiction have been published widely, including in the New York Times and Oprah.com. Allison has traveled the globe as a featured presenter and the recipient of over 15 international writing fellowships. She is a graduate of Stanford and the Iowa Writers Workshop MFA program.
Dika Lam Dika lives in Chicago and is a manuscript consultant for StoryStudio Chicago, having worked as an editor for Frommer’s for many years. Her fiction, nonfiction and book reviews have appeared in Random House's This Is Not Chick Lit, Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops, American Fiction, One Story, The Rumpus, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. Dika won the Bronx Writers Center Chapter One Fiction Competition and first prize in the American Fiction Contest. A resident at VCCA and Ragdale, she was a New York Times Fellow in the MFA program at New York University.
Margo Rabb lives in the Philadelphia area and is the author of the novels Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize, Kissing in America, and Cures for Heartbreak. Her essays, journalism, book reviews, and short stories have been featured in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, Slate, Salon, Best New American Voices, and on NPR, among many others. She has received numerous fellowships and scholarships as well as fiction prizes from Zoetrope, the Atlantic, American Fiction and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award.
Sheri Joseph lives in Atlanta, where she teaches in the creative writing program at Georgia State University and serves as fiction editor of Five Points literary magazine. She is the author of two books: a novel, Stray, which was awarded the Grub Street National Book Prize, and a cycle of stories, Bear Me Safely Over. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals including The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Prairie Schooner. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Sewanee Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf, The Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo, and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award.
Lara Wilson lives outside of Boston. As the founder of Be Well Be Here and the curator of the Concord Festival of Authors, she devotes her life to exploring the intersection of personal narrative and mindful wellbeing. Her short stories have been published in The Kenyon Review, StoryQuarterly, American Fiction, Confrontation and Indiana Review, among others, and an essay about her cancer journey was featured on WBUR's Cognoscenti. Lara was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Fiction, and scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. She served on the board at GrubStreet, where she taught master fiction workshops for over a decade. A lifelong meditator, Lara established 501c3 non-profit Be Well Be Here, a mindful wellness collaborative whose mission is to share creative wellBEing practices and transformative storytelling programs to build compassionate communities.
