The HerStories Project

Updated February 17, 2010.

The National Women’s History Project turns 30 this year and has given 2010’s Women’s History Month the theme Writing Women Back into History. The theme perfectly matches the writing workshops offered by The HerStories Project.

Workshops are open to adults and high-school aged youth. All sessions support the development of stories about women – historical, contemporary, autobiographical, and fictional. Participants are invited to submit an entry for possible publication by the magazine Greater Lansing Woman, which will publish one submission from all entries.

Registration (see form here) for workshops may be completed by email herstories.project @ gmail.com or at the Everybody Reads bookstore, 2019 E. Michigan Ave. in Lansing, during business hours: 11am to 7pm Monday through Saturday, and 9am to 4pm on Sunday.

There are five workshops offered by HerStories in March. Updates are ongoing about sessions, so just follow the links as they’re available:

• “Journaling through Change” by Holly Makimaa (Oasis Wellness) on March 6 at 2:30pm.
• “There’s Sense in Our Poetry: Using the Senses to Enter Poetic Spiritual Space” by Mary Catherine Harper (Defiance College) on March 13 at 2:30pm.
• “On Becoming a Fish: Birthing Characters and Finding Voice Through Fiction” by Dawn Comer (Defiance College) on March 13 at 3:45pm
• “Writing about Women” by Marilyn Mayer Culpepper (Never Will We Forget: Oral Histories of World War II) on March 20 at 2:30pm.
• “Making Your Creative Nonfiction Sizzle” by Virginia Law Burns (Bold Women in Michigan History) on March 20 at 3:45pm.