Tomorrow is the third day of events for HerStories! Andrea King Collier gives a reading at 1:00pm from her award-winning memoir Still with Me: A Daughter’s Journey of Love and Loss (Michigan Notable Book 2004, American Society of Journalists and Authors honorable mention 2004) followed by workshops with emeritus MSU professor Marilyn Mayer Culpepper at […]
Virginia Law Burns join HerStories! Her workshop “Making Your Creative Nonfiction Sizzle” is scheduled March 20 at 3:45pm. Virginia owns Enterprise Press and is the author of several creative nonfiction works with a historical focus including Bold Women in Michigan History and Gentle Hunter: A Biography of Alice C. Evans, Bacteriologist. Learn more about Virginia […]
Mary Catherine Harper joins HerStories! Her workshop “There’s Sense in Our Poetry: Using the Senses to Enter Poetic Spiritual Space” is scheduled March 13 at 2:30pm. Professor Harper teaches at Defiance College in Ohio. Her poetry has been published in The New England Review, WomenWriters.net, The Bozeman Er, and Masque. She also has published articles […]
Updated March 3, 2010. Thanks to HerStories volunteer Ashley Guerrant, the workshop registration form is now available! PART 1: ABOUT WORKSHOPS Thanks for your interest in the free writing workshops offered by The HerStories Project during March 2010. Workshops will be held at Everybody Reads bookstore, 2019 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing, MI 48912. Please complete […]
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 […]
Updated February 17, 2010 Dawn Comer joins HerStories! Her workshop “On Becoming a Fish: Birthing Characters and Finding Voice Through Fiction” is scheduled March 13 at 2:30pm. Dawn received her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Notre Dame. She currently teaches part-time at Defiance College and is writing two books: Raised in a […]
Updated February 17, 2010 Marilyn Mayer Culpepper joins HerStories! Her workshop “Writing about Women” is scheduled March 20 at 2:30pm. She is emeritus faculty from Michigan State University and the author of several books documenting women in U.S. history, including the most recently published Never Will We Forget: Oral Histories about World War II (2008). […]
Updated February 17, 2010 Holly Makimaa from Oasis Health & Wellness/ Yoga Center of East Lansing joins the HerStories program! Her workshop “Journaling through Change” is scheduled March 6 from 2:30-3:30pm. Holly has been teaching holistic journaling workshops for almost 10 years and has worked with clients nationally in telling their life stories. She is […]
Greater Lansing Woman joins The HerStories Project! GL Woman plans to publish a participant from the HerStories writing workshops. Stay tuned for details about these workshops scheduled on March 6, 13, and 20 at 2:30pm at Everybody Reads.