When I was five, I slipped a poem under my father’s office door. It concerned dolls, apes and Scotch tape (it was a rhyming poem,) and my writing career was launched! Since then, I’ve written for newspapers and magazines (like the New York Times Magazine.) My award-winning memoir, Broken: A Love Story, chronicled the story of my friendship with Northern Arapahoe horse trainer and traditional healer Stanford Addison.
My students tell me my writing class is better than therapy. Women who haven’t lifted a pen in decades but are simply trying to make sense of a tricky passage in their lives rub shoulders with award-winning authors. Everyone has a blast because instead of lecturing them or leaving them alone with an empty page, I chunk down great scenes from literature to guide their writing. And even though my students have different levels of experience, we’ve all been human long enough to know just what a glorious mess this life is. That glorious mess is the source of all good writing. It’s just a matter of jumping in. Join us!
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Broken: A Love Story
By Lisa Jones
Writer Lisa Jones went to Wyoming for a four-day magazine assignment and came home four years later with a new life. Read this memoir that explores powerful spirits, material poverty, spiritual wealth, friendship, violence, confusion, death, and above all else, “a love that comes before and after and above and below romantic love.”
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My classes are inclusive, low-key, pay-what-you-like, and fun. All levels of writers are welcome; classes are held on Zoom: Come on in!
Instead of lecturing you on craft or leaving you to write all alone, I’ll use a great piece of writing to guide and support you every step of the way, providing a set of suggested frames through which you can throw your narrative. Use them, or ignore them completely: you’re the boss.
At the end of class, anyone who wants to share does so, and we’re all reliably blown away, not to mention thoroughly moved and entertained. It’s a wonderful way to spend an evening. It truly is pay-what-you-like. If you’re broke, you don’t have to part with a single dime. If you’re feeling flush and abundant, go right ahead!
