solar year

An orbit for your book/creative project and culminates in a celebratory online reading/performance.

Using the framework of the SOLAR YEAR, our creative orbit starts with water energy near the upcoming winter solstice. We’ll meet every four or five weeks (13 sessions total) to support the collective progress (and, if desired, completion) of your book-length project (other long-term creative projects also welcome!). All media & genres welcome. The facilitator is a poet and experimental video-maker, so we will primarily be referring to poetry texts, but our most recent cohort included poets, essayists, fiction-writers, journalists, scholars, and memoirists. We’ll focus on generative rituals and habits, broad consideration of craft & structure, and, most importantly, supportive community and gentle accountability. This space is designed to nurture your projects, collectively and individually. It’s not a workshop*. It’s a generative communal force, led by a trained educator, healing arts practitioner, published writer, and Somatic coach. 

*You’ll be encouraged to periodically share excerpts of your work, and to discuss, in some depth, your process. But you will not be critiquing each other’s full projects. If group members would like to swap on the side, that is, of course, welcome, but not an expectation. If you’d like 1-1 manuscript consultations, there will be sliding-scale options along the way.