This course focuses on the theme of “repair” as subject matter and metaphor. Over the course of five weeks, we will read and write work that grapples with questions of fixing, healing, mending, rebuilding, restoration, and reconciliation. Some of the best memoirs ask questions that do not have clear answers. We will consider what has… Read More Online Writing Class: Micro-Memoirists Repair, March-April 2021
Despite everything, I was able to continue my writing and publishing practice. I clocked 108 rejections this year. … Read More What I Published in 2020
During this time of social distancing, the idea of the door as a way of maintaining safety is especially relevant.… Read More Book Review of Through This Door: Wisconsin in Poems
I’m happy to announce that I’m carrying out the year with a culinary micro-memoir class. Our memories associated with food, eating, cooking, meals, and kitchens will serve as a portal into writing stories about our lives. You do not need any special experience with food, cooking, or food writing to take this class, just a… Read More Online Writing Class: Culinary Micro-Memoir, November-December 2020
I hope everyone reading this is faring as well as can be expected during this extraordinary time. What I keep returning to in my mind is a desire to focus on gratitude that we have writing and reading as tools. I want to share a few of my recent publications related to the pandemic with… Read More What I’ve Written During the Pandemic
COVID-19 is a global pandemic, but every person has a unique story to share about summoning up resilience. Some writers who are keeping journals, diaries, or field notes during the pandemic haven’t yet figured out how to transform these writings into publishable works for an audience. For a multitude of different reasons, other writers are… Read More September-October 2020 Online Writing Classes: Writing Your Pandemic Story and Micro-Memoir 2.0
COVID-19 is a global pandemic, but every person has a unique story to share about summoning up resilience. Some writers who are keeping journals, diaries, or field notes during the pandemic haven’t yet figured out how to transform these writings into publishable works for an audience. For a multitude of different reasons, other writers are… Read More July-August 2020 Online Writing Classes: Writing Your Pandemic Story and Micro-Memoir 2.0
Note: This class has completely filled up! Thank you for your interest, and stay tuned for future class offerings later this summer. COVID-19 is a global pandemic, but every person has a unique story to share about weathering this collective trauma and summoning up resilience. Some writers who are keeping journals, diaries, or field… Read More Writing Your Pandemic Story Through Micro-Memoir: Online Writing Class, May-June 2020
Happy (almost) New Year! I hope that whoever is reading this has been able to find some rest and relaxation this holiday season. It’s been quite a year in terms of politics, politically-charged vigilante violence, a continued refusal (by some) to turn around this thing called global warming, crises large and small around the world,… Read More What I Published This Year: A 2019 Scrapbook
Writer, storyteller, and educator Kate O’Brien Wooddell recently published her first collection, Beasts, through Florida’s Happy Tapir Press. Beasts is a compendium of poems, flash memoir, and even a couple of pieces that verge into surrealism and magic. Beasts covers familial, often politicized themes like motherhood and daughterhood, sexual abuse, travel, memory, and reconciliation, all… Read More “My True Story”: An Interview with Kate O’Brien Wooddell
