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Thursday Evening Core Class

with Laurie Lambert

Next session: September 24th to November 12th, 2026

$299 More Info

Core Class is where you find your writing community! Facilitators create a welcoming space with inspiration, writing prompts, small groups for feedback, and opportunities to read and listen in community.

Class runs: In person, for 8 weeks
Open to: All Genders, Ages 18+

About the Facilitator: Laurie started writing in Women Writing for (a) Change circles in 2011, completed the WWfaC leadership training program in 2013, and has been facilitating writing circles for all genders since 2015. She has also held outreach circles for survivors of abuse and incarcerated individuals. Laurie is a poet, scientist, mother of triplets, labyrinth walker, birder and amateur photographer. Her books, What I Can Carry and What We Are Made Of, are available from Finishing Line Press.

PRICING POLICY: We use a three tier pricing structure based on your financial circumstance. During registration, please select the tier that feels most true to your current financial ability. Learn more here.

Thursday Morning Core Class

with Vicki Phillips

Next session: September 17th to November 5th, 2026

$299 More Info

Class runs: In person, for 8 weeks
Open to: Women & Nonbinary, Ages 18+

Interest Session on Writing a Novel – In Person

with Vicki Phillips

Next session: November 14th, 2026

Free More Info

Writing a novel has challenges, contours and craft issues specific to that form. Women Writing for (a) Change would like to support novel writers by offering a class designed with your needs in mind.

With that as our goal, we are holding two one-hour "interest sessions" - one in person and one virtual - to assess interest and to learn from novel writers what issues, topics, and types of support a course in novel writing can offer you.

Wherever you are on your novel-writing journey, please join us for one of these interest sessions.

This session runs: In person
Open to: All Genders, Ages 18+

About the Facilitator: Vicki Phillips holds an MFA in Fiction from West Virginia Wesleyan College. She has been a regular participant in National Novel Writing Month. Vicki has drafted three novels and is currently nearing the final draft of a murder mystery.

Elements of Story: Scene

with Vicki Phillips

Next session: October 11th, 2026

$30 More Info

A person, in a place, taking an action: this is the core structure of a scene.

The purpose of scenes is to bring your reader into the story, close up, as it happens, with the reader feeling what the characters in the scene are feeling.

Scenes are a building block in your narrative. This workshop will discuss why scenes are essential to one’s story and then review the elements of constructing scenes: how to set a scene, create drama, and close the scene.

Class runs: Sunday, October 11, 3-5 PM
Open to: All Genders, Ages 18+

Elements of Story is a series of three new classes focusing on key elements of story telling: Scene, Characterization, and Energy. Take one, two, or all three! Each class can stand alone and all are suitable for writers of fiction, memoir, or creative non-fiction.

PRICING POLICY: We use a three-tier pricing structure based on your financial circumstance. During registration, please select the tier that feels most true to your current financial ability. Learn more here.

SoulCollage®: Whispers and Roars

with Jane Pugliano

Next session: September 19th, 2026

$64 More Info

Explore the theme of Whispers and Roars through images you’ve chosen yourself or through a thoughtfully curated packet of images that will surely challenge you to think in a new way.

We’ll use the Women Writing for (a) Change practices of gathering in circle, writing, and thoughtful but optional sharing throughout our time together. And we'll be guided by the creative intuitive SoulCollage® process in which personal collaged cards are created with simple materials to aid in a journey of self-discovery. Uncover a new way to connect to the part of you who is learning to be more grateful for what you’ve been given.

Open to: All Genders

Exploring Publication

with Vicki Phillips

Next session: September 12th to October 10th, 2026

$90 More Info

Explore and name why we writers resist and fear sending work out for potential publication. Explore why we want to, and what we can learn together so that more writing by women makes it to publication. Continue the journey with some tips on knowing when a piece is ready to meet the wider world, how to find appropriate possible homes for it; draft a bio and cover letter, as well as the process of sending work out. Let’s increase Women and Nonbinary voices in the world!

Class runs: In person, biweekly on Sunday (Sep 12 & 26, Oct 10)
Open to: Women & Nonbinary, Ages 18+

We’re Not Broken: We’re Grieving

with Pam Temple

Next session: September 24th to November 5th, 2026

$150 More Info

Facilitated by Lisa Prantl and Pam Temple

We live in chaotic times, and it can be ungrounding. It may feel like the world is yelling about politics, climate, technology, war, science, religion, body autonomy, and more. If life feels overwhelming, the resulting despair, hopelessness, and discomfort might be grief. You are not broken. You are learning how to live with what you are missing. In the midst of loss there is grief. You are not alone. Endless turmoil and chaos feel like loss, loss invites grief, grief yearns for expression. Writing through loss in community is a way to honor your feelings, feel connected to others struggling in similar ways, and even find humor and hope.

In this class, we’ll use writing prompts, poems, and readings to inspire and invite exploration of what feels lost and what you’re grieving. In supportive community, you’re invited to explore your grief—where it comes from and how you might hold and make meaning of its contradictions.

Class runs: Biweekly on Thursday Sep 24, Oct 8 & 22, and Nov 5
Open to: All Genders, Ages 18+

About the Facilitators:

Lisa Prantl is a longtime Women Writing writer, gardener, and death midwife. Her poetry has appeared in a number of anthologies, including grief becomes you — a compilation of narratives and photographs surrounding loss, edited by Maya Stein. Lisa believes writing, especially in community, is a way to make sense of an astonishing and hurting world.

Pam Temple is a highly accomplished Cincinnati-based singer, songwriter, and on-air host for public radio. Trained in Arts in Healing, she uses music, creative writing, and collage-making to foster healing, wellness, and personal transformation with diverse populations, including Veterans with PTSD, domestic abuse survivors, and at-risk high-school girls.

Writing from the Body: Finding the Wisdom Beneath the Story

with Amy Stenger-Sullivan

Next session: November 7th, 2026

$45 More Info

Mind-body awareness is a key component of self care, and has never been more important than in these stressful times. In this 3 hour class we will first very briefly cover the basics of how the nervous system affects mental health, and then move into prompted reflective writing and optional sharing, using our traditional Women Writing practices and mind-body practices to explore when and how different states of our nervous system are "talking" to us through our writing.

Open to: All Genders, 18+

About the Facilitator: Amy Stenger-Sullivan is devoted to helping people understand and befriend their nervous systems — through therapy, training, and writing circles. She believes writing and words are a powerful pathway to emotional safety and connection.

Thursday Summer Flex Core Class – Biweekly Drop In

with Laurie Lambert

Next session: August 20th, 2026

$34 More Info

During the summer, this core class is meeting in person every other week for two hours on a drop-in basis, so you can select the class dates that fit your schedule.

Open to: All Genders, Ages 18+

Ordinary Wonders: A Writing Workshop

with Leighann Rechtin

Next session: November 14th, 2026

$45 More Info

Inspired by Wendy Cope's beloved poem The Orange, this Saturday afternoon workshop explores the extraordinary hidden within the everyday.

What small moments bring delight? What familiar objects deserve a second look? What ordinary experiences have quietly shaped your life?

Through poetry, reflection, and generative writing, we'll practice paying attention to the simple gifts that often go unnoticed. Together we'll discover how wonder is not something we find but something we cultivate.

Come prepared to slow down, notice deeply, and celebrate the beauty of ordinary things.

Open to: All Genders, Ages 18+

About the Facilitator: Leighann believes writing is one of the most powerful ways we come home to ourselves. As an educator, facilitator, and lifelong learner, she creates welcoming spaces where curiosity, reflection, and connection can flourish. Whether writing poetry, personal stories, or simply noticing the world with fresh eyes, she hopes participants leave feeling more grounded, inspired, and connected to their own voice.