Register for a Class or Event
Are you new to Women Writing for (a) Change? We recommend you start with a Core Class, but you are welcome to sign up for any class, event, or retreat you like. Classes are grouped by gender and age groups. Your gender is defined by you. Everyone is welcome.
Winter Samplers are Here!
Every season starts with a round of free classes! Samplers are one free class so you can check out the facilitator, feeling, and format of a class before registering for the full class. Space is limited, so if you register, please attend!
Core Classes
Core Classes are your writing cohort. Start here if you’re new. Core Classes are where you find, continue, and maintain your writing practice. Core classes strengthen and grow you as a writer by keeping your writing!
The featured focus is writing in community over a period of several weeks. While some writing technique is taught in each class, emphasis is placed on writers pursuing their own forms of written expression (e.g., poetry, memoir, fiction, non-fiction or journaling). Writers are in charge of their writing.
1/7 – 3/11/25 Tuesday AM Core Class (10 wk)
- Date: January 7 - March 11, 2025
- Time: 10:00AM - 12:30PM
- Tuition: $349.00
- Open to: Women, Non-Binary
- Facilitator: Sally Schneider
- Location: Virtual
1/8 - 3/12/25 Wednesday PM Core Class (10 wk)
- Date: January 8 - March 12, 2025
- Time: 7:00PM - 9:30PM
- Tuition: $349.00
- Open to: All Gender
- Facilitator: Laurie Lambert
- Location: Virtual
1/16 - 3/6/25 Thursday AM Core Class (8 wk)
- Date: January 16 - March 6, 2025
- Time: 10:00AM - 12:30PM
- Tuition: $279.00
- Open to: Women, Non-binary
- Facilitator: Vicki Phillips
- Location: Women Writing for (a) Change
1/9 – 3/13/25 Thursday PM Core Class (10 wk)
- Date: January 9 – March 13, 2025
- Time: 6:30PM – 9:00PM
- Tuition: $349.00
- Open to: All Gender
- Facilitator: Laurie Lambert
- Location: Virtual
1/12 – 3/23/25 Sunday Afternoons (Bi-weekly) (6 wk)
- Date: January 12 – March 23, 2025
- Time: 2:00PM – 4:30 PM
- Tuition: $209.00
- Open to: All Gender
- Facilitator: Janie Baer
- Location: Virtual
1/7 – 3/11/25 Tuesday Afternoon Core Class (10 wk)
- Date: January 7 – March 11, 2025
- Time: 1:00PM – 3:30PM
- Tuition: $349.00
- Open to: Women, Non-binary
- Facilitator: Diane Debevec
- Location: Women Writing for (a) Change Building
1/22 - 4/16/24 Wednesday PM Core Class (13 wk)
- Date: January 22 – April 16, 2025
- Time: 7:00PM – 9:30PM
- Tuition: $449.00
- Open to: Women, Non-binary
- Facilitator: Diane Debevec
- Location: Virtual
Affinity Circles
Affinity Circles are inclusive brave spaces for people with shared identities to gather, write, explore commonalities, and relate. Topics will be thematic.
12/7/24 Heart & Hearth: Crafting Our Stories of Queer Belonging
- Date: Saturday, December 7, 2024
- Time: 1:00-4:00
- Tuition: $49.00
- Open to: All-Gender 18+, LGBTQIA-identifying people
- Facilitators: Rowe Schnure (they/them) & Hannah Simon Goldman (she/her)
- Location: Women Writing for (a) Change
Join a community of queer writers for an afternoon of guided prompts and open sharing to explore our stories, nurture our spirits, and fill our cups together before the winter season. Whether reflecting on personal experiences or celebrating chosen family, this space invites you to express your unique voice and stories. No writing experience is necessary!
(We’re using queer as an inclusive term for all those in the LGBTQIA+ community, aka: if you think you might belong here, you do!)
1/14 - 2/25/25 Let’s Be Perfectly Queer: Virtual
- Date: January 14 – February 25, 2025
- Time: 7:00PM – 9:30PM
- Tuition: $239.00
- Open to: All Gender 18+
- Facilitator: Janie Baer, Rowe Schnure
- Location: Virtual
In this seven-week Virtual class, you will explore your writing within the broader context of Queer literature. Reading queer literary icons of our past, as well as engaging with contemporary writers who continue to question the stories and modes of expression that are often marginalized. Come, let‘s be perfectly queer!
(We’re using queer as an inclusive term for all those in the LGBTQIA+ community, aka: if you think you might belong here, you do!)
Specialty Classes
Specialty Class are a wide range of classes that on unique topics to keep you inspired as a creative and writer.
11/9/24 SoulCollage® Saturday: The Time is Now
- Date: November 9, 2024
- Time: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
- Tuition: $55.00
- Open to: All Genders 16+
- Facilitator: Pam Temple
- Location: Women Writing for (a) Change
The time is now to check in with yourself and your life dreams. Have the last few years given you a heightened resolve or an urgency? The past? The future? They meet right now, at this moment. The time is now.
12/8 - 1/12/24 Thresholds: Moving into the New Year: 4-Week
- Date: Dec 8, Dec 15, 2024 | Jan 5, Jan 12, 2025
- Time: 1:00 – 3:30 pm
- Tuition: $139.00
- Open to: All Gender 18+
- Facilitator: Karen Novak, Pam Temple
- Location: Virtual
We are on the brink of a new year, a time for looking forward. Join us as we invite exploring change with writing and discussion. The focus is on self-compassion, joy, and hope.
2 weeks in December, 2 weeks off, 2 weeks in Jan
1/11/25 SoulCollage® Passages & Portals
- Date: January 11, 2025
- Time: 10:00AM – 1:00PM
- Tuition: $59.00
- Open to: All Gender 18+
- Facilitator: Pam Temple
- Location: Women Writing for (a) Change
We’ve just opened the door to a new year. What does 2025 hold in store for you? With SoulCollage®, we’ll harness our creative expression and intuitive wisdom to unveil and guide our next adventures and discoveries. During this SoulCollage® Saturday we’ll explore portals and passages and what is opening up for us. You might have something in mind that you want to manifest or step forward into in the coming year, or a quality to hold as a theme — or perhaps you’d like to let intuition guide you to your next steps.
1/25/25 Vision Collage
- Date: January 25, 2025
- Time: 10:00AM – 1:00PM
- Tuition: $45.00
- Open to: All Gender 18+
- Facilitator: Carol Walkner
- Location: Women Writing for (a) Change
Set your vision for an amazing 2025. You can have it all – you just need to be clear about the “it”. Vision boards are magical – you can create and craft the life you want!
3/8/25: SoulCollage® Growing Joy from Sorrow
- Date: March 8, 2025
- Time: 10:00 – 2:00 pm
- Tuition: $59.00
- Open to: All Gender 18+
- Facilitator: Pam Temple
- Location: Women Writing for (a) Change
Life is paradoxical, embracing joy and sadness, light and darkness, birthing and dying. Can we feel joy even in tough times, times of adversity, uncertainty, change, or emotional pain? Your SoulCollage® cards can be your personal compass, hold your hand, and provide a safety net. They can be your allies, guide you through turbulence, and embolden you to go deeper into yourself. Most of all, they can help you accept every part of yourself with compassion. As we emerge from the darkest season, let’s grow some joy!
Craft Classes
Craft Classes are for growing as a writer in your chosen writing style, whether poetry, novel, short story, journaling, or more. These classes will grow you in specific forms and elements.
1/7 - 1/28/25 Craft of Songwriting: 4-Week
- Date: January 7 - January 28, 2025
- Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM
- Tuition: $149.00
- Open to: All Gender 18+
- Facilitator: Pam Temple
- Location: Women Writing for (a) Change
Join award-winning singer-songwriter, Pam Temple, to explore different approaches to song form and structure. Think of your favorite songs in new ways, and choose the method of song writing that best suits your needs. Learn ideas to help you avoid the empty page syndrome. Resources provided to take with you. You’ll be supported and encouraged in large group circle, and in small groups, using Women Writing for (a) Change practices.
1/11/25 Social Justice Through Speculative Fiction
- Date: January 11, 2025
- Time: 10:00AM - 12:30PM
- Tuition: $45.00
- Open to: All Gender 18+
- Facilitator: Jasmine Griffin
- Location: Women Writing for (a) Change
Explore the relationship between social justice and speculative genres. Using the examples of authors such as Margaret Atwood, P. Djèlí Clark, Octavia Butler, Stephen Graham Jones, and others, participants will learn how to explore social issues through the lens of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror. You’ll receive prompts and exercises that will allow you to combine the escapism of the speculative with the social justice issues that matter most to you.
1/21 - 2/25/25 Craft of Poetry
- Date: January 21 - February 25, 2025
- Time: 6:00PM – 8:00PM
- Tuition: $209.00
- Open to: All Gender 18+
- Facilitator: Elena Estella Green
- Location: Virtual
Explore the different elements of poetry. Discuss poets and poems who do those elements well and grow in your own ability to craft a poem.
1/27 - 3/3/25 Short Story Writing
- Date: January 27 - March 3, 2025
- Time: 7:00PM – 9:00PM
- Tuition: $209.00
- Open to: All Gender 18+
- Facilitator: Vicki Phillips
- Location: Virtual
Humans are naturally story-tellers. A written story that will engage and move a reader has distinctive challenges. This class introduces key craft elements (characterization, setting, story arc, plot, dialogue and scene) that a writer can use to revise their first tellings into compelling stories.
2/8/25 The Craft of Writing Witchcraft
- Date: February 8, 2025
- Time: 10:00AM - 12:30PM
- Tuition: $45.00
- Open to: All Gender 18+
- Facilitator: Jasmine Griffin
- Location: Women Writing for (a) Change
What is a witch? What constraints have been placed upon a witch? Are they the same as they once were? Examine traditional and modern ways that witches and witchcraft are depicted in fiction. Reimagine traditional tropes and modern developments for these narratives in your own writing. We will also pull prompts from some interesting Oracle and Tarot decks.
Growth Circles
Growth Circles explore topics and cultivate wellness with writing utilized toward growth, and discovery.
2/11-3/4/25 Grief & Joy: Finding the Intersection 4-Week
- Date: February 11 - March 4, 2025
- Time: 6:30PM - 9:00PM
- Tuition: $149.00
- Open to: All Gender 18+
- Facilitator: Pam Temple, Lisa Prantl
- Location: Women Writing for (a) Change
Grief and Joy coexist. Sometimes even within the same experience. Allowing ourselves to feel both is part of how we heal. This class provides an opportunity to consider and honor the duality of each emotion and consider the places within us where they meet.
Partnership Classes
Collaborative Classes partner with elements, experiences, and museums to enrich experiences through writing.
11/30/24 Discovering Ansel Adams: Cincinnati Art Museum
- Date: November 30, 2024
- Time: 1:00pm to 3:30pm
- Tuition: $35.00 (includes exhibit admission)
- Open to: All Genders 16+
- Facilitator: Lisa Rocklin
- Location: Cincinnati Art Museum
Discovering Ansel Adams provides an unprecedented exploration of the early career of Ansel Adams (1902–1984), demonstrating how, between 1916 and the 1940s, Adams developed from a 14-year-old tourist with a camera into America’s most celebrated photographer.
1/27 - 2/17/25 Cultivating a Sustainable Life
- Date: January 27 – February 17, 2025
- Time: 6:30PM - 8:30PM
- Tuition: $149.00
- Open to: All Genders 18+
- Facilitator: Felix Marisa Head
- Location: Virtual
Felix Marisa Head is a certified permaculture designer and board member at Cincinnati Permaculture Institute, as well as a Conscious Feminine Leadership Academy graduate, and brings her passion for the planet and poetry together in this unique offering. Learn how to apply the 12 principles of permaculture design not just to your garden, but to your life, your writing, anything you create.
Youth Camps and Classes
Summer Camps will launch in February for June & July of 2025. Check back then to save your spot for an experience your 4th-12th graders will never forget.