Join author and writing teacher Joni B. Cole as she leads participants in this expressive writing workshop that helps you tap into their own creativity and meaningful material. In this lively, interactive workshop you’ll write from a “prompt” and then share aloud in the group. Expect to be surprised and inspired by what flows from your mind to the page! This workshop offers participants insights into how to engender a more productive, positive creative process, and it reinforces the role all our stories play in evoking change, empathy, and engagement. Bring along a notepad or laptop, and leave all self doubts at the door. 

BIO: 

Joni B. Cole is the author of the new release Good Naked: Reflections on How to Write More, Write Better, and Be Happier, recently included in Poets & Writers list of “Best Books for Writers.” Joni is also the author of the acclaimed book Toxic Feedback: Helping Writers Survive and Thrive (“I can’t imagine a better guide to [writing’s] rewards and perils than this fine book,” American Book Review), and Another Bad-Dog Book: Essays on Life, Love, and Neurotic Human Behavior (“Funny, smart, original, and, just to keep us on our toes, occasionally heartbreaking”—Gina Barreca, author and syndicated columnist). Joni teaches in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College, serves on the creative writing faculty of the New Hampshire Institute of Art, and is founder of the Writer’s Center of White River Junction, Vermont. She is also a frequent contributor to The Writer magazine, and leads expressive writing workshops for a diversity of social service programs. Joni has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and USA Fellowship Award. For more information: www.jonibcole.com