Free and Pop-Up Writing Workshops
If you’ve ever wanted to write but felt intimidated, short on time, or struggled to start, participate in one of my FREE writing pop-ups and step out of your comfort zone. The workshops will preview our writing circles in a low-stakes setting.
I’ll guide the group through a writing practice designed to help you tap into your authentic writing voice. All you need to bring is a pen, notebook, and an open mind. The 60-minute workshop is completely FREE, but you must register in advance. After you register, you will receive an email with the Zoom link.
Register now if you’d like to join us!
This pop-up will be your last chance to experience a taste of my writing circles before Winter Circles starts the week of January 14. Attendees will get priority access to the upcoming circles.
Select which Zoom writing workshop you’d like to attend below:
Taste of Free-Range Writing: A Free Community Writing Session for Fostering Resilience in the New Year. No prior writing or cooking experience is required.
When: Jan 11, 2025 10-11 AM Pacific Time (1-2 PM Eastern)
Advanced registration is required.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwscu6urTwvE9DFD9p9PLotNNIAI2_puH4T
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Upcoming workshops:
The Madeleine Moment: Unlocking Memory, Meaning, and Emotions through Food Poetry
(date TBA-message me if interested)
Just one taste of the sweet, buttery French cake mingled with lime blossom tea was all it took for Proust’s childhood memories to come flooding back to him. Unlock your own madeleine moment in this two-hour guided generative class where the sensory cues of food poetry (smell, taste, and sound) are used as writing prompts to trigger remembrances of your sweet and bitter past.
Date TBA, 5:30 -7:30 PM Pacific Time (8:30-10:30 pm Eastern), Cost: $39
To register for this workshop, email meeshahalm@gmail.com and Venmo payment to @meesha-halm
Here’s how it works
In this two-hour interactive session, we will explore the involuntary phenomenon of taste/memory and learn how to retrieve it using the therapeutic power of automatic writing. I will read a poem to the group to inspire us and suggest a couple of lines from the poem to use as writing prompts. You take it from there.
We spend 10-15 minutes writing to each prompt, with the pen never leaving the page. The idea is to get a lot of words down without pausing to consider whether the words are “good enough.” We try to say yes to whatever comes up and get comfortable writing as our complicated, messy, real selves. This is how we find our authentic voice.
We’ll cover three writing prompts in this 2-hour meetup. You’ll leave with a handful of juicy writing and, quite possibly, some excavated inner truths.
If you’re interested, you will have an opportunity to read a piece you wrote at the end.
Please DM or email me if you have any questions.