“Worst Ex Stories” Will Be Published in Women At Woodstock’s First Anthology This Spring If you’ve been watching our posts here at Women At Woodstock, you know that one of our workshops this year will be the entertaining and also healing workshop, “Worst Ex Stories,” in which women will read their stories of relationship mishaps,
Category: Creatives & Creativity
“Change of Lanes” – A Reading of My Short Story at the Book Launch in Mendocino
I was honored to be asked to read my flash fiction short story, “Change of Lanes” at the launch party earlier this month in Mendocino for this year’s edition of the Noyo River Review, the journal in which it was being published. So, I decided to make a weekend out of it: I took the
Finding Your Muse for Life and Writing
A Guest Post by Angela Kaufman Do you pay attention when your Muse calls to you? Do you heed the voice, the nudging, or the burst of energy that brings you from the seed of a thought, not fully formed, to a completed work? Perhaps you have had many seeds planted and are still cultivating
My First Published Fiction – Out Next May
I worked up the courage to read a short piece of my fiction at the 2-minute open mic at the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference last month. I stood up in front of 150 people, all strangers, and read something I wrote that I hoped would paint a real scene in the minds of the listeners and
WAW 2018 Creative Circle – Loesje Shema; Fortune Cookie Baby Booties
One of our Creative Circles this fall will teach you something that’s not only creative, it’s easy – and it’s not only easy, it can do good for others! Loesje Shema, an alum from last year, volunteered right away when we announced we were adding a Creative Circles morning to Women At Woodstock 2018; she’ll
Women At Woodstock Playlist – “Feels Like Woodstock”
Here’s an eclectic playlist: indie folk from thoughtful young songwriters, music from around the world, classical music, and more. I hope it transports you to other times & places, inspires dreams, and maybe lifts up in you those utopian hopes from the summer of ’69 – the time of Woodstock. P.S. If you have trouble
I’m Giving Up. And It’s All Good. Better, Even.
If it’s at all techie, I like to do it myself. It’s my lifelong obsession. Show me a panel of buttons, an array of switches, or a bunch of code, and I’ve gotta learn how to work that thing. When I was six, I begged for a “dashboard” for Christmas. I tore the wrapping off
Creative Circles – an Old-Fashioned Bee, Multiplied
A few weeks ago we asked what everyone thought about having a sort of an old-fashioned bee at Women At Woodstock, only ramped up; more than one circle, each centered around one type of task or creative endeavor; women sharing and doing and chatting side-by-side. We asked for a vote on the best name. The
“Complainers”
An amazing performance on Button Poetry of spoken-word poet Rudy Francisco’s “Complainers.” ?? I have no words… pic.twitter.com/oE805oOAbC — тнU§σ Mвє∂u (@ThusoMbedu) October 19, 2017
Name This Bee
Loesje Shema (WAW 2017) wrote to me to suggest that at the next Women At Woodstock, maybe some of us could demonstrate/show how to do some craft/creative things that we do with our hands. At first I thought, no, that would not be practical for our Flash Workshops. And then I thought, but who says we have