Welcome! This free online discussion series features writers who have a heart for helping other writers. The topic is different in each month. Each session includes time for open, informal discussion. Everyone is welcome to participate! Information about our next event:
When: Tuesday, September 9 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT
Topic: “Trauma-Informed Writing: The Power of Narrative for Post-Traumatic Growth”
Description: Post-traumatic growth isn’t just a buzzword. It is a quiet, courageous process of transformation. During this session, JoLanda Rogers, author of A Pocket Message Trilogy for Survivors, Responders, and Perpetrators of Child Sexual Abuse , will guide us through the ways writing can support healing after trauma. With clinical insight and lived experience, JoLanda will unpack how storytelling can lead to new awareness, deeper self-compassion, and unexpected hope. Participants will be invited to explore what it means to write safely with your nervous system rather than against it, and how voice, structure, and audience awareness can support our healing, not just our platform. Participants will leave with prompts, practices, and a deeper understanding of how to write bravely and gently.
Event is free but registration is required here .
Recordings of past sessions: Each session is recorded and available on this page. Past discussions can be found at the links below.
August 2025 : “Sustaining a Writing Practice” with Kate H. RademacherMay 2025 : “Dealing with Discouragement” with Shemaiah GonzalezApril 2025 : Open Mic Night – Thanks to everyone who participated!March 2025 : “Writing in Lent” with Phoebe Farag MikhailFebruary 2025 : “Speaking Your Writing into Being” with Roger HutchisonJanuary 2025: Open Mic Night – Thanks to everyone who participated!December 2024 : “Writing in Advent” with Kate H. RademacherNovember 2024: “Integrating Faith, Culture, and Social Justice in our Writing” with Marie ChanOctober 2024 : “The Spirituality of Creativity” with Amanda Udis-KesslerSeptember 2024 : “Writing Trauma That Heals” with Kate KennedyMarch 2024: Open Mic Night (not recorded). Thanks to all who participated!
February 2024 : “Writing from a Whole Place: Role of Self-Advocacy in Resonant Writing” with Nya AbernathyJanuary 2024 : “Goal setting for Spiritual Writers” with Kate H. RademacherNovember 2023: Open Mic Night (not recorded). Thanks to all who participated!
October 2023 : “Writing with Faithfulness” with Dr. Portia BrownSeptember 2023 : “Creating Poetry from Prose” with Marla TavianoMay 2023: “Exploring contemporary issues through a scriptural lens” with the Rev. Dr. Dorothy Sanders Wells April 2023 : “Platform Building for Beginners” with Caroline Beidler March 2023 : “The Ethical Memoir: How to Tell the Truth about Yourself and Others Without Burning the Whole Thing Down” with Molly BasketteFebruary 2023 : “Tips for Maximizing Freelance Opportunities” with Kyle NormanJanuary 2023 : “Writing to the Spiritual Needs of Our Time” with David MorrisDecember 2022 : “Journaling and Writing: The Inner Dimensions of Our Outward Journey” with Wes Granberg-MichaelsonNovember 2022 : “Today’s Holy Spirit Writers” with Victoria McAfeeOctober 2022 : “ How to Write About Hard and Controversial Things” with Kerry Connelly September 2022 : “Writing as Risk and Renewal with Susan K. Williams SmithMay 2022 : “Disarming: Unpacking Loaded Language with Marilyn McEntyreApril 2022 : “Being a Bi-Vocational Writer” – If/how we can honor our multiple vocational callings with Kate RademacherMarch 2022 : “The power of representation” with Dorena WilliamsonFebruary 2022 : “Building your network — How to form, maintain, and navigate relationships with other authors” with Traci SmithJanuary 2022 : “When you’re told your writing is too secular for Christian publishers, and too Christian for secular publishers” with Arthur BolkasDecember 2021 : “Identifying guiding words to remind us why we write” with Brent BillNovember 2021 : “Finishing Well: completing projects in a topsy-turvy world” with Sophfronia Scott October 2021 : “Navigating Your Interior Life While Writing” with Vinita Hampton Wright
September 2021 : “Connecting With Your Audience Before You Write Your Book” with Sharon Norris ElliottJune 2021 : “Writing Flash Fiction” featuring Xochitl DixonMay 2021 : “What the Ancient Stoics Have Taught Me About Being a Writer–And What They Can Teach You Too.” with Lori EricksonApril 2021 : “What Is a Writing Coach and Should I Invest in One?” with Erin HealyMarch 2021 : “The Art of Interviewing” with Philip YanceyFebruary 2021 : “The Challenges of Writing into Reality and Division” with Diana Butler BassJanuary 2021 : “Time for a New Start” with Lyn CrydermanDecember 2020 : “Ending the Year Well” with Brent BillNovember 2020 : “Writing During a Chaotic 2020” with Patricia RaybonOctober 2020 : “Publishing Children’s Books” with Glenys NellistJuly 2020 : “Creative Ways to Vision the Future of the Spiritual Writing” with Jennifer Grant
Welcome! This free online discussion series features writers who have a heart for helping other writers. The topic is different in each month. Each session includes time for open, informal discussion. Everyone is welcome to participate! Information about our next event: