It’s time to change the trajectory of your writing — Manifestation coach, Matt Cooke, will be facilitating a Story Summit workshop specifically for writers on Sunday, March 12, at 3 pm — 4 pm Eastern. You can read more about it here. If you are looking for a way to kick-start your writing career, this manifestation workshop could be for…

Superman, Morse Code, and One of the Most Read and Moving Memoirs of the 20th Century Were Born from Grief — I wrote this to my Story Summit writing students . I share it here as it may encourage someone: Samuel Morse In the mid 19th Century, Samuel Morse returned home from a distant job to find his young wife dead from a fever, he vowed to change things — people should know…

Dragan will be attending the 2022 Story Summit at the Kauai Writers Conference — Dragan Veselinovic, a PH.D. in film and media history, is the first winner of the Storyteller Foundation Writing Award. The award includes ongoing online education and attendance at this year’s Story Summit at the Kauai Writers Conference in November 2022. “We are thrilled to make this announcement,” says Debra Engle…

At 66 years old, I challenged myself to reach a big fitness goal. That meant creating the right mindset as well as increasing my physical endurance. — Step-Aware to Intrigued by a Goal I wasn’t obsessed with my daily step count. Yes, I had a Fitbit. Yes, I had the step reader on my iPhone. But I wasn’t obsessed with it like my younger brother was. If he didn’t get his 10,000 steps in a day, after dinner he would walk around his…

What You Need to Know from Top Agents, Editors and Authors — Are you a novelist (or future novelist)? Take a giant leap toward securing a great deal with a big publishing house with our 11-part prestige series, Getting a Traditional Publishing Deal. This live, interactive workshop is designed to aid novelists, memoirists, and non-fiction authors in their pursuit of a literary…

As loosely transcribed from Robert Edward Grant’s conversation on the Deja Blu Podcast — The practice for the Diamond Consciousness Meditation is best realized at sunrise. It’s a simple three-step methodology: Prepare your presence: Take 5 deep breaths, hold it, and while exhaling let go of everything: biases, fears, anxieties, and all attachments. Face the sunrise : Chant in this order — E —…

Catrice Greer, Celeste Keplin, and Babs Cheung to Attend — Jane Sibbett, chairperson of the Storyteller Foundation and faculty member of Story Summit, announces the first three scholarship awards for the Her Spirit Story Summit. The writers’ conference takes place in December 2022 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and will be attended by more than one hundred women writers. “The…

She’s not what you think . . . — The witch is not a horror symbol but a symbol of liberation. Arthur Miller, as brilliant as he was, got it wrong about the Salem Witch Trails. What was really going on in those Salem woods? …

Written in 90 Minutes: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 — Originally written in 1935 and published in 1938 in the Parisian Review, this piece became the classic prelude to his Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel published posthumously, A Death In The Family. Time Magazine called James Agee’s prose-poem , Knoxville, Summer 1915, “the most ecstatic piece of writing ever composed about an American…