This writing workshop is aboutĀ how to write the tough stuff. We'll have a conversation about the pros and cons of writing about traumatic events and how to make meaning from your experiences as you write powerful, transformational stories that go beyond your wound and into the universals that serve your readers.Ā
Lisa will ground writers in the neuroscience of trauma, why they are attracted to writing about tough topics, and the number one thing they must do if they want to serve readers and themselves.
Meet Guest Instructor,Ā Lisa Cooper Ellison
Lisa Cooper Ellison is an author, speaker, trauma-informed writing coach, and host of the Writing Your Resilience podcast. She works and writes at the intersection of storytelling and healing, and combines her personal experiences with suicide loss and CPTSD with her clinical training to help writers turn tough experiences into art. Her essays and stories have appeared on Risk! and in The New York Times, HuffPost, Hippocampus Literary Magazine, and Kenyon Review Online, among others.
For the past decade, the HerStories Project has published writing by and for midlife women. We've published five anthologies, led dozens of writing groups, and taught writing online to hundreds of women.