CALLING ALL WOMEN WRITERS, POETS & CREATIVE SOULS

Please join me at the upcoming International Women’s Writing Guild Conference at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI, August 1-5, 2024

I’m teaching “Entering the Path: Finding Your Beginnings,” a generative class for writers of short stories, narrative non-fiction, memoir and extended (book length) narratives. 

This is a workshop in which we will wade into a stream of possibilities to find a jumping off place and provide momentum to propel your work forward. Combining play, imagination and helpful craft techniques, you’ll come away with material to not only start your work off strong, but also to keep you on the path to your endings. 

Registration is open now for this gathering of women writers in all stages of their writing life in all genres. Stay on the beautiful seaside campus or come as a commuter. Day rates available.

Williams University
Bristol, Rhode Island
August 1-5, 2024

KEY WEST LIBRARY READING

Join Janice in the beautiful palm garden of the Key West Library for Cafe Con Libros. She will read and discuss her award-winning memoir, ​Short Leash: A Memoir of Dogwalking and Deliverance and talk about the role pets play as emotional touchstones to our personal history.

Cafe Con Libros, Key West Library
700 Fleming St. Key West, FL
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 10:00 am
(Wait list only)
If you are interested in upcoming sessions of the Wild Wisdom Writing Circle, please send an email via contact page and we will contact you when a new session begins.

WILD WISDOM WRITING CIRCLE

(FOR WOMEN WRITERS AGES 60+)
A collaboration with the International Women’s Writing Guild
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After we turn 60, a kind of alchemy begins stirring in our hearts and bones. Although we may have felt “old” before, our relationship to aging becomes more real and undeniable. It’s a time of great changes and great challenges, but along with the losses and physical wake-up calls comes an extraordinary opportunity for growth. For women, this can be an especially liberating time, as we shed our need to please others and claim our time for ourselves to create the life we want to live. For writers, it’s a chance to gather our life onto the page and let it rip - writing wild and true about where we’ve been and where we are now. 
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The Wild Wisdom Writing Circle will meet twice a month. There will be prompts and exercises to generate material, an opportunity to share in small groups and lively discussions of writing wild and wise in your 60’s and beyond.

Session A: Tuesdays from 1:00 - 3:00 EST  every 2 weeks for nine weeks: April 13, April 27, May 11, May 25, June 8      SOLD OUT

Session B: Tuesdays from 1:00 - 3:00 EST  every 2 weeks for nine weeks: April 15, April 29, May 13, May 27, June 10     SOLD OUT
Thursday, June 25th, 2020 (event is over)
2:00-3:30 pm EST
If you are interested in being put on waitlist for next workshop,  contact [email protected]

WRITING YOUR SPIRITUAL JOURNEY

Many of us have been seekers all our lives, travelers on a spiritual journey. The story of that journey is no small thing. It is a tale of healing, joy, pain and transcendence. And writing it can be an act of discovery, a way of illuminating and understanding yourself and the sacred world in a deeper way.

In this afternoon workshop, author Janice Gary will provide writing prompts and bursts of generative exercises to help you trace the arc of your spiritual journey from your religious training  (confirmation, bar mitzvah, meditation, etc.) to private moments of awe, wonder, desperation and healing.

You’ll come away with plenty of material to generate essays, poems, blog posts or the ultimate travelogue – a spiritual memoir.
NOTE: The workshop is being offered free of charge as a gift for writers. I am also using this occasion to help support Unity of the Keys Spiritual Center for those who wish to make a voluntary love offering after the workshop. Contact will be provided after the workshop for those who would like to contribute.
Listen to this one hour Zoom workshop produced by International Women's Writing Guild.
Click below.  (Recorded 7/10/20)

WRITING THROUGH THE SENSES: Embodying the World through Words
Price $150//$125 members for four sessions.
​Scholarships available upon request. 

MEMOIR MONDAYS ONLINE

Writing the Changing World 

4 Mondays: April 27, May 4, May 11, May 18

Suddenly, it seems, our lives have changed dramatically. We are living in what feels like extraordinary times. But the truth is our lives have always held the shape of a mythic journey. Telling the story of that journey is exactly the work of writing memoir. 

In this four week writing workshop, we will use our present circumstances as an opportunity to see our lives in a bigger way, with more bravery and heart. We will explore the “sudden now” as well as the “then,” times in our past when we were faced with big changes. Let’s open up the borders, write about what scares us, what thrills us, what we hope for, what we love, what we’ve learned. 

We will talk about what writing memoir means, especially in times like this. And we will write, allowing our stories to emerge organically.

This workshop is for all levels. You do not have to consider yourself a writer to take this class. 

THE WRITER’S PATH

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19

​GO TO IWWG.ORG FOR ONLINE EVENTS SUCH AS OPEN MIC READINGS, WORKSHOPS, AND A WRITING COMMUNITY FOR WOMEN LIKE NO OTHER.

The 2020 International Women’s Writing Guild, 43rd Annual Summer Conference

July 25-27, 2020  (Full conference July 25-30)   10:15-11:45 a.m. Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts

Join me at the International Women’s Writing Guild Conference in Beverley, Massachusetts for an incredible week of writing, art-making and connection in a space that honors and celebrates women’s voices. You will be dance. You will play. You will write. Expect to be inspired!

Attend one day, three days or all five days.

I’ll be teaching three separate workshops which together make up “The Writer’s Path” on July 25th, 26th and 27th. We will focus on getting the writing done and out into the world and discuss the inner and outer challenges faced to produce work, fine tune it and find a home for it.

July 25th: Getting It Done: Tips, Tools and Tricks for Coming Back to the Writing
July 26th: Revision and Refining: Learning to “Re-see” Your Work
July 27th: Submission: the Art of Rejection and Resilience