Workshops
I run engaging, interactive workshops and am always looking to empower fellow writers. Some examples:
Raise The Stakes
Intensify stories using concrete tools to make every scene matter more, raising the stakes for characters, plots, and writers themselves.
Break down public, personal, and author stakes to discover what’s truly at risk and why readers should care.
Use Donald Maass’s breakout checklists to escalate tension and deepen emotional investment.
Explore Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “dangerously truthful” writing approach to uncover your own creative vulnerability.
By The End Of This Workshop, You’ll Have An Outline
Turn scattered ideas into a clear, flexible roadmap. Participants walk away with a working outline, new story clarity, and permission to ditch formulas that don’t serve their book.
Compare and experiment with multiple outlining frameworks: three-act structure, Blake Snyder’s beat sheet, and the “Once upon a time…” model.
Leave the session with a concrete, personalized roadmap to keep your novel on track from first scene to finale.
Prompts To Get You Out Of Block
A generative writing workshop designed to help writers reconnect with flow, curiosity, and emotional truth through guided freewriting.
Learn freewriting techniques that bypass perfectionism and silence the inner critic.
Exercises are adaptable for fiction, memoir, poetry, or journaling, useful for all types of writers.
Leave with a repeatable creative practice you can return to any time you hit a wall in your writing.
Panels
I am passionate about crafting the Must-Attend panel at any convention. I ideate panel topics and formats, work with panelists to help them feel comfortable and confident, and moderate the panel and audience questions. My bar for success is nothing less than being the standout panel of the con.
We Finished Our Projects And So Can You
w/ Ruthanne Reid & Megan Lloyd
Join these panelists as they dive into showing YOU how to complete your long labored projects! Each creative will spotlight a recently finished project and share their top tools and tips for how they got that project over the finish line.
Ask A Pro
w/ Ruthanne Reid, Pacific Obadiah, and Lisa Conway-Bühler
Which platforms just aren’t worth a podcaster’s time? What are the best ways to grow your audience? What’s it like to publish a book on Amazon? Google these questions, you’ll get ten different answers – so we’ve invited industry experts to answer YOUR questions directly!
Come Craft With Us
w/ Demelza
Join us with your crafting project in this cozy Sunday morning panel as we chat about crafting as a career. Demelza will finish a plush, answer questions, and show us how she starts a brand new project – by taking a character suggestion from the audience! For extra credit, bring a crafting project to work on during the panel!
Interviews w/ Harlan Guthrie
Podcaster Harlan Guthrie is the creator of hit horror podcast Malevolent as well as sci-fi horror limited series Deviser. I’ve been lucky enough to count Harlan as a mentor and friend; his generosity with time and platform is inspirational.
