Fall workshops begin in October!

Registration open for Fall workshops!
Join us!

Beginning in October, I'm again offering three AWA-method workshops: our Monday night Write Whole group for women survivors of sexual trauma, the Tuesday night erotic workshop (open to all genders!), and our Wednesday morning women's sensuality writing workshop!

Write Whole: Survivors Write
Monday evenings 10/6-12/1.
Gather with other women survivors of sexual trauma to create new art and new beauty out of the difficult and complicated realities of our lives. You'll be encouraged to trust the flow of your own writing, and receive immediate feedback about the power of your words!

Declaring Our Erotic
Tuesday pm, 10/7-12/2.
Get more comfortable exploring and talking about sexual desires, receive strong and focused feedback about your new writing, explore the varied and complex aspects of sexuality and desire, and, of course, try your hand at some explicit erotic writing! In 8 weeks, you'll create an exciting body of fresh and often surprising new writing!

Raw Silk: Women write desire
Wednesday mornings, 10/8-12/3.
Spend your Wednesday mornings wrapping yourself in the language of longing, celebrating the complex textures of sensuality. Each week, we delve into a new thread in the interweaving of our desires: memory, fantasy, experience, relationship with the body, spirituality, and so on. Experience your fully empowered writing voice in this safe, confidential, and fun erotic writing workshop. Explore desire through writing with Raw Silk.

Changing our language can change who we understand ourselves to be.

No previous experience necessary! Pre-registration required. Fee for 8-week AWA workshops is $250. Workshops held our wheelchair accessible downtown SF location, right near BART and multiple MUNI routes!

As always, if you've got any questions, please send them to me at jennifer (at) writingourselveswhole (dot) org. Use the links at the top of this page to learn more info, or visit www.writingourselveswhole.org to register!

Reminder: Summer writing workshops begin next week!

Eight-week writing workshops
With Writing Ourselves Whole!

Summer workshops begin July 14 and 15
www.writingourselveswhole.org


**Write Whole-Survivors Write**
meets Monday evenings, beginning July 14.
Open to women survivors of sexual trauma.
Gather with other survivors to create new art and new beauty out of your experiences, and deepen your sense of wholeness. (note: both "woman" and "survivor" are intended to be self-defined.)


**Declaring Our Erotic**
meets Tuesday evenings, beginning July 15.
Open to folks of all sexualities and all genders!
DOE workshops provide a space to get more comfortable exploring and talking about sexuality and desire, and to become less inhibited in your own writing. Share your manuscripts with peer writers for well-rounded response to your erotic work, and create an exciting body of fresh and (often) surprising new writing in 8 weeks!

No previous writing experience necessary -- Open to folks of
all writing abilities!

Workshops held in San Francisco in an accessible space, a half-block from BART and on many MUNI lines. Spaces are limited and pre-registration is required! Cost for 8 weeks is $250. To register, visit www.writingourselveswhole.org!

About your facilitator: Jen Cross is a freelance writer
whose work has been published in numerous anthologies, and
is fresh off the very successful Body Heat tour with
kathleen delaney and Vixen Noir/Veronica Combs! She's a
queer incest survivor, and has facilitated writing workshops
for the past 5 years. She received her MA in Transformative
Language Arts from Goddard College, and is a certified
facilitator of the Amherst Writers & Artists method
(http://www.amherstwriters.com/).

Erotic/sensuality writing workshops begin next week!

EDIT: Note new workshop start dates!

There are still spaces available in both of the Writing Ourselves Whole sensuality/erotic writing workshops that begin next Tuesday, 5/6, and Wednesday, 5/7 -- please spread the word!

Register at http://www.writingourselveswhole.org/Contact.htm!

Declaring Our Erotic begins Tuesday evening, May 6. Open to folks of all sexualities and all genders!

Raw Silk: Women write desire begins Wednesday morning, May 7. Open to all women.

Workshops meet in downtown San Francisco in an accessible, BART-friendly location. Write to jennifer (at) writingourselveswhole (dot) org, or visit www.writingourselveswhole.org, for more information about the workshops or your facilitator, Jen Cross.

Here's what some folks have said about these workshops:

Magic happens here, that's the thing. We explore the politics of desire in the most amazing ways. Jen's workshops are good nourishment for the soul and creativity, as well as really empowering and FUN!!! Go toward the fun..... -- Cayenne

The chance to integrate erotica and language, out loud in community, every week, is such a human delight and relief--it can lead us to unexpected discoveries, both inside us and out there in the world. --LB

Interested? Or know someone else who might be? Send me a note at jennifer@writingourselveswhole.org, and I can tell you whatever you'd like to know about how to get some more erotic writing into your week days.