For more INFO and/or to Register: blueberryhillwriting@mac.com

Creative Writing Workshops

(All BBH writing workshops are fully enrolled through August ’24)

You’ve always wanted to write. Here’s your chance. Write with Nancy Rose. For experienced and emerging writers of all genres—poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, memoir, life story writing. We write in response to prompts, using the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) workshop method created by Pat Schneider. Participants may also offer manuscripts for group review. No previous writing experience required. Handouts at each session. Limited to 8 writers. blueberryhillwriting@mac.com

Saturday Writing Retreats

Summer ’24 Retreat Dates fully enrolled

Fully immerse yourself in writing. Each Saturday retreat begins with refreshments as we gather together to write, to reacquaint ourselves with our innate creativity and restore ourselves after the long work-week. We will deepen our commitment to our writing, tap memories, explore new material and discuss our varying writing lives and routines. Blueberry Hill is located on the lee side of beautiful Mt. Orient. Stroll the many acres of meadow and orchard, walk the woodland trails, visit the frog pond or sit on the patio and dream. No previous writing experience needed. Feel free to bring work you’ve begun at home. Fee includes refreshments, snacks and multiple handouts. Bring your own LUNCH (full kitchen available). All retreats require payment in full two weeks before start-date. Info: blueberryhillwriting@mac.com.

Writing Life Stories

Summer ’24 fully enrolled

6-Session commitment. Writing a life story differs from writing a memoir, though there are similarities. Rather than writing a “slice of life” story, which a memoir may be, Life Story Writing is geared toward those of us who have entered our autumn years and want to tell the whole story while we still have time. Here is your chance to review your life so far, to recall highlights, anecdotes, and joys, to remember the people and events that have influenced you, and to consider the roads taken and not taken. Tell your story in your own words. Story is really all we have of ourselves. Anne Lamott says, You’re going to feel like hell if you wake up one day and you never wrote the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves of your heart: your stories, memories, visions and songs, your truths, your version of things, in your own voice.

For more info and to register: blueberryhillwriting@mac.com.

Writing Our Way Through Loss

3-Session commitment (with optional: six sessions) for those experiencing grief and/or living with loss, either personally or relationally. We will write about who and where we are now, where we need to be to become our best selves, and we will let our words take us there. This is not a therapy group, though writing is certainly therapeutic. Reading aloud is never required, but if we choose to share our words, group responses will focus on the writing, not the writer. For more info and to register: blueberryhillwriting@mac.com.

Manuscript Intensive

6-Month commitment includes six monthly sessions. Focus is on deep revision and craft. Workshop is limited to six writers who are committed to serious revising AND willing to carefully read & comment on the work of other participants. Application (with sample of writing in your preferred genre) required. For info and specifics: blueberryhillwriting@mac.com.

Spiritual Autobiography

(Amherst, MA—occasional/seasonal)

An exploration of our spiritual selves: who or what has influenced and inspired us, what has set us on our current spiritual paths. Open to people of ALL faiths as well as skeptics, seekers, and doubters. We will explore internal sources of faith and hope. We will tap early memories and impressions of the divine and contemplate possible paths that lie before us.  In response to guided writing, participants will be invited to share emergent insights and discoveries, though we will keep private the content of our writing. Limited to eight participants.  Info and specifics: blueberryhillwriting@mac.com.

Literary Consultation & Mentoring

Are you interested in writing a memoir but unsure how or where to begin? Do you have an idea for a story, but can’t find time in your busy schedule to get words on paper? Do you have short stories, essays, or poems underway, but don’t know how to fine-tune and weave them together into a collection?

Together, we will plan your literary journey by focusing on your goals, your writing interests and habits, your current time commitments and lifestyle.

Consultation package for NEW clients: fee includes two (optional) consultations and review/critique of up to 40 pages of prose pages or 7 to 10 poems. blueberryhillwriting@mac.com for info and specifics.

What are you waiting for? Write with me…on Blueberry Hill…