Creative Writing Bootcamp: Find Your Voice
A 5-day generative online creative writing workshop
July 17-21, 2023
10am-12pm ET
$222
In a world inundated with the message of being your authentic self and expressing your singular voice, many of us can’t distinguish between what’s the voice we think other people want to hear from us and our TRUE voice.
Some questions that often come up:
What IS voice?
How do I find it?
How do I know it’s mine?
In this 5-day bootcamp, you’ll tune into your body and explore your voice through these generative creative writing workshops. The intensity of a 5-day workshop will help us get into the practice of simply writing, without room for the thinking mind (aka: ego) to get in the way. There will be a few readings and lots of writing through prompts and play, meditations and musings.
This bootcamp is for seasoned writers and totally beginners alike! If you’ve always wanted to explore creative writing but were traumatized by a teacher or professor who said you weren’t cut out to be a poet or writer, then this is the class for you to break through that bullsh*t!
Come with a willingness to be open and curious! To experiment! To put pen to paper! To explore language and play with it! To engage your imagination!
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Who Am I?
What makes you YOU? Is it your cultural identity? Is it your environment? Is your family? Who are you?
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What Does My Voice Sound Like?
Take a look at what words you choose, the order in which they land, and what your literal voice sounds like
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What Does My Body Say?
Our bodies talk to us all the time. What can we hear? Let’s practice deep listening to give our bodies space to be heard.
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What Does My Spirit Say?
Our true voices come from within. Deep in the heart space. What do you hear? What voice emerges?
JULY 17-21, 2023
10am-12pm ET
$222
About your facilitator
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About your facilitator ᐧ
Leslieann Hobayan is a poet, essayist, priestess, badass mom, and host of the podcast, Spiritual Grit, a show at the intersection of spirituality and activism. Her chapbook, Divorce Papers: A Slow Burn is from Finishing Line Press, Spring 2023. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a 2018 Best of the Net, her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Aster(ix) Journal, The Grief Diaries, The Lantern Review, The Mom Egg Review, The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit, and elsewhere. She has been awarded the James Merrill Fellowship for Poetry at the Vermont Studio Center, a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation writing fellowship for a residency at Millay Colony for the Arts, a fellowship for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and artist grants for Community of Writers, the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers Conference. Currently teaching at Rutgers University, she’s also a spiritual life coach for women of color, a yoga & meditation teacher, a tarot reader, and facilitates sacred healing circles for people of color.
