An Evening of Live Storytelling

Join Wildfire’s April Stearns and guest editor & Executive Director of Rethink Breast Cancer, MJ DeCoteau live on the Zoom stage, where the writers of the “Living Well” issue will bring their stories to life; memoir in the writers’ own voices!

Sunday, October 5, 2025

7 pm EST/4 pm PST (2 hours)

RSVP to receive the free Zoom link by submitting the form below.

Or email us at emily@wildfirecommunity.org.

This popular and poignant event is a companion to our Living Well issue. This issue is living proof that living well after diagnosis is available to all of us. We asked our writers—the ones currently living with no evidence of disease as well as the ones learning to live alongside metastatic disease—to share their stories of transformation from diagnosis toward living deeply, beautifully and fully inspite of cancer. And they answered! With the essays, poems, and gorgeous photographs that allow us to vicariously walk a day in their shoes.

Be sure to grab your own copy of the issue to follow along! Scroll down to see the night’s readers.

Underwriter Support of this Issue and Live Event by:

ABCD: After Breast Cancer Diagnosis; AnaOno; iRise Above Foundation; Young Survival Coalition, Liv & Let - Giv Shoppe; and Rethink Breast Cancer

Meet The Night’s Featured Storytellers

  • MJ DeCoteau headshot

    MJ DeCoteau

    Event Co-Host

    Issue Guest Editor

  • April Stearns headshot

    April Stearns

    Event Co-Host

    Editor-in-Chief

  • Chance Osborne Headshot

    Chance Osborne

    Reader

    “Choosing Myself: A Love Letter to Living”

  • Kate Rowbotham headshot

    Kate Rowbotham

    Reader

    “A New Philosophy”

  • Cheri Henderson headshot

    Cheri Henderson

    Reader

    “Step by Step to the South Rim”

  • Robby Spring headshot

    Robby Spring

    Reader

    “Where Old Meets New”

  • Gillian Lichota headshot

    Gillian Lichota

    Reader

    “The Healing Is in the Living”

  • Lisa Mannina-Sulzer headshot

    Lisa Mannina-Sulzer

    Reader

    “A Love Letter to the Life I’m Building”

We hope to see you there!

Sunday, October 5, 2025

7 pm EST/4 pm PST

RSVP using the form above for the Zoom link.