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Writing Workshop

A Free Monthly Workshop with a Changing Focus

If you know Wildfire Magazine, you know each issue is on a theme related to our survivorship. Our free pop-up writing workshops are prompt-based and change monthly. Each are focused around a specific theme or population relevant to our community. This is a great way to dip your pen in the proverbial ink or find a new community that is especially relevant to your experience. Join us to connect with your community while getting in touch with your story.


Who is it for this month?

Sign up for our Hot Flashes newsletter to be the first to hear about our next pop-up.

How does it work?

Join your Wildfire community to learn how to start writing along with others who understand you. In this 90 minute prompt-style workshop, we’ll write away some of our stress and find some healing in the long run by using writing as a tool to find meaning. You’ll make new friends and fill a notebook along the way, even if you don’t consider yourself a writer! No writing experience is necessary to participate. Facilitated by your host, April Stearns.

The workshop includes:

  • 60 minutes of writing (divided among different prompts)

  • April's quick tips for accessing and writing stories

  • Time for sharing your writing after each prompt if you wish

  • Devoted time to transition in and out of writing with poetry and guided breathing


Who is it for this month?

Sign up for our Hot Flashes newsletter to be the first to hear about our next pop-up.

How does it work?

Join your Wildfire community to learn how to start writing along with others who understand you. In this 90 minute prompt-style workshop, we’ll write away some of our stress and find some healing in the long run by using writing as a tool to find meaning. You’ll make new friends and fill a notebook along the way, even if you don’t consider yourself a writer! No writing experience is necessary to participate. Facilitated by your host, April Stearns.

The workshop includes:

  • 60 minutes of writing (divided among different prompts)

  • April's quick tips for accessing and writing stories

  • Time for sharing your writing after each prompt if you wish

  • Devoted time to transition in and out of writing with poetry and guided breathing

Some describe this group as therapy, some say it is better than therapy.

I just attended one of April Stearns’ pop-up writing workshops and WOW. I felt the heaviness leak from my finger tips. I haven’t come across anything in life that can leave me feeling so much lighter and calmer in just 1.5 hours.
— Victoria V.
  • Parenting with Cancer

  • Body Image

  • Fertility Loss

  • Triple Negative Breast Cancer

  • Metastatic Breast Cancer

  • Love and Intimacy

  • Mother and Daughters

  • And More!

Past Workshop Themes

*(If you are/were older than 50 at the time of your diagnosis, and still want in, email me to discuss: editor@wildfirecommunity.org)

Ready to deepen your writing connection? Check out our other workshops!