We write to tell a story or a tall tale, to narrate our personal stories, to explore our past and write towards an epiphany, to figure out what happened, or for personal enrichment.
How to go from ideas to writing our stories?
Writers Forum hosts free writing workshops on the Zoom Platform, featuring a variety of teachers, workshop leaders, and experts in the writing arena.
We welcome beginning and experienced writers.
ZOOM URL will be posted February 2026
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Telling Your Life Story
Presenter: Kate Farrell
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Pacific Time
FREE ON ZOOM
The value of writing a memoir lies in its capacity for self-reflection and healing, preserving legacy for future generations, and building empathy by sharing your unique perspective. Unlike a chronological autobiography, a memoir focuses on a specific period or theme, allowing you to craft a cohesive and meaningful narrative from your lived experience.
By sharing your vulnerabilities and triumphs, your story can inspire others who have gone through similar experiences. Your words can be a powerful guide for someone else on their own journey toward healing. A well-told personal narrative can help readers connect and fosters a greater sense of empathy.
However, memoir writing is often an emotionally intense process that can resurrect old feelings and traumas. We’ll discuss the ups and downs of writing a memoir, how to find support and use techniques in the process. For two of these four points, we’ll write and share our experiences.
Kate Farrell, storyteller, author, librarian, founded the Word Weaving Project: Learning through Storytelling; published numerous educational materials on storytelling, and contributed to and edited award-winning anthologies of personal narrative. Farrell’s award-winning recent book is a how-to guide on the art of storytelling, Story Power: Secrets to Creating, Crafting, and Telling Memorable Stories. Kate is the founder of Woven: Telling the Heroine’s Journey based on her work with storytelling, finding profound meaning in the archetypes of feminine fairy tales. She shares her process in workshops and on Substack. Kate is now under contract with Sibylline Press for publication of her book, The Fairy Tale Heroine: Live and Create Her Journey, to be released Winter 2027, as part of their Imprint, Sibyl Writing Craft.
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Presenter: Samantha Rose
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Pacific Time
FREE ON ZOOM
Samantha Rose is an Emmy award-winning television producer and a New York Times, USA Today internationally bestselling ghostwriter of nearly twenty titles, some that have been selected as Reese's Book Club and Target Bookmarked Picks.
Her writing has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Oprah and Harper's Bazaar.
She is the principal of Yellow Sky Media, a boutique editorial agency in Petaluma, California, where she lives with her son.
Her new book, "Giving Up the Ghost" was awarded Best Memoir at the 2025 San Francisco Book Festival.
"Giving Up the Ghost" is her first title written under her own name.
The Write Spot, a seven-book series features writing that entertains as well as offering inspiration for writers.
All of the stories, vignettes, and poems in The Write Spot books include writing prompts. These books are like portable writing groups.
The Write Spot books are available from your local bookseller and as both print and ereaders from Amazon.
“Writing isn’t about the destination – writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.” —Sue Grafton
