“I so enjoyed the writing circle with the group “from away’s” connections and participation.
It was a joy and a gift! Thank you for doing this. My writing heart is home in your circles.” – Stephanie, Ontario, Canada
2025 Women’s Writing Circle on Zoom
Writing Life:
nourish yourself, honour your voice, write your stories
with Mary Ann Moore
Summer has no structure, don’t you find? For some, that’s great. For others, it means routine is abandoned and things fall apart, especially our writing.
How can you keep up the momentum with your writing project?
How will you sustain your writing journey that is a communion with yourself?
Consistency is important for any creative endeavour says Sarah Selecky in Story is a State of Mind: Writing and the Art of Creative Curiosity.
This July, I am offering something different to help you with keep up your momentum ~ a five-day women’s writing circle on Zoom. This is something new for me. I think it will be an excellent way to stay connected to your writing for a part of each day and actually get some work done over a five-day period.
How does it work? We’ll meet each day of the five days for an hour. You’ll receive encouragement, writing and sharing time, and the momentum to continue working on your own. This hour spent in a supportive writing community will nourish you as you continue to work on your own.
I started women’s writing circles in my living room in Toronto in 1997. I needed companions for the writing journey. I still feel that way now. I’ll be working along with you with some generative writing prompts to prime the pump so to speak and perhaps even give you ideas for your particular project.
Our daily topics will include:
Day 1 Answering the Call,
Day 2 A House in the Rain,
Day 3 Inside the Treasure House that is You,
Day 4 Basking in Possibility, and
Day 5 The Stories we Tend.
Resources for your writing journey
When you express interest in the five days of “Devotion & Delight,” I’ll send you my handout, A Conversation with Fear, to help you deal with any anxiety you may be feeling around your decision to dedicate this time to your writing.
When you sign up, I’ll send you my PDF workbook: Devotion & Delight: Honouring Your Writing Practice. The workbook offers encouragement for your writing practice to bring your stories into the light. It will help you see your stories are yours alone to say.
Your Intention
Once we state a clear intention for this time, all sorts of things come into play to help us. Tell me what your intention is for the five days i.e. what you’re intending to work on. That can be done in the form of an aspiration or invocation such as “May I continue to work on my poetry manuscript.” Or it could be an affirmation: “I am proud of myself for dedicating this time to work on my memoir.”
I’m excited about embarking on this writing journey together. It’s a chance to feel grounded in our writing practice, in community, and to continue to give attention to an ongoing project that is important to us.
This is a five-day practice that will offer you some insight about how you can actually write at home.
Devotion & Delight: Honouring Your Writing Practice
a women’s writing circle with Mary Ann Moore
Dates: Monday, July 7 to Friday, July 11, 2025 (five consecutive days on Zoom)
Time: 10 am. To 11 a.m. Pacific time
Fee: $195
To pay by e-transfer, please send your payment to creativity@maryannmoore.ca. By cheque, you can send it, made out to Mary Ann Moore, to 76 Colwell Road, Nanaimo, B.C. V9X 1E4
For those outside Canada, PayPal is an option
.Please let me know if angel funds would help you be able to manage the fee.
And, for those able to contribute to angel funds, please let me know. Whether you’re able to attend this particular circle or not, some financial assistance to help women with a limited income so they can attend, would be most appreciated. Angel funds can be applied to this particular circle, summer pop-up circles, or future circles such as “Writing for the Love of It” at Bethlehem Centre, Nanaimo on October 18, 2025.
On Zoom wherever you are
July 7 to 11, 2025
Five consecutive days – 10 am to 11 am Pacific time. Fee: $195 CDN
Intent
- To provide a safe place for people to tell their stories.
- To find the still centre of ourselves and of the circle.
- To write what has heart and meaning for us.
- To realize our role as leaders in a circle of leaders.
- To remember the divine feminine and
embrace our female and male teachers. - To become a community of peers
slowing down to a natural rhythm
You [women of the circle from away] make it very easy to share my writing. The way we hold one another up, the level of encouragement, is very touching. It’s an honour to be part of this circle experience. – Tabitha, Ontario, Canada
. . . what a gift you have given us all with this writing circle. I imagine those who attended your live version wish it could continue, but please let them know that I for one look forward to these gifts in my inbox. – Josephine, Alberta, Canada
Benefits
- An exploration of your relationship to silence and stillness,
- A variety of writing prompts to get you started,
- Guidelines for your own journaling practice and various other forms,
- References for reading and inspiration,
- Support from a circle of women who are also writing,
- Witnesses to your creative journey,
- A creative boost and a reminder that your creativity
makes a healthy impact on your life and on the world.
“Writing was the healing place where I could collect the bits and pieces, where I could put them together again. It was the sanctuary, the safe place.” – bell hooks
The prompt to write regularly and your understanding of the mystery of nature, poetry and the English language makes your courses valuable to me! – Outi, Finland
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