FAMILY MATTERS — A MONTHLY MONDAY NIGHT WRITING GROUP
The first Monday of each month- New Session begins Feb 3, 2025 – 2 openings. Dates: Feb, 3, March 3, April 7, May 5, June 2
Our minds are filled with stories — from our lives, our offices, and our dreams. Therapy is one way of digging deep and transforming ourselves. So is writing.
Join our ongoing Monday night monthly writing workshop series. Five, two-hour workshops will help you open up to your own stories. Writing exercises, meditations, and readings will help you bring your stories to life on the page. Whether you are writing fiction or creative non-fiction, memoirs, or personal essays, our workshop will help you tap into your experiences and turn them into stories.
All great works of fiction and creative non-fiction are built on the same premise: story-telling. In these workshops, you will learn how to apply the principles of story-telling to build scenes, develop characters, write dialogue (both interior monologue and spoken dialogue), utilize description, and weave together the threads of your imagination and experience into powerful, memorable stories. For each class, you may submit five pages of your work (1250 words double spaced) and will receive written feedback. All classes include in-class writing prompts, discussion of 250-word homework assignments, and critique of the short, assigned readings you will receive upon registration.
Location: Zoom (until further notice)
Fee: $750. To reserve, please Zelle or Venmo @Judith-Rabinor or send a check to Judy Rabinor, 250 West 90th Street, Suite 7a, NY NY 10024.
Co-taught with Laura Zinn Fromm, award-winning journalist and author of Sweet Survival: Tales of Coping and Cooking.
Contact me @ jrrabinor@gmail.com for more details.
WRITING OUR SECRETS Friday, Sept 29, 2023 1-3 pm Hybrid: 155 W 68 st NYC & Zoom
Is it true that every great memoir, short story and novel contains a secret? The power of secrets has shaped stories from The Greeks to Liane Moriarity and Jodi Picoult. A concealed fact– whether hidden or intimately revealed–can transform a character’s life. In this workshop we will draw inspiration from literature and discuss the use of secrets and lies in storytelling. Experiment in revealing–or containing– the secrets that have shaped you!
To register chose from two options
1) If you have a work in progress and would like feedback: submit up to 10 pages (2500 words double spaced in 12-14 [point type) for line edits and written feedback: $350.
2) Show up without a submission: $250.
Co-taught with Laura Zinn Fromm, award-winning journalist and author of Sweet Survival: Tales of Coping and Cooking.
Email me at jrrabinor@gmail.com with questions!
WRITE with Me This Summer: Join a “Write-IN”
What’s a Write in?
A one hour class of meditative prompts, writing, optional sharing and discussion of craft and technique. Writing in a group is different than writing alone. It’s well documented that writing and honest sharing promote a sense of well-being. Via meditation, writing exercises, optional sharing and group discussion, you will have the opportunity to explore and develop your own creativity and resilience.Leave every class with a few new pieces of work to develop! This class is for everyone- novice and experienced writers. Nourish your inner writer!
When: Mondays: August 7 and 28
Where: Wherever you are –on Zoom!
Fee: $55. per class or $100 for the series
THE HEALING POWER OF WRITING: Fostering Mindfulness, Resilience and Creativity via Zoom
Thursday March 2 5:30-6:30 pm ET and Friday March 3 1-2 pm $25./class
From the time I was young, writing has allowed me to dig down deep and befriend my inner life. If you would like to explore the healing power of writing, join me on either of the dates above. Via meditation, writing exercises and group discussion, you will have the opportunity to explore and develop your own creativity and resilience.
To reserve, please Zelle or Venmo @Judith-Rabinor or send a check to Judy Rabinor, 250 West 90th Street, Apt 7a, NYC, NY 10024.
CRANBERRY MEADOW FARM RETREAT- July 10-13, Southern New Hampshire
Join us for three nights at Cranberry Meadows Farm in the beautiful Monadnock Mountains of southern New Hampshire. Approximately 4 hours from NYC. Private accommodations in this luxury, boutique property. Writing workshops in the mornings, write, hike, swim and relax in the afternoons, eat, drink and join our open mics at night. Carolyn, the innkeeper is a fabulous chef who worked at Chez Panisse (Berkley Ca.) and will cook our meals.
Included: Submit up to 30 pages (7500 words, double spaced in 12-14 point font) for line edits and feed back. 9 meals and 2 guided hikes.
Exclusions: Yoga, massages and alcoholic beverages.
Fee:$3600.00 Deposit of $1800. due April 15
Monday May 8, 2023
Time: 12-3 pm ET
It’s been said “Every great memoir, novel and short story contains a secret.” Secrets propel stories, and a concealed fact—whether kept hidden or ultimately revealed—can transform a character’s life. Best selling authors such as Liane Moriarty (The Husband’s Secret), and Anita Shreve (The Pilot’s Wife), know about the power of secrets, as do current writers such as CJ Hauser (The Crane Wife) and Tara Ison (At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf).
Join Laura Zinn Fromm and me as we examine the way secrets are held, revealed, uncovered and can explode a life on the page (fiction and non-fiction) or in reality. In this workshop, we will discuss the uses of secrets in storytelling and explore how to successfully write about your own secrets. Come in person (250 W 90th St, NYC) or join via Zoom. Be prepared to create and write about secrets – your own or those you imagine. Sharing optional.
SUBMIT your Writing:
Enrollment includes line edits and feedback on up to 10 pages (double spaced) of your own personal writing. Send in your work- old or new, what you are working on, have abandoned, or anything you desire.
To reserve, please Zelle or Venmo @Judith-Rabinor or send a check to Judy Rabinor, 250 West 90th Street NYC NY 10024
We are entering year 5 of our ongoing Monday night monthly workshop series consists of 5 two-hour workshops. Writing exercises, meditations, and readings will help you bring your stories to life on the page. Whether you are writing fiction or creative non-fiction, memoirs, or personal essays, our workshop will help you tap into your experiences and turn them into stories.
To reserve, please Zelle or Venmo @Judith-Rabinor or send a check to Judy Rabinor, 250 West 90th Street, Apt 7a, NYC, NY 10024.
Co-taught with Laura Zinn Fromm, award-winning journalist and author of Sweet Survival: Tales of Coping and Cooking.
Email me at jrrabinor@gmail.com with questions!
