What have you been longing to write about? The stuff of life, of course! Face it, we’ve all accumulated enough memories, insights, emotional and literal baggage to write about for the rest of our lives! What’s missing is structured time, gentle guidance, and the support of a creative community. Emandal ArtStays has all that, plus beauty, serenity, nourishing organic meals, and magic!

In this five-day workshop, we’ll employ the techniques of short form memoir to create brief, focused pieces of writing that capture specific moments or experiences in vivid detail. By writing honestly about stuff we’ve lost, found, bought, borrowed, stolen, or received as gifts, we’ll be telling the stories of our lives.

 Susan Bono is a California-born teacher, freelance editor, and short-form memoirist who has facilitated writing workshops since 1993. Her work has appeared online, on stage, in anthologies, newspapers, and on the radio. From 1995-2015, she edited and published a small press magazine called Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Narrative in print and online. She was on the board of the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference for more than a decade and was editor-in-chief of their journal, the Noyo River Review, for eight years. Susan is the author of What Have We Here: Essays about Keeping House and Finding Home.