Get Back Into Writing

In this workshop, we will look at how to pick writing back up—and stick with it. We’ll understand what makes us stop writing in the first place: the internal and external barriers that hinder our creativity, such as self-doubt, fear of failure, and time constraints. We’ll discover strategies to overcome these barriers, so we can enjoy a consistent, fulfilling writing practice.

You’ll receive new information and tools to identify your individual writing blocks and struggles, and how to work through them in actionable, specific-to-you ways. You’ll build a conversation with your writing, on your way to a creative practice you can maintain throughout your life.

You will leave the workshop with:

• Three new techniques to get back into writing.
• 10 writing prompts that actually work for creating work on your own.
• An understanding of what it means to be in conversation with your writing life.

About the Instructor: Amanda Oliver

Amanda Oliver is the author of the nonfiction book Overdue: Reckoning With the Public Library (Chicago Review Press), named a Best Book of 2022 by Esquire. Her essays have appeared in Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Times, the Rumpus, PANK, and Medium, among many others. She was the nonfiction editor of Joyland Magazine from 2018 to 2023, and she has taught creative writing for the University of California at Riverside. She holds a BA and an MLS from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and an MFA in nonfiction from the University of California at Riverside.