Hi writers! I apologize for being a day late, hopefully that hasn’t thrown anyone off! Yesterday was a bit of a day. But I’m here now, and you are, too, and I’m so glad for that.
If you’ve found this group through social media, you might not know that it started as a workshop, which I created and have run three times now. It started as a six-week, online workshop, then I divided it into two four-week workshops. Each week includes a talk from me, some optional reading, and a writing assignment and feedback space similar to the ones in this group. You can read more about the workshop here.
My intention was, and is, to have the workshops 3-4 times a year, but with such a niche audience (writers or aspiring writers who are autistic, ADHD, or who struggle with mental illness) my modest social media platforms were not getting the word out to enough people. I started this Substack as a way for us to continue to gather, and to grow, in the meantime.
My current plan/hope is to build this Substack group over the spring and summer, and have an online workshop in the fall. For paid subscribers to this group, there will be a discount for the workshop, and for workshop participants there will be a trial of an upgraded subscription here (likely a three month trial). I hope that will increase the value to you all of both the Substack community and the workshops, and help us to build a community of supportive, empathetic writers.
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