Whether your goals include writing for emotional expression or publishing your words, we hope you'll join us for one (or both!) of our six-week online writing groups for adult adoptees who have stories to share.

In a supportive environment designed to help adoptee voices shine, the Adoptee Voices writing groups offer:

Dedicated Writing Time
Adoption-Specific Writing Prompts
Writing Accountability & Motivation
Community with Other Adoptee-Writers
Feedback on Your Writing (optional)
Practice Sharing Your Adoptee Story
Warm-up Activities to Invite Your Unconscious to Play (Thursdays)
Publishing and Writing Advice (Tuesdays)

Meeting Structure:

Valuable "bum-in-chair" writing time: bring your work-in-progress or write something fresh using the week's adoptee-specific prompt.
Opportunities for sharing your work in a small and supportive setting, plus time for “talking shop.”
All genres, all writing levels, all adoptees 18+ welcome.

HONE YOUR CRAFT WRITING GROUP—SIX TUESDAYS, 11/1 TO 12/13 (NO MEETING 11/22)

Led by Sara Easterly (Searching for Mom), Ridghaus (Six Word Adoption Memoirs), and Alice Stephens (Famous Adopted People).

This writing group meets and writes together online, with a focus on the craft of storytelling, writing with publication in mind, and marketing to agents, publishers, and readers. Adoptees can write from weekly prompts or bring their current works-in-progress. After writing together in community, we break into small groups for sharing our writing and giving/receiving feedback.

Meetings take place over Zoom from 4-7 p.m. Pacific Time on Tuesdays, 11/1/22 through 12/13/22 (no meeting 11/22).

HONOR YOUR VOICE WRITING GROUP—SIX THURSDAYS, 11/3 TO 12/15

Led by Sara Easterly (Searching for Mom), Jennifer Dyan Ghoston (Once Upon a Time…In Adopteeland), and Kate Murphy (The Couch blog).

Meeting and writing together online, this group supports you in finding and honoring your voice as both adoptee and writer. Adoptees can write from adoption-specific prompts designed to help explore the unconscious and play with emotions through words. A small group size help to create a supportive environment and build community.

Meetings take place over Zoom from 4-7 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursdays, 11/2/22 through 12/15/22 (no meeting 11/24).

$100 to enroll in one writing group, or $190 to enroll in both writing groups.

Includes access to a private Facebook group for ongoing group dialogue. Full or half scholarships are available by application.

Adoptee Voices Writing Group: Nov-Dec 2022