Intro to Adoptee Writer’s Experience
Introduction to Adoptee Writer’s Experience (AWE) aims to give adoptees confidence in writing their adoption stories. Whether you write for yourself or desire to share your writing with the world, you’ll find inspiration through AWE.
During Introduction to Adoptee Writer’s Experience, we’ll spend time together brainstorming topic ideas and learning how to focus our writing on individual goals. We’ll cover strategies and techniques for developing a writing habit and dive into the reasons for doubts, fears, and imposter syndrome, all-too-common forms of resistance that show up in creative work. We’ll discuss publishing options and best practices for writing and sharing emotional and trauma-focused pieces.
We’ll write inside and outside of our session time with the intention of completing one goal-based piece by the end of session three.
Each session will include discussion, writing, and the sharing of our written work.
Introduction to Adoptee Writer’s Experience strives to create a safe space for adoptees to explore writing about their adoption stories. Each session takes place via Zoom, and due to the intimate nature of personal story writing and discussion, all participants must appear on video for the entire session.
Upcoming Classes:
Our 2025 classes have not been announced.
To be among the first notified when registration opens, please join our Adoptee Writer’s Experience Community. Group members receive exclusive priority registration opportunities for all programs.
All students receive email support and feedback on their writing for the duration of the class.
These sessions are only available to female-identifying adoptees.
Space is limited to ensure individual attention. When you register, you reserve a space unavailable to anyone else; therefore, we cannot offer refunds.
Let’s get writing!
More about Ann:
Ann is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and is a member and an Ambassador for the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Her bylines include Entrepreneur Magazine, Business Insider, Medium, Greenwich Time, Stamford Advocate, Norwalk Hour, Connecticut Post, Thrive Global, LinkedIn, HuffPost, The Good Men Project, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, and more.