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Morning Seeding & Tending
$25.00
Morning Seeding & Tending is your chance to free-write, continue a project, get your word count in, be a part of a literary community on your own terms. This is your time for writing, and we are honoring it. The Zoom room is open Monday-Friday 10am-11:05 am. $25 per month, or $20 if you become a regular subscriber. To do so, go here or click the blue icon below.
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One-on-One Coaching and Editing with Elaine Apthorp
Elaine Apthorp is a truly remarkable teacher, writer, reader and mentor. She offers heartful coaching, developmental editing and copyediting. Working closely with the writer and the writing, her mission is to comprehend, appreciate, and nurture the project and the creative soul who is choosing to engage in it; help a comrade writer discover and achieve their intentions on the page; find out what the writer means to do and offer suggestions about choices one might make that could further those objectives.

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One-on-One Coaching with Nerissa Nields
Nerissa works with writers at every stage of the creative process, from brainstorming ideas, to helping the writer develop a sustainable practice, to coaching writers around emotional blocks, to making suggestions for publication and placement of individual projects. She has written in many genres, including non-fiction, poetry, plays, songwriting, blogging, essays, short stories, nonfiction books and novels. She can help with outlining, story arc, structure and the messy middle. Along the way, she will suggest craft exercises and recommend books and articles.Read more
Prepare to Publish
$375.00 Prepare to Publish is a generative writing group with a little more focused critique than other Writing It Up in the Garden workshops. This group is for experienced writers. To apply, please send a published piece, and/or a writing sample and a letter of introduction to Nerissand@gmail.com. January 7-March 25, 2025Add to cart
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September Back-To-School Writing Retreat, Pro-Rated by Day
Original price was: $110.00.Current price is: $100.00.
- September 16-21 (Tuesday-Sunday). Choose any number of days, and please be sure to indicate which days you plan to attend at checkout. The cost is $110 per day. If you want to come for the full six days, go here.
- Northampton, MA
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September Back-to-School Writing Retreat, Six Days 2025
$600.00
- September 16-21 2025 (Tuesday-Sunday). Choose any number of days, and please be sure to indicate which days you plan to attend at checkout. The cost is $110 per day. If you want to come for the full six days, go here.
- Northampton, MA and Zoom
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Tuesday Community Writes
$25.00 On Tuesday evenings, from 6-7:30pm Eastern time, Little Blue Studio as well as the Writing It Up in the Garden Zoom room, will be open for all members of Nerissa's writing groups and Substack subscribers. Format: 6pm prompt, followed by silent writing. At 7pm, a short reading by members of Morning Seeding & Tending. To participate, join Morning Seeding & Tending for one month or become a paid subscriber to Nerissa's Substack. Once you register, you will be sent directions to Little Blue and the Zoom link.Add to cart
Writers Workshop: Fiction
$360.00 Thursdays 12:30-2:30pm ET, Nerissa runs workshops tailored to fiction writers. Novelists, short-story writers, YA, Middle-Grade, Children's, flash, anything goes! Starts March 27 and runs to June 10, 2025.Add to cart
Writing It Up in the Garden Gift Certificate
$50.00 Gift Certificate for varying amounts.Add to cart