Events

  • Morning Seeding & Tending

    Morning Seeding & Tending

    $10.00

    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

    One-on-One Coaching and Editing with Elaine Apthorp

    Elaine ApthorpĀ is a truly remarkable teacher, writer, readerĀ 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

    One-on-One Coaching with Nerissa Nields

    $150.00
    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.Add to cart
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    Prepare to Publish

    $400.00
    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.  Add to cart
  • Writers Workshop: Fiction

    Writers Workshop: Fiction

    $375.00
    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 September 25 and runs to December 11, 2025.Add to cart
  • Writing It Up in the Garden Gift Certificate

    Writing It Up in the Garden Gift Certificate

    $50.00
    Gift Certificate for varying amounts.Add to cart
  • Wednesday Writing Workshops

    Wednesday Writing Workshops

    $375.00
    • Regular, 10-week Courses
    • Generative writing as well as Revision
    • Autumn late September-early December
    • Northampton, MA (in person) and on Zoom
    • Please indicate in your payment which group you'd like to join.
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  • The Welcome Table Chorus

    The Welcome Table Chorus

    $175.00
    • Tuesdays Jan. 6 to March 31 (10 meetings total, with flex room for snowstorms/school vacations)
    • $175
    • Northampton, MA
    • To add additional family members, go here.
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  • Weeding & Pruning

    Weeding & Pruning

    $400.00
    Weeding & Pruning is a manuscript group composed of no more than five Writing It Up in the Garden writers led by the brilliant and kind Elaine Apthorp who has a built-in punctuation genius and an infectious joy for the written word.Add to cart