Meet THE writer WITHIN
Register now for
Writing Women
An 8-week online course in Meditative Creative Writing beginning October 2.
This course will combine guided meditations, writing prompts, curated reading, and live instruction
designed to enliven your writing process and open new channels to personal, ancestral & archetypal insight.
You will be supportively guided to write what only you can write.
The course is suitable for beginning or advanced writers working in any genre. Can be taken live online or asynchronously.
See the curriculum here.
“Trace,” a collage by Rachel Jamison Webster
An 8-week online course designed to open channels to personal, ancestral, and archetypal wisdom. Combining meditation and creative writing prompts, curated readings, and instruction. Taught by award-winning author and instructor, Rachel Jamison Webster. Thursdays, beginning October 2. Register before September 8 for a reduced welcome rate.
About your instructor
Rachel Jamison Webster is an award-winning author and professor of creative writing. She has taught at Northwestern University for 20 years, and has published five books and dozens of essays, poems, and articles. Her book of ancestral nonfiction Benjamin Banneker and Us was named a “Best Book of 2023” by The New Yorker and was an “Editor’s Pick” by The New York Times. Rachel’s book of poetry, Mary is a River, was written in the voice of Mary Magdalene and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her book The Sea Came Up & Drowned combines her collages and “mined” erasure poems to meditate on our extractive relationship to the earth. It has been turned into a choral symphony that will be performed by Donald Nally’s ensemble The Crossing in cities throughout the U.S. and globally in 2026.
Rachel has also practiced meditation, ancestral healing, and energy healing for more than 20 years. She combines these practices in her teaching. Read more about Rachel and her process here.
“Professor Rachel Webster is one of the most generous, intuitive, and visionary writing teachers I’ve ever known. Her workshops create space not just for craft, but for transformation—for writing that is both brave and deeply human. She teaches with rigor and tenderness, grit and grace, guiding each writer toward the truth only they can tell. If you have the chance to learn from Rachel, take it. Your writing—and your person—will be better for it.
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“If you are a woman writer on the fence as to whether to enroll in Rachel Jamison Webster’s “Writing Women” Course, let me be the nudge that lands you gently in one of the most inspiring and supportive writing workshops you will ever take.
My work with Rachel was both productive and profound, opening channels to new insights into the women in my family, including myself, and allowing me to complete a multi-year project which centers 14 generations of my foremothers. Whatever your creative project, Rachel’s combination of meditation, writing prompts, example texts and encouragement will help you find what you need.”
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1:1 Guidance
Schedule one-on-one meetings for creative coaching, editorial guidance, and manuscript development.