Writing WOMEN

an 8-week online course

DESIGNED to DEEPEN your writing & open channels

To personal, ancestral & archetypal Wisdom

$440

Includes

  • Eight 80-minute live classes led by Rachel Jamison Webster. Each class includes a guided meditation, writing prompts, and a lesson.

  • Optional breakout rooms after class for sharing.

  • Curated readings and prompts between classes to inspire learning.

  • Online forum for sharing writing and building community.

  • Classes are recorded and content is yours to keep.

This course will be an inspiring

and culturally informed journey for anyone who wants to write about the embodied and socialized experiences of being a woman—both in our own time and in history. Our focus will be on women’s experiences and insights now, in our ancestral lines, and in our cultural and archetypal programming. As we write through these lenses, we will articulate our truths, we will name and clear female pain, and we will tap into wellsprings of strength. Each class session will combine guided meditations with writing prompts that will help you to generate new work, clarify your existing projects, and access the specific healing insights that only writing can provide. Weekly lessons will be accompanied by optional assignments and curated readings that will put your work into conversation with women writers across time and cultures. All class sessions will be recorded, and the content will be available after the course closes, so you can attend with the group or move at your own pace. A sharing space will allow you to give and receive encouragement on works in progress, but sharing will be optional. The class will meet on Thursdays for 80 minutes, with an optional breakout room after each session for additional sharing. All women are welcome in this class, including, of course, queer women, trans folks, and women who feel the constrictions of being labeled with a single gender.

I’m Your Instructor, Rachel Jamison Webster

I have published five books, including Mary is a River, a finalist for the National Poetry Series written in the voice of Mary Magdalene, and Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family. This book of ancestral nonfiction was chosen as a Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker, and an Editor’s Pick by The New York Times. I am currently finishing a book about my female ancestors and the creative processes specific to women. I have taught creative writing at Northwestern University for 20 years and have developed writing workshops through Ancestral Medicine, the Urban League, After School Matters, the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and Gallery 37. I love to inspire people to write the work that only they can write. My students have gone on to publish successful books, and to fulfill themselves with creative careers. I have also meditated for more than 20+ years, with a special focus on clairvoyance, clairaudience, divination, and ancestral healing. These practices of writing and meditation combine in my teaching. I love to share my methods for fulfilling our creative potential.

Introducing . . . the PhOEBE Awards

Two full scholarships will be available to women who are in the dual role of working and caregiving. This scholarship is in honor of my maternal grandmother, Phoebe Jamison Murphy, who raised four children as a single mother, two of whom had serious special needs. Phoebe had creative and intellectual dreams that were never realized because she had to support her family and serve as an advocate and caregiver for her children.

It will be my honor to provide these scholarships to two of the many deserving women who are tirelessly taking care of others. My hope is that this will allow winners to give themselves some well-deserved space for creative writing and spiritual contemplation.

To nominate yourself or someone you know for this scholarship, please send:

  1. A description of your/ her caregiving situation. You could be a primary caregiver for parents, a partner, or children, especially those with special needs.

  2. A sentence or two about what you/ she hopes to gain from this class.

  3. You can also send an optional 1-4 page example of creative writing.

    Winners will be announced on our website and socials (or kept anonymous if they prefer.)

An 8-week online course for women to free your writing and unlock new channels of insight.

Thursdays, beginning October 2.

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Course FAQ

  • This course will meet you where you are and will work for either advanced or beginning writers. Our meditations and freewrites are designed for any level, and my hope is that they will connect you to the stories, essays, and poems that only you can write. The establishment of a meditative writing practice will invite more intuition, awareness, and guidance into your work, regardless of experience-level or genre. If you are an advanced writer working on a specific project, you could use these exercises to deepen your characters, or access more authenticity in your voice. If you are a beginner, you could use this course to commit to your process and build self-trust as a writer. Regardless, you will generate new work that will move you and surprise you.

  • Life is busy! I understand. All classes are held live on Zoom, once a week, but they will also be recorded, so you can watch the recordings on your own time. Course content will remain available to you so you can return to readings and writing prompts long after the course closes.

  • We will not be workshopping our writing in this class, but will use our time together to look inward and generate new work. Optional breakout rooms after every class will allow participants to read their work aloud. And the course will include an online “salon” where participants can post works-in-progress for sharing, conversation and support.

  • All women are welcome in this class, including queer women, trans people, and anyone who feels the constriction of being in a single gender. This particular curriculum is focused on the embodied and socialized experiences of being a woman, and it will speak to some of the present and historical challenges of being a woman writer. Participants will be examining experiences from their own lives, in the lives of their female ancestors, and in feminine archetypes. We will be able to deepen our work together through this focus, even as we know that being a woman is an endlessly varied experience. Participants will have the full range of expression in their creative writing and will be supported in writing their truths.

  • If you feel the class is not a fit for you, you can get a full refund if you withdraw by October 12.