Sharing Our Stories:

A Coming-of-Age Storytellers’ Workshop

A Workshop for Queer and Disabled Storytellers

An 8-week space for developing your work through critical frameworks, peer witnessing, and guided editorial engagement

  • Begins the week of May 11

  • Live on Zoom (weekly)

The Problem:

Many queer and disabled storytellers don’t struggle because they lack material.

They struggle when it comes time to bring that material together.

You can know what the story is. You can have pages, direction, a clear sense of what you’re working on.

But when the available models for storytelling—especially for coming-of-age stories—don’t quite fit, structure becomes difficult to find.

At a certain point, the issue isn’t effort.

It’s that the forms you’re being asked to work within don’t quite allow for what’s there.

What the workshop is:

This workshop is built around that problem.

It combines three forms of work:

Teaching
Short, focused frameworks drawn from queer theory, disability studies, and narrative theory—used to think through your own project.

Workshopping
A structured space where your work is engaged by others across different stages of their own process.

Editorial engagement
Direct, detailed, tailored attention to your work—focused on structure, movement, and form.

On witnessing:

The kind of engagement this workshop is built around isn’t just feedback.

Most feedback is oriented toward improvement—toward making a piece clearer, tighter, or more in line with what a story is expected to do.

This starts somewhere else.

It stays with the work long enough to understand what it’s already doing, even when that isn’t immediately legible.

I think of that as witnessing.

A way of reading that doesn’t rush to fix or reshape the work, especially when it doesn’t follow a familiar arc or resolve in expected ways.

How the group works:

Participants enter at different stages:

  • developing ideas

  • drafting

  • refining work for sharing

Those differences aren’t separated out—they’re part of how the workshop works.

Insight moves between people:

  • someone drafting may recognize patterns you can’t yet see

  • someone earlier in the process may name the tension shaping the whole piece

What emerges is not just individual progress, but a shared engagement with the challenges of storytelling itself.

What you’ll leave with:

Depending on where you are in your process, you’ll leave with:

  • a clearer sense of your project’s structure

  • concrete next steps for continuing the work

  • detailed feedback on a section of your writing

  • strategies you can apply across the rest of your project

Structure:

Each session (1.5–2 hours):

  • first half: teaching + discussion

  • second half: workshop of one participant’s work

About the facilitator:

I come to this work with a background in English (PhD), history, and critical theory, and over 15 years of experience working across disciplines.

My approach is shaped by queer theory, disability studies, and literary analysis, and is focused on helping writers understand what their work is doing—and how it can take shape on its own terms.

Stay connected:

Enrollment opens April 20, 2026.

I’ll be sharing more details shortly, including how to join.