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creative resources
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CREATIVE WOMEN
Ash Good: Editor, Co-founder/editor of First Matter Press, Curator of High Priestess of Poetry, Writing Workshop Facilitator. Ash works 1-on-1 with poets and authors who are developing manuscripts as an editor and coach. She co-hosts Poetry is a Pleasure of the Body, a weekly drop-in, gererative writing ritual and is the curator of Bloom, an open-mic for poets, intuitives, artists and sensitives.
Lisa Kagan: Lisa Kagan is a writer, artist, educator and personal historian. Her business, Family Heirloom Arts, is dedicated to helping individuals and families celebrate their life stories and significant life milestones through the creation of illustrated heirloom books and custom art. Lisa is also a Touchstone Retreat Facilitator.
Margaret Hartsook: Margaret Hartsook sees art making and writing as spiritual practices that can open the gates of creativity and self-expression. Margaret offers a seasonal studio on-line including poetry, art-making ideas, personal art and creative invitations. She is an Art Therapist at Legacy Good Samaritan in the Cancer Institute. Margaret is also a Touchstone Retreat Facilitator.
Birch Dwyer facilitates Poetic Medicine circles on Zoom. Her writing workshops are often inspired by the indigenous wisdoms associated with each season. Birch can be reached at ebircht@hotmail.com for more information. She has led writing workshops in a variety of settings since 2001.
Emily Trinkaus, Embodied Aquarian: Emily Trinkaus, Embodied Aquarian: Emily is a master astrologer who has practiced professionally since 1999. She offers online classes and personal readings, and hosts a podcast. She also has a background in energy medicine, writing and art and loves to support other artists in expressing their full potential. She founded Portland Women Writers in 2003, and now lives in Colorado.EmbodiedAquarianThe Embodied Aquarian Age Podcast
Gwendolyn Morgan: Gwendolyn is a Pacific Northwest poet and artist. Crow Feathers, Red Ochre, Green Tea, her first book of poems, was a winner of the Wild Earth Poetry Prize. Snowy Owls, Egrets and Unexpected Graces is a Nautilus Gold Winner in Poetry and a Foreward Indies Book of the Year Finalist in the Nature Category. Before the Sun Rises is a Nautilus Silver Winter in Poetry. Flight Feathers, Wayfarer Books, is a Nautilus Gold Winner in Lyric Prose. All her books are available through Homebound Publications. Her art is an display at various locations.
Koren Mullins: Koren is a writer, facilitator and national board certified health & wellness coach (NBC-HWC) who combines dream work, writing and/or coaching to illuminate personal symbolism, transform personal narrative and support women on their sacred path. She is available for 1-on-1 and group work. Connect with her at koren.mullins@gmail.com.
Anne Richardson: Anne established Nurture Your Journey in 2016 after working in home hospice for more than seven years. She is a board certified chaplain, certified spiritual director, certified Veriditas labyrinth facilitator, Reiki master and poet based in Portland, Oregon. Anne offers individual and group work and an e-newsletter focusing on grief.
Shayne Case: Shayne Case is a mother, healer, writer, medicine maker, and an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. In her private practice, as well as in her workshops, Shayne primarily, though not exclusively, works with medical practitioners, therapists, and other healers to support their evolving processes and to help them identify their own indigeneity and wisdom traditions.
Kate Cox: Kate is a Speech-Language Pathologist (MS, CCC-SLP) andCertified Brain Injury Specialist (CBIS). Through glia she offers personalized, whole-person coaching and therapy services to support memory, concentration, and other thinking and communication skills. This includes "executive functions" like organization, planning, and time-management. She works largely with those who have experienced concussion, traumatic brain injuries, cancer or cancer treatments, stroke, COVID-19, chronic illness, age-related cognitive change and Adult ADHD.
Jillean Johnson: Becoming Human…a community writing practice encourages powerful truth telling and poignant witnessing. Using poetry to open the door to our personal stories, we free-write from a jump-off line, word, image or memory. We summon the creative muse and invite her deep wisdom and grace to come through our pens.
Michelle McAfee: Michelle is a writer, photographer, and graphic designer based in Southern Oregon with deep roots in Alaska. She writes for the Copper River Record, a regional news publication in the Copper River Basin of Alaska. Previously, she was a staff songwriter for Bluewater Music, Sony-Tree Maypop Music, and Warner-Chappell Music, and is currently composing short stories, essays, and a memoir.
Jen Violi: Discover the book you were meant to write and find support in telling your story from the author of "Putting Makeup on Dead People".
Robyn Steely: Former Executive Director of Write Around Portland offers creative, relationship-based training, train-the-trainer, writing and curriculum, organizational development, and facilitation. Specializing in nonprofits, NGOs, social justice, and mission-based organizations.
Donnella Wood Donnella: A long-time PWW writer and facilitator, offers psychotherapy, somatic experiencing & coaching and movement education and therapy.
Sidra Quinn: Intuitive energy healer, Sidra helps create balance in the physical and energetic bodies. Intuitive energy healing can support you in dealing with trauma as well as helping you identify those habitual, but hidden patterns, that keep you from living the life you desire. Sidra also offers embodied writing circles twice a month.
CREATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative: Narrative medicine is a practice in which we recognize, absorb, metabolize, and allow ourselves to be moved by stories of illness. Through narrative practice, we recognize, respect, and nourish those affected by illness—patients and caregivers of all kind. This local collaborative offers monthly workshops, story-telling evenings and in-depth trainings to facilitate Narrative Medicine.
VoiceCatcher: VoiceCatcher is a nonprofit community that connects, inspires and empowers women writers and artists in the greater Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington area.
Write Around Portland: Transforming lives and our communities through the power of writing.
Willamette Writers: Organization located in Portland, Oregon. Offers monthly meetings, newsletter and a yearly writing conference.
Mountain Writers Series: Readings, talks, performances.
Northwest Writing Institute: The Northwest Writing Institute is part of the graduate school at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
Literary Arts: Enriching the lives of Oregonians through language and literature.
The Attic: A haven for writers providing instruction, support and inspiration.
Hedgebrook: Supports visionary women writers whose stories shape our culture by offering writing residencies, master classes and salons at their retreat facility on Whidbey Island TreeSong Nature Awareness & Retreat Center: Their nature awareness and arts programs for children, adults, and families offer a fertile ground to grow one’s sense of self, community-mindedness and environmental responsibility.
Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC): Provides individual access to tools and resources for creating independently published media and artwork. Offers a certificate program in comics/graphic novel, fiction/non-fiction, poetry and image & text.
Hand Hobbies: A Resource Guide to Writing Basics: 365 creative writing prompts and tips on brainstorming, outlining, research, grammar & spelling, revisions, editing & proofreading.
berginlearningarts.com Bergin Learning Arts, a Nonprofit School of Expressive Arts is about Exploring the Art of Learning for adults and children.
Local Health Connect: Find Mind, Body, Spirit healers, therapists and practitioners. This organization is based in Vancouver, WA.
Write Around Portland: Transforming lives and our communities through the power of writing.
Willamette Writers: Organization located in Portland, Oregon. Offers monthly meetings, newsletter and a yearly writing conference.
Mountain Writers Series: Readings, talks, performances.
Northwest Writing Institute: The Northwest Writing Institute is part of the graduate school at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
Literary Arts: Enriching the lives of Oregonians through language and literature.
The Attic: A haven for writers providing instruction, support and inspiration.
Hedgebrook: Supports visionary women writers whose stories shape our culture by offering writing residencies, master classes and salons at their retreat facility on Whidbey Island TreeSong Nature Awareness & Retreat Center: Their nature awareness and arts programs for children, adults, and families offer a fertile ground to grow one’s sense of self, community-mindedness and environmental responsibility.
Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC): Provides individual access to tools and resources for creating independently published media and artwork. Offers a certificate program in comics/graphic novel, fiction/non-fiction, poetry and image & text.
Hand Hobbies: A Resource Guide to Writing Basics: 365 creative writing prompts and tips on brainstorming, outlining, research, grammar & spelling, revisions, editing & proofreading.
berginlearningarts.com Bergin Learning Arts, a Nonprofit School of Expressive Arts is about Exploring the Art of Learning for adults and children.
Local Health Connect: Find Mind, Body, Spirit healers, therapists and practitioners. This organization is based in Vancouver, WA.