I took a creative writing class called Spark Your Creativity, A Journey into Deep Imagination, from Darlene Frank this past January. Our group of adventuresome writers met over three days. We wrote, shared, and ultimately, with Darlene’s help, finished stories for publication in her Spirited Voices zine.

Darlene used her own stories as writing prompts. It was a great time to let go and see where the prompts led. I found myself deep in my family history from one of her prompts. I submitted and worked with Darlene on, What My Bones Know. It’s the last story in the zine. Darlene referred to my story as the benediction for the publication.

She’s teaching the class again this January. Read about it here. It’s fun, it’s generative, it’s on zoom.