Southern Momentum Creative Writing Workshop for Organizations, Work Place Wellness, and Community Groups.
Curated workshops Designed to foster Wellness, Somatic Ease, creativity, and Community.
We are a Southern-rooted literary ecosystem, passionate about making writing an essential and accessible part of everyday wellness.
We believe writing belongs in more places than classrooms, Substack, and private journals. Writing belongs anywhere people gather to work, heal, lead, create, remember, reconnect, or make sense of what doesn’t.
To that end, we developed the Writing Momentum Workshop Matrix™ to bring world class writing programs to organizations, workplace wellness programs, retreats, community groups, and wellness centers as easy as one, two, three.
Step One: Choose the Theme
Select the purpose and desired outcome for the workshop. The theme shapes the prompts, tone, activity blocks, and writing focus. These themes are broad enough to fit a variety of purposes and specific enough to meet niche programming and requests.
Step Two: Choose the Package
Each package consists of fixed duration, participant capacity (per the AWA Method Standards), included supports, and built-in deliverables. Our packages are designed to fit inside an existing event, retreat, workplace wellness program, or community gathering or function as a standalone feature.
Step Three: Choose the Writing Focus Blocks
Select the curated writing focuses that shapes the construction of the workshop. Each focus block provides clear experiences, ranging from reflective memory integration exercises to whole crown sonnets.
Some workshops are built directly from the Writing Momentum Workshop Matrix™, but most are customized during the Community Collaboration Call™.
If your organization or business see a place where a curated writing workshop can add to or help build community, we’d love to chat. Drop us a line.
The first step in building your curated writing workshop experience starts with choosing a them that aligns with your purpose and desired outcome.
Step One: Workshop Theme Selection
Choose a theme by clicking on one of the cards. Once your theme is chosen, you will be move on to step three: Workshop Package Selection.
Abundance Is Human Connection
For organizations, wellness spaces, retreats, and community groups seeking a writing experience rooted in connection, shared presence, and belonging. This theme helps participants slow down, write together, and experience human connection beyond individual wellness or solo reflection.
There Is Nothing to Fear
For organizations and groups navigating change, uncertainty, emotional honesty, or meaningful transition. This theme uses writing to help participants meet fear, name what it protects, and choose a clearer relationship with courage, communication, and change.
You Are Your Greatest Investment
For partners centering rest, self-regard, creative care, personal attention, and everyday wellness. This theme uses guided writing to help participants name what deserves care, support, pleasure, rest, and meaningful investment.
It’s Not What You Say…
For partners centering clear, open expression, release, and transformation in workplace communication. This theme uses writing to help participants discover the power of using authentic voice.
I Am We
For organizations, teams, and community groups connecting personal story with collective purpose, contribution, belonging, and shared meaning. This theme uses writing to help participants explore identity, community care, and the relationship between individual voice and collective wellness.
We Are Everything We Desire
For retreats, wellness programs, creative communities, and workplace visioning spaces exploring imagination and play to find creative clarity. This theme uses speculative writing to encourage participants to connect with the innocent wonder of what if.
Need Help Making a Decision or need more customization…
Workshops are available online or in person. Pricing depends on group size, organization type, delivery method, and customization needs.
Schedule a Community Collaboration Call™ to talk through how creative writing can support your community, workplace, retreat, or wellness space. We are especially interested in collaborating with BIPOC women-owned, and centered as well as LGBTQIA+ organizations.
Current Workshops open for registration
Just Desserts is an in-person weekly, women-only writing circle created for those who work in service to others —specifically, women and gender expansive persons working in education, nursing, and as first responders.
Join us in a private courtyard located in Midtown Columbia, SC from 7:30–9:30 PM.
This community of professional women offers a steady place to decompress, process, and release what comes home with us when we leave the classrooms, hospitals, and emergencies.
Just Desserts is led by a former educator with over 25 years of experience teaching, guiding, and facilitating every skill level of writer. As South Carolina’s only AWA certified creative workshop facilitator, this workshop is a safe space where participants are encouraged to be honest, open, and free.
AWA workshops are affirmation only, somatic-informed, prompt-driven creative writing spaces.
No Writing Experience Necessary
Participants are invited to bring their favorite handheld dessert bites and BYOB for an evening that is both grounding and restorative.
This Workshop is In-Person Only! Must live Columbia,SC
“Just know that everyone’s writing is terrible. Until it’s not. No one’s stuff is right immediately. You gotta work it. Refine it. Shape it. Spend time with it. It’s a relationship. Between you and what comes from you. Not easy. Gonna be terrible before it’s not. And that’s okay.” ~ Ava DuVernay
Southern Momentum Creative Writing Workshops™ offers writing workshops based on the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) Method, founded by Pat Schneider. This method uses six principles to establish safe, affirming, process-focused writing workshops where participants are encouraged to write openly and without fear of judgement, retribution, or critique.
“Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) has trained over 1,000 facilitators worldwide. While the vast majority are concentrated in the US and Canada, the global network includes certified leaders in countries ranging from Mexico and Turkey to Singapore and the Netherlands.” Amherst Writers & Artist.
from Thursday, August 06 to September 20, 2026. 7:00-9:00 PM EST.
What Our Mothers Didn't Teach Us: Desire, Sex, and the Erotic is a virtual generative writing workshop that blends the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) Method with somatic practices to reframe a woman’s right to experience Desire, Sex, and the Erotic without shame, guilt, or censure.
This 8-Week writing workshop series is rooted in safety, confidentiality, and affirmation. Participants are guided to explore their authentic identities through curated writing prompts inspired by womanist and sex positive philosophy, alongside original poetry and visual imagery.
During this eight week workshop, women engage in writing exercises that honor rage, stillness, and self-reinvention, all while challenging societal narratives around if and how women have the right to experience and expect pleasure.
Somatic practices—including grounding breath work, smile yoga and guided meditation—support embodiment and emotional release throughout each 2-hour session.
By the close, participants will have a new language, image, and perspective for reconnecting with desire, sex, and the erotic as source of power and creativity. As an act of reclamation and becoming.
The workshop series is designed for women and femmes in their reclamation era seeking community, creativity, and embodied self-expression.
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