A call to defend your creative life like it matters.
In a world unraveling, your words are medicine and resistance. This 2-hour workshop will help you safeguard your creative practice. You’ll leave with renewed fire, deep permission, and a sacred vow to protect your art like our survival depends on it.
Why I'm offering Magic & Muscle!
(And please ignore my bloodshot eyes and crackly voice -- allergies!)
What You'll Get in this
Free 2-Hour Virtual Workshop:
Permission
Claim the permission that's already yours to create, experiment, make boundaries, and take up more space as an artist. Leave behind old stories about what's possible.
Commitment
Keeping the promises we make to ourselves is a key part of healing. In this workshop, you'll gather practical tools and rituals that will help you build a sustainable creative practice that will support you for the longterm.
Community
Artists have always made their work during hard and frightening times. This challenge is not new. Connect with other writers and artists and find support, accountability, and belonging. Step into your place in history.
Inspiration
It's time to refill your creative well with new prompts and visioning exercises. Let yourself be surprised. Let yourself remember.
Magic
What if your work is already held and supported -- by the stars, your ancestors, and future generations? In this workshop we’ll claim writing and creating as sacred tasks with the power to change the world.
Muscle
Your art deserves your protection. Together we’ll build the discipline, resilience, and practical supports that help you keep creating even when the world feels heavy -- muscle that holds your creativity steady and helps it grow.
Meet Sarah Sentilles
Sarah Sentilles is the author of five books, including Draw Your Weapons, which won a PEN-America Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her most recent book, Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours, was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Idaho Book of the Year. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Oprah Magazine, Los Angeles Times, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She’s had residencies at Hedgebrook and Yaddo. She earned a bachelor's degree at Yale and master's and doctoral degrees at Harvard. She taught at universities for a decade and is the co-founder of the Alliance of Idaho, which works to protect the human rights of immigrants.
She is represented by Molly Friedrich at The Friedrich Agency.
WORKSHOP DETAILS &
WHAT TO BRING:
WHEN: Saturday, November 15, 2025 from 2-4 pm PST (United States)/ Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 9 - 11 am AEDT (Australia) **Please adjust for your timezone!**
WHERE: On Zoom (and it will be recorded if you can't attend the live session)
BRING: Something to write with/on (paper/pencil/computer -- whatever works for your body). You'll receive a workshop prep document. Come ready to write!
During the 2-HOUR live virtual workshop, you will:
- Discover why your creative life needs both magic and muscle through a short, inspiring talk from Sarah
- Dive into powerful generative writing prompts designed to unlock courage, clarity, and new ideas
- Write your own permission slip—a bold declaration of what you want to create and claim
- Compose a thank-you letter from your future self—a visioning exercise that makes your goals real
- Build your 2026 creative survival kit so you can protect and nourish your art no matter what comes next
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Get a special coupon to enroll in 2026 workshops. Each workshop has limited seats
This workshop is for everyone.
- Writers and artists of all levels ready to deepen their practice
- Visual artists, poets, essayists, dreamers, journalers -- anyone who suspects art might help us find our way through
- People overwhelmed by politics or heartbreak who need a place to metabolize it on the page
- News junkies and doomscrollers who suspect their vigilance isn't changing the world but long to act and create in meaningful ways
- Anyone craving community, courage, and tools to keep creating even when things feel uncertain and scary
- Everyone needing a reminder that making art is one of the most urgent and world-repairing things we can do