looking for creative community? it’s right here.

I find it tough to write on my own. I’ve always had a need for creative community. I’ve been really lucky to find fellow writers and artists through graduate school, teaching communities, artist residencies, and local writers groups here in Austin where I work, write, and water my plants. All these communities have evolved, of course—creative communities are like that; people move, people change jobs and have families. Our needs change.

What do you need right now? In your writer’s life? Join the Blue Stones community and commit to ride the waves of your ever-spiraling, ever-evolving artist life in good company.

How bout my hopes for this program?

This September marks the second writerly season of membership. WOW! My motto for the coming year 2023-24 is Abundance. It’s about naming our creative desires, taking the time to dream, and seeking support from community when we don’t have everything we need on our own.

I want this membership program to mean a few things for you—1) Regular inspiration in the form of monthly meetups/missives, 2) A welcome push to keep going with your work, and 3) Tools/momentum to move beyond the monthly gathering and do the inevitable solo work that we all have to do in our writer caves. This practice will weave in elements near and dear to my heart: nature writing, Tarot, visual art and photography, music, meditation, and probably a couple references to Scandinavian fantasy crime procedurals (one or two can’t hurt).

I mentioned finding it tough to write on my own; well, we all have to do that eventually. My hope is that when you go back into the cave, you see a sparkle to the cool walls. There are gems, fossils, and lines in the rock that you didn’t notice before. There are windows in the cave. You can look up and see out. You can keep creating with confidence and clarity. You can hear the waves.