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.

thoughts from members:

I’m so looking forward to starting this new year with your Leap Out sessions…Thanks for being one of my favorite people and one of my most inspiring teachers... —Fiction Writer and Blue-Stone-For-Life

I cannot tell you how much I ADORE these sessions…something creative happens as the time clicks forward…Truly these sessions are spectacular. —Children’s Lit Writer and Blue-Stone-For-Life

How bout my hopes for this program?

This September marks the third writerly season of membership. WOW! My motto for the coming year 2024-25 is No Apologies. It’s about taking up creative space, letting our writing grow wild, and welcoming the unexpected into our stories.

Learn more in this blog post and enjoy the guided writing on this theme.

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.