Rediscovering Your Story
with Steve Edwards
MONDAY, MAY 5TH, 2025
9:00 – 11:00AM PT
A story is a negotiation between what might have been, what is, and what still could be. You tell the story of who you are with your every breath. You become the stories you tell
– Steve Edwards
This class with essayist, Steve Edwards, is about rediscovering-and reimagining-the stories we have to tell. Through a series of writing prompts designed to stoke our memories and remind us of who we are, we’ll tap back into the basics of storytelling while also getting reacquainted with why telling our particular stories matter.
A few things you’ll come away with:
✨New and inventive approaches to telling nonfiction, personal stories.
✨Inspiration for getting started and sticking with it.
✨The confidence to make mistakes and learn from them.
✨A sense of how to pair personal discoveries with practice, including:
How to incorporatesensory language, build forward momentum in a narrative, and utilize the modes of scene and summary to give a piece shape.
✨A sense of what makes our stories matter.
You don’t need to be a seasoned writer to join us, but someone who is interested in telling personal stories and is ready for a guide
Here at 27 Powers, we love bringing a variety of published writers into our community to teach. More and more, what we’re looking for isn’t just someone who can teach something, but someone who cares about students, who loves teaching and is committed to leaving students with something solid they can work with. Steve is all of these things and more. We are thrilled to have him with us, and hope you can join us.
live online
REDISCOVERING YOUR STORY
WITH STEVE EDWARDS
MONDAY, MAY 5TH, 2025
9:00 – 11:00AM PT
Can’t make it live? Replay Included.
You’ll get access to the entire session.
Art Writing Family members, enter your discount code to save $10!
Not sure what your code is? Check your email invitation or the member site.
about steve
Steve Edwards is author of the memoir BREAKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY, the story of his seven months as caretaker of a 95-acre backcountry homestead along federally protected Wild and Scenic Rogue River in Oregon.
His essays and stories have appeared in Orion Magazine, The Sun Magazine, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.
His new book of essays is coming out from University of Nebraska Press in the Fall of 2026.
He lives outside Boston with his wife and son.
To find out more about Steve and read his work:
https://edwardsstevenc.wixsite.com/steveedwards
https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/26781-a-thousand-cups-of-coffee
live online
REDISCOVERING YOUR STORY
WITH STEVE EDWARDS
MONDAY, MAY 5TH, 2025
9:00 – 11:00AM PT
Can’t make it live? Replay Included.
You’ll get access to the entire session.
Art Writing Family members, enter your discount code to save $10!
Not sure what your code is? Check your email invitation or the member site.
I’M EXCITED TO BE PARTNERING WITH CHAPTER 510, A NONPROFIT GROUP IN OAKLAND SERVING BLACK, BROWN, AND QUEER KIDS, AGES 7-18.
Chapter 510 is a writing, bookmaking & publishing center that wants every young person in Oakland to write with confidence and joy. Chapter 510 believes that writing is an act of liberation, and that young people transform themselves and their communities when they write and get published, succeeding in work, school, and life.
A portion of the proceeds from this event will go to supporting their free creative writing programs for black, brown, and queer youth.
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