A two-hour per week respite with no phones, laptops or other electronic distractions, surrounded by a mix of fabulously interesting women including songwriters, movers and shakers and professionals — sign me up!

Dean Lofton’s Writing Your Life as a Woman is a four-week course that meets once a week.  The next set of classes runs October 6 -27.  This class is for women writers and non-writers alike looking for a place to release their inner creative and express themselves on paper.  Dean Lofton has been teaching writing workshops for 13 years.  She has a world of literary knowledge under her belt as she has written for dozens of publications and had her own column in skirt!, a regional woman’s magazine.

I really didn’t know what to expect when I arrived to class. There was an eclectic group of about a dozen or so women with an age range from early 20s to late 60s or possibly early 70s, from all walks of life.  Good old fashioned pen and paper where the mediums used and Lofton guided the class to tell their stories through a series of questions.  Lofton provides an environment that is encouraging, creative and welcoming. Pens hit the paper and each student interpreted the questions differently.  Students were encouraged to share their work with the class, but are not required to do so.  I left class that day feeling liberated and expressed.  I am woman, hear me roar, it’s fabulous!

For more information on this four-week course, click here.