Author Cauldron
Write Creatively, Grow Consistently
Build your writing practice in community
Author Cauldron is a holistic writer’s workshop designed to support you in growing as a writer and creating consistently. In the Cauldron, you will both develop your craft skills and build the resilience, flexibility and self-compassion necessary for long-term creative commitment.
The Deets
An ongoing, subscription-based workshop for fiction and nonfiction writers
3-8 members at any given time, your monthly payment of $133 holds your spot
Meets every other Friday on Zoom 3-4:30pm ET
You’ll get workshopped every ~3 months
Meetings consist of craft talks and participant workshops
On the day you’re workshopped, it’s your time to talk about your creative goals, this season in your life, and your craft questions and struggles. The group is here to support you in what you want to focus on.
Between your workshops, you’re welcome to ask for feedback outside of our meeting times on what you’re working on: i.e., you can ask any workshop member who has the space to read your piece and answer craft questions or reflect back their impression of it. Participants are responsible for negotiating their own capacity and focus for these conversations together.
We read 1-2 submissions for every session. Participants submit their work the meeting prior to when they are to be workshopped. Submissions can range from 4 to 30 pages, and the kinds of feedback received will vary accordingly (shorter: more detailed, feedback on specifics; longer: broader, big-picture).
Your Workshop Leader
Isabel O’Hara Walsh (she / they) has led writers workshops and 1-1 writing coaching for six years, and uses an antiracist workshop structure based on the work of Liz Lerman and Felicia Rose Chavez
They are a fiction writer with an MFA from NC State University
They are working on their second novel
Their writing can be found in The Metaworker and Pastel Pastoral
Isabel writes spooky literary fiction that brings buried stories to light
