Writing to Right the World

Why spend time writing memoir when the world's on fire? I give some reasons in this guest post for Birth Your Truest Story. Hope to see you at my upcoming purposeful memoir series, starting February 1!

“Things are urgent—it’s time to slow down.” Why spend time writing memoir when it seems like the world is on fire? (Purposeful Memoir Workshop starts Feb. 1.)

In my latest Writing to Right the World Substack post, I imagine what could be if we heeded the Haudenosaunee prayer to “gather our minds as one mind” and align with the planetary and cosmic communities of which we are a part.

The potential is startling! And it’s within our reach--it just takes intention and dedication. In the post I share my own creative ways of reaching for alignment. What are yours?

Link in the comments.

The New Moon is upon us, and I am hosting a free live online New Moon Writing Circle on Thursday, Nov. 20 at 7 pm Eastern, with the theme of GIFTS and GRATITUDE.

Stop by for some nourishing poetry and thought-provoking writing prompts to explore in good company as we honor this dark moment in the lunar cycle.

RSVP link in the comments. Photo by yours truly--the auroras in Nova Scotia, August 2024.

Join me on October 31 from 4:30 - 5:30 Eastern for a Day of the Dead writing circle to honor our ancestors, whether DNA or chosen lineages. Link in the comments to RSVP for this free, live online event.

If you are an author who is writing to make the world better, consider Green Fire Press as your publisher! Now taking submissions for 2026. Here are some of our 2025 titles.

The mysterious alabaster windows of the Duomo di Orvieto provided the inspiration for this essay on how we can become more discerning in making good creative use of our human potential for being a meeting place of inner & outer light. As Anthony Doerr says, we need to welcome in a broader spectrum of possibility, “all the light we cannot see.”

Link in the comments. Photo by Jennifer Browdy:

How to strengthen ourselves creatively for dark times. Link in the comments.

Looking forward to an hour of reflective writing in honor of the Fall Equinox New Moon, TONIGHT at 7 pm Eastern, live online. Our Libra theme is BALANCE. Come join us!

RSVP link in the comments. Free!
Balance photo by yours truly.

Oh we so need to rest our jangling nerves in the quiet darkness of the New Moon! Join me Sunday, 9/21 at 7 pm Eastern--the Equinox with a solar eclipse--to honor the darkest moment in the lunar cycle, when everything is pure potential.

Take an hour for reflective writing in good company--free, live online. Our theme will be BALANCE.

RSVP here:

New Moon, New Self, New Earth: Free Online Moon Circle - Jennifer Browdy Settle in for an hour of inquiry and reflection in good company, shining our lights together in the darkest moment of the month.

Some thoughts on visibility, fear and holding safe space as I embark on another school year. And homage--again--to the great Audre Lorde.

Transforming Silence into Language and Action Becoming a shepherd of truths as I return again to the wisdom of Audre Lorde

We CAN transmute darkness to Light--using what Francis Weller calls "soul medicine": community, imagination, and the resilience we've inherited from our ancestors, on whose shoulders we stand now.

In this post I share some of the tools and images that I use to tend to my own spirit when things seem too dark.

As Joyce White Vance likes to say, we're in this together! Let me know what soul medicine works for you.

Link in the comments.

Some soul medicine for aching hearts.

Sweet Soul Medicine for a Dark Time Don’t give up! Shine your light!