WRITESHARE

✨ Co-Founder Spotlight ✨

Meet (or say hello again to!) Lindsey DeLoach Jones, co-founder of Writeshare!

holds a BA and MA in English and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction. She has taught creative writing at Clemson University and the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities, and she has served as Editor of Emrys Journal and Edible Upcountry.

She currently teaches writing online and in-person via Writeshare (hey, that’s us!), and has a successful Substack called Between Two Things.

On her Substack, Lindsey recently introduced a new section called UNmachining Motherhood where she explores how modern productivity culture has shaped parenting—and how to maintain one’s humanity when the whole world wants you to be a robot. Highly recommend!
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P.s. Lindsey is now offering 1:1 consultations through Writeshare! Visit our website for more info — writeshare.org

Get a glimpse into our May writing retreat. ✨

Registrations are now open! Visit writeshare.org/retreats

🌼 May has arrived, and so has our next writing retreat!

Join us at the Writeshare Studio in Greenville, SC, on Saturday, May 16th, for a full day of creative writing.

Register on our website at writeshare.org — spots are limited.

We are thrilled to share that author Jessica Handler will be our visiting instructor for this year’s Writeshare Summer Camp! 🌟

is the acclaimed author of award-winning novels and celebrated nonfiction, with features on NPR, in Tin House, Electric Literature, The Bitter Southerner, The Washington Post, and elsewhere.

About her work, Jessica says, “I am compelled by a single theme in my fiction and nonfiction: women and girls bearing more responsibility than they believe they can carry, and the ways they — we — learn to thrive.”

Swipe to check out her books!

Summer Camp happens on July 18, 2026 in Greenville, SC. We’ll have various writing panels and classes in the morning, and author Jessica Handler will teach the entire afternoon!

We have less than 20 seats available — reserve your seat if you haven’t already. ✏️

Writeshare’s annual Summer Camp is back!

☀️ Saturday, July 18 ☀️

This camp is for indoorsy grown-ups only. No bunk beds, no mess hall, and definitely no hiking.

We’ll have various panels and classes in the morning, and author Jessica Handler will teach the whole afternoon. Stick around after camp for our first-ever BLOCK PARTY!

The full schedule is coming soon, but don’t wait to register—we’ve only got room for 25 campers!

Tickets for the post-camp block party are available now, too.

Head over to our website for details!

writeshare.org/summercamp 🏕️

✏️ Our final Craft Book Club meeting is tonight!

We’re looking forward to discussing A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders with .

About the book 👉 For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.

Have you read this one yet?

Feeling stuck in your current draft or project? We’ve got you—rather, these creatives have got you. 😎

What’s one tool you use to get the creative juices flowing? 👇

You’re cordially invited! ✉️

On April 23 from 6-7pm, join us at the Writeshare Studio for the final meeting of our Spring Writing Intensive!

We’ll have an open mic, drinks + snacks, and answers to all of your burning questions on our next semester of intensives. Anyone is welcome to join.

Let us know if you’re coming! 👇

HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND! 👇

Join Nicole Seitz for an illuminating class: Journalism as Training for Creative Writing ✨

The greatest stories and ideas in fiction, poetry and creative writing are crafted with the most specific details that transport us into the page.

This 90-minute class taught by novelist Nicole Seitz will teach you how journalism is the perfect preparation for creative writing.

Practicing the who, what, when, why and how of journalism is just the beginning; it’s the art of observation and objectivity that can elevate your writing.

WHEN: April 11 from 2-3:30pm
WHERE: Writeshare Studio
REGISTER on our website at writeshare.org

✨Local Author Spotlight ✨

Michelle O’Neil has been a member of our Writeshare community for a while now! She is the author of the novel Dog Park, and the memoir Daughter of the Drunk at the Bar.
 
She has a background as a freelance writer in Washington DC and her work has been featured in Literary Mama, Brain Child, Age of Autism, The Bark!, Cool Cleveland, and other publications.

🐾 About her latest book, Dog Park:
A troubled teen with an unbearable father, and a woman grieving the loss of her son encounter an eclectic cast of characters at a local dog park.

📕 Michelle’s memoir, Daughter of the Drunk at the Bar is the story of a girl growing up in the eighties under the oppression of her father’s alcoholism.

In addition to writing, Michelle is a registered nurse. She is also a yoga instructor at a large retirement community. She lives in South Carolina with her family including two sweet dogs and two gorgeous cats.

Learn more about Michelle on her website ✏️ www.michelleoneilauthor.com