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Get $2,000+ worth of additional memoir-writing resources plus ongoing access to all 30+ presentations even after the workshop series ends.

If you’re serious about writing your real, raw stories with craft, honesty and aliveness, the all-access pass gives you deep, spacious support to write and learn without the rush.

Here’s what you get when you upgrade to the All Access Pass:

Ongoing Presentation Access

You don’t have to cram it all in. Take what you need during the live series, then enjoy the 30+ presentations on your own time.

Let the learning land and the insights deepen while your body guides the pace.

Exclusive Post-Event Somatic Writing Circle

Join me, Janelle, for an integrative one-hour writing circle after the workshop series ends.

We’ll gather with kindred spirits to write, reflect, and explore how the sessions moved through your body and your story.

$2,000+ Speaker Bonuses

Deepen into various speaker’s wisdom through their generous bonus contributions that will take what you learn in the workshops even further as you start, write, and promote your memoir(s).

Keep scrolling to see the full list of bonuses and how they’ll support you with writing your memoir below.

$350 off The Art of Personal Mythmaking

Receive a $350 discount for the next round of my 12-month transformational memoir-writing course.

If you’re feeling the call to write your life stories — and to heal as you write — this course offers spacious skilled support, creative structure, and amazing kindred spirits in your writing circles.

56% off until the timer at the top of the page reaches zero.

Scroll to see all 15+ generous bonuses created to support your writing, healing, creativity and next bold steps as a memoirist.

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Writing Communities

1-month Enrolment in Studio Sessions

$200 Value

Margo Steines, Writer + Creative Coach

Studio Sessions provide craft resources, community, and accountability, within the supportive structure of a weekly group meetings. The space is equal parts writing class and writing group, with an hour long writing block, process check ins, a mini craft talk, and more. Rolling enrolment is in four week blocks.

Six-month access to Writing in the Dark on Substack!

$50 Value

Jeannine Ouellette, Writer, Writing Teacher

Writing in the Dark is a vibrant creative community honored three years running by Writer's Digest as a top website for writers and writing community. It's one of the 15 Literature Substacks, and Sarah Fay of Writers at Work says it's "like getting an MFA for practically nothing." This bonus offer gives you access to the paywalled member community, writing exercises, and events.

1-month Access to Writing Class Radio's Weekly Writing Groups & Monthly Tips Clinic

$50 Value

Andrea Askowitz, Memoirist, Writing Teacher

First Draft meets every Monday and Tuesday at noon ET on Zoom. You'll write to a prompt and share if you want for gentle feedback. Writing takes accountability and community. This groups provides the best of both.

3-month Slow Writing Circle Membership

$30 Value

Nicole Gulotta, Author and Podcast Host

The Slow Writing Circle helps you create an intentional, unhurried rhythm for your writing life. We gather four times a year for live seasonal reflection, marking what’s passed, making space for what comes next, and do it in community.

Craft of Writing

Inside the Tiny Love Story: How to Get Noticed in 100 Words

$199 Value

Amy Paturel, Personal Essay Writing Teacher & Memoirist

Take a stab at writing your own 100-word Tiny Love Story (a-la NYT Tiny Love Stories).

The Focused Writer Workshop

$47 Value

Rhonda Douglas, Book Coach & Writing Mentor

A 9-lesson workshop to help writers find time and finally focus on finishing a book!

Your Personal Template for Fast-Drafting Your Memoir!

$300 Value

Rachael Herron, USA Today Bestselling novelist, memoirist, & writing coach

Grab Rachael's template that holds everything you'll need to start fast-drafting with confidence: your six pivotal moments, your 6-word memoir, your big character change, your logline, and details on the 4-act structure!

The Short Story Toolkit

$59 Value

Mia Botha (She/Her), Creative Writing Coach

A beginner-friendly toolkit with 3 lessons, workbooks, and audio guides to help you write and edit your own stories with confidence.

The Scene Revision Toolkit

$27 Value

Seth Harwood, Writing Coach

A practical set of revision tools to help writers diagnose and revise scenes quickly and confidently. 6 high-impact tools to help writers revise scenes with clarity, confidence, and precision.

The Definitive Prerequisite to Understanding Story Structure

$47 Value

Megan Fuentes, Story Coach

Unlock the secrets of storytelling with this approachable mini-course designed for new and struggling writers. Perfect for those who feel stuck or overwhelmed, it’s a step-by-step guide to fluency in story structure, combining external plot design with the often-overlooked internal character journey.

The Daily Prompt: 30 Days to Kickstart Your Writing +

$25 Value

Karin Gutman, Memoir Coach & Founder of Spirit of Story

The Daily Prompt is a series of writing prompts delivered to your inbox every day for a month—a simple 10-minute practice in self-exploration. Each thought-provoking story-starter is designed to get your pen moving.

Live Masterclass: The First Key to Unlocking Your Story

$150 Value

Karin Gutman, Memoir Coach & Founder of Spirit of Story

Karin Gutman is also leading a live guided writing session on memory: what you remember, what you don’t, and why both matter to your story. You’ll come away with tools and techniques to access the deeper emotional truth of your story.

Healing Support

Five Tips for Writing About Family Secrets

$50 Value

Alison Pick, Best-Selling Author & Writing Coach

The Body Stories Guide is a resource for exploring the stories, patterns and experiences your body carries. Through guided reflection, practices, prompts and more you'll be invited to deepen your curiosity and explore what is possible when you relate to your body differently.

Body Stories Guide

$17 Value

Ali Hiebert, Chronic Illness Embodiment Coach

The Body Stories Guide is a resource for exploring the stories, patterns and experiences your body carries. Through guided reflection, practices, prompts and more you'll be invited to deepen your curiosity and explore what is possible when you relate to your body differently.

The Sense Writing Starter Kit

$247 Value

Madelyn Kent, Founder, Sense Writing™

A 15-day course to experience Sense Writing, a ground-breaking neuro-sensory approach to writing for both aspiring and experienced writers. Each day, you’ll discover the confidence to uncover the creative power that’s already in your body and the curiosity essential for neuroplastic learning.

Intro to the Enneagram Course

$13 Value

Dani Abernathy, Book Coach & Enneagram Teacher

Learn the history of the Enneagram, deep-dive into each type, and get tips to figure out if your type is actually yours. Perfect for those who want to better understand themselves, their relationships, and their characters.

Love Beyond Shame: Sensual Reclamation

$14 Value

Shawnrey Notto, Embodiment and Expression Expert

Release the Weight of Secrets, Body Shame & Fear of Rejection. When shame takes over, we disconnect from our bodies without even realizing it. The Sensual Reclaim is your invitation to feel yourself again, softening the mental noise and remembering the wisdom already living inside you.

Guides and Q&As

Memoir HQ: AI-Tool For Everything But The Writing

$249 Value

Alex Dobrenko, Comedian, Writer, somehow also an AI Developer??

Memoir HQ: a home base for your book that lives inside Claude or ChatGPT, whichever you already use. Cast of characters, timeline, where every chapter actually stands, the scenes you keep circling. You talk to it. It won't write a single word for you.

Build Your First Email Course

$50 Value

Ann Kroeker, Writing Coach, Podcaster

You've got the story, the wisdom, the knowledge. Now turn it into an email course! Leverage what writers do best—write—to create a lead magnet or revenue stream that builds your list, proves your expertise, flows from your earned experience and personal story...and delivers your knowledge straight into readers' inboxes.

30 Day Subscription To Blair House, A Serialized Fiction Series

$13 Value

Crystal Smith Paul, Author

It's never too late to jump into Blair House. Subscribe for serialized historical fiction, based on the world created and introduced in "Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?" by Crystal Smith Paul. Get 2,500 words of one of twelve character's stories, every other Thursday.

Ask Me Anything: Live Girl Gone Wild Q&A with Courtney Kocak

$75 Value

Courtney Kocak, Girl Gone Wild author, Podcaster & Writing Instructor

Join Girl Gone Wild author Courtney Kocak for an intimate live Q&A about writing, publishing, and what it really takes to turn your messy life into a well-crafted, published memoir. Bring your questions about memoir, getting published, building a writing career—or anything sparked by Courtney’s Dirty, Messy, Alive talk.

Tiny Quilt Tutorial

$30 Value

Zak Foster, Textile Artist

Learn how to make a tiny handsewn quilt with Zak Foster.

Speculative Memoir Magic

$30 Value

Laraine Herring, Author, Illustrator

This no-fluff guide offers a deeper conversation into speculative memoir, an exploration of the choices Laraine Herring made when writing A Constellation of Ghosts, inspiration from other writers, ten generative portals to explore the speculative in your own work, and a resource list to help as you continue to play!

Change Your Life with Graphic Memoir

$8.99 Value

Tom Hart, Graphic Novelist

An excerpt of Tom Hart's The Art of the Graphic Memoir that highlights the way telling and drawing our story can change our story and our life. This excerpt includes three examples and 2 in-depth exercises to reframe your own project and story.

eBook of The Author Adventure

$25 Value

Jaime Fleres, Author, Book Coach, and Whale Song Founder

The Author Adventure is an experientially-based guide for the courageous creative—designed to support you on the journey of writing your transformational nonfiction or memoir book. Feel empowered to write your story, honor your experience, value your voice, heal your past, transform your future, and find freedom through authentic expression.

You’d pay over $2,000 if you bought each of these bonuses individually! 

But with the All Access Pass you get all of these stellar bonuses from our expert speakers for just $85! 

All designed to help you access your voice, shape your story, and get your work into the world — in your own way, in your own time.

Upgrade to the All Access Pass

Here’s what’s waiting for you when you say yes:

  • Ongoing Access to all Presentations so you’re not rushed, pressured or scrambling to watch it all live. Let it unfold on your timeline.

  • $2,000+ in Speaker Bonuses including courses, memberships, audio meditations and more - all crafted to support your writing, healing and creative expansion.

  • A post-summit Somatic Writing Circle with Janelle. A chance to integrate what you’ve taken in, reflect and let new writing emerge.

  • $350 off The Art of Personal Mythmaking. Receive a private discount toward the next round of Janelle’s 12-month transformational memoir-writing course — for those ready to go deeper, heal through story, and write their lives into something true.

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From September 28th to October 1st, you’ll experience practical, nourishing, and creatively rich workshops designed to support your memoir-writing journey.

But with the All Access Pass it gets even better! 

You’ll receive extended access to every workshop and conversation, plus a curated library of bonus resources, live sessions, courses, and creative toolkits — all to help you start, deepen, and share your memoir at your own pace.

If you’re ready to go deeper — this is for you.