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Hello! I’m Brenda Hudson, and I’d love to help you voice your life!

In my writing workshops and my book Story by Story: 15 Projects to Write Your Family Legacy, I’ll help you easily and quickly capture your life stories—to share across generations or to keep for yourself. Check out my offerings to write in a fun and supportive environment. I hope you’ll join me!

New offering! Online writing community

I'm really excited to be one of ten teaching artists in the Loft Literary Center's new online writing community, Lit!Commons. We offer weekly asynchronous lessons and live Zoom sessions to help you meet your writing goals and connect with other writers.

I am “The Muse,” and I’ll help you expand your creativity with prompts and new writing techniques. Of course, there's so much more, including:

  • building a productive writing practice with the Jumpstarter, Jaye Viner

  • fiction with the Storyteller, Shannon Gibney

  • narrative nonfiction and memoir with the Vocalist, Sun Yung Shin

  • poetry with the Poet, Kathryn Kysar

  • children's and young adult lit with the Inner Child, Art Coulson

  • revising with the Revisionary, Eliot West

  • publishing with the Navigator, Savannah Brooks

  • marketing with the Builder, Rachel Werner

  • connecting with others with the Networker, Allison Wyss

When you join the community at a monthly (or annual) subscription, you have access to everything!

Each week, each teaching artist offers a new lesson you can review in your own time and a live zoom meeting, hosted by the teaching artist, for shared writing, Q&As, feedback, and more!

BONUS: Meet all of us in a free sampler class on goal setting. Take the class at your own pace!

Upcoming Workshops

Featured
Family Story "Flash": A Women's Writing Circle
Jan 9
Family Story "Flash": A Women's Writing Circle

Note: This workshop meets for 6 weeks on Wednesdays from 8pm - 9:15pm, October 13, 20, and 27, and November 3, 10, and 17.

Family stories help us understand who we are, where we've come from, and where we're going. Strengthening family bonds across generations, they remind us that we will be remembered. Anyone can capture their family stories, and in this class you'll build your family legacy one story at a time.

Writing Through Challenging Times: Journaling for Self-Care
Jan 15
Writing Through Challenging Times: Journaling for Self-Care

Learn to write courageously! Journaling is an excellent way to capture your experiences and work through thoughts and feelings in challenging times. Use structure and creativity to journal in a way that prevents overwhelm and promotes understanding, acceptance, and growth.

Flash Memoir: Life Stories in Under 500 Words
Mar 1
Flash Memoir: Life Stories in Under 500 Words

Do you yearn to capture your life's stories but aren't ready to commit to a book-length memoir? Flash memoir to the rescue! In this class, you will practice writing a super-short-form memoir—your stories in under 500 words. You'll choose which of your life stories to examine, brainstorm ways to tell your stories, and begin writing. At the end of class, you'll have a beginning draft and the know-how to continue with your collection of flash memoir pieces.

Story by Story: 15 Projects to Write Your Family Legacy

By Brenda Hudson

Family stories help us understand who we are, where we’ve come from, and where we’re going. Strengthening family bonds across generations, they remind us that we will be remembered. Anyone can capture their family stories, and Brenda Hudson makes it easy and fun with Story by Story: 15 Projects to Write Your Family Legacy.

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