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The Mythic Woman: An 8-Week Exploration of Mythology, Feminism & Writing
THIS COURSE IS ONLY OPEN TO SACRED CIRCLE MEMBERS. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BECOME A MEMBER, FILL OUT THIS FORM.
Our eight-week container begins on Friday, November 13th, when you'll receive your first lesson. We'll have our first live gathering on Thursday, November 19th.
For thousands of years, stories have written women as goddesses and monsters, mothers and daughters, witches and warriors. And while these stories may be ancient, the ideas they've shaped about womanhood are still very much alive today.
The Mythic Woman is an eight-week exploration of mythology, feminism, and literary craft, where we'll revisit figures like Eve, Pandora, Medusa, Lilith, Persephone, Aphrodite, Athena, and Hekate to question what their stories have taught us about curiosity, anger, motherhood, beauty, desire, independence, and power.
Each week, we'll pair these conversations with a literary craft lesson, personal reflection, and creative writing exercises that can be applied to fiction, poetry, memoir, essays, or whatever you're currently working on. Together, we'll explore how stories are written, how they've shaped our understanding of womanhood, and what happens when we decide to tell them differently.
What We'll Explore Each Week
Week 1. The Stories We Inherit: We'll explore mythology, archetypes, and the stories that shape our ideas about womanhood while learning how point of view, perspective, and adaptation can change the meaning of a story.
Week 2. The Forbidden Fruit: Eve & Pandora: We'll examine curiosity, disobedience, knowledge, and blame through Eve and Pandora while learning how symbolism, motifs, and origin stories give ordinary objects deeper meaning.
Week 3. Making a Monster: Medusa & Lilith: We'll question how women become labeled dangerous, difficult, or monstrous while exploring characterization, perspective, and the construction of compelling villains.
Week 4. Mothers, Daughters & Becoming: Demeter & Persephone: We'll explore motherhood, daughterhood, separation, and what women inherit from one another while practicing dual points of view, subtext, and cyclical storytelling.
Week 5. To Want and Be Wanted: Aphrodite & Psyche: We'll examine beauty, sexuality, desire, and the pressure to be desirable while learning to write longing through sensory detail, embodiment, and imagery.
Week 6. Women With Power: Athena & Artemis: We'll question what strength, independence, and ambition look like for women while exploring character complexity, contradiction, and the difference between archetypes and stereotypes.
Week 7. The Woman at the Crossroads: Hekate & The Witch: We'll explore intuition, female knowledge, transformation, and the spaces between who we were and who we're becoming while studying setting, atmosphere, metaphor, and liminal space.
Week 8. Rewriting the Myth: We'll revisit the stories and expectations about womanhood we've inherited while bringing together revision, intertextuality, and thematic cohesion to create writing that challenges or reimagines those narratives.
How the Container Works
Over eight weeks, you'll receive a weekly lesson by email, complete with recommended reading, a personal discussion exercise, and a creative application assignment. We'll meet for 90 minutes each Thursday via Zoom to discuss the week's themes, share our experiences and discoveries, and explore how these ideas can strengthen our writing.
You don't need any previous knowledge of mythology, and you don't have to write mythology or fantasy to participate. Whether you're working on a novel, memoir, poetry collection, personal essays, or simply want to experiment with your writing, there's room for you here.
Women have been written about for thousands of years. I think it's worth asking what happens when we take the pen.
THIS COURSE IS ONLY OPEN TO SACRED CIRCLE MEMBERS. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BECOME A MEMBER, FILL OUT THIS FORM.
Our eight-week container begins on Friday, November 13th, when you'll receive your first lesson. We'll have our first live gathering on Thursday, November 19th.
For thousands of years, stories have written women as goddesses and monsters, mothers and daughters, witches and warriors. And while these stories may be ancient, the ideas they've shaped about womanhood are still very much alive today.
The Mythic Woman is an eight-week exploration of mythology, feminism, and literary craft, where we'll revisit figures like Eve, Pandora, Medusa, Lilith, Persephone, Aphrodite, Athena, and Hekate to question what their stories have taught us about curiosity, anger, motherhood, beauty, desire, independence, and power.
Each week, we'll pair these conversations with a literary craft lesson, personal reflection, and creative writing exercises that can be applied to fiction, poetry, memoir, essays, or whatever you're currently working on. Together, we'll explore how stories are written, how they've shaped our understanding of womanhood, and what happens when we decide to tell them differently.
What We'll Explore Each Week
Week 1. The Stories We Inherit: We'll explore mythology, archetypes, and the stories that shape our ideas about womanhood while learning how point of view, perspective, and adaptation can change the meaning of a story.
Week 2. The Forbidden Fruit: Eve & Pandora: We'll examine curiosity, disobedience, knowledge, and blame through Eve and Pandora while learning how symbolism, motifs, and origin stories give ordinary objects deeper meaning.
Week 3. Making a Monster: Medusa & Lilith: We'll question how women become labeled dangerous, difficult, or monstrous while exploring characterization, perspective, and the construction of compelling villains.
Week 4. Mothers, Daughters & Becoming: Demeter & Persephone: We'll explore motherhood, daughterhood, separation, and what women inherit from one another while practicing dual points of view, subtext, and cyclical storytelling.
Week 5. To Want and Be Wanted: Aphrodite & Psyche: We'll examine beauty, sexuality, desire, and the pressure to be desirable while learning to write longing through sensory detail, embodiment, and imagery.
Week 6. Women With Power: Athena & Artemis: We'll question what strength, independence, and ambition look like for women while exploring character complexity, contradiction, and the difference between archetypes and stereotypes.
Week 7. The Woman at the Crossroads: Hekate & The Witch: We'll explore intuition, female knowledge, transformation, and the spaces between who we were and who we're becoming while studying setting, atmosphere, metaphor, and liminal space.
Week 8. Rewriting the Myth: We'll revisit the stories and expectations about womanhood we've inherited while bringing together revision, intertextuality, and thematic cohesion to create writing that challenges or reimagines those narratives.
How the Container Works
Over eight weeks, you'll receive a weekly lesson by email, complete with recommended reading, a personal discussion exercise, and a creative application assignment. We'll meet for 90 minutes each Thursday via Zoom to discuss the week's themes, share our experiences and discoveries, and explore how these ideas can strengthen our writing.
You don't need any previous knowledge of mythology, and you don't have to write mythology or fantasy to participate. Whether you're working on a novel, memoir, poetry collection, personal essays, or simply want to experiment with your writing, there's room for you here.
Women have been written about for thousands of years. I think it's worth asking what happens when we take the pen.