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Untangling the Difficult Narrative: Using Form, Language, and Self-Care to Access Our Wounds with Rebecca Evans

  • The Cabin 801 South Capitol Boulevard Boise, ID, 83702 United States (map)

In this workshop, you will uncover layers of self through expression of craft while feeling empowered to access and re-frame difficult narratives.

Trauma writing (poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction) – whether personal, cultural, or collective – can be more than catharsis. It can offer an opening, create awareness, and begin necessary conversations. Often, the difficult narrative is sought to help make sense of our experiences, and to assign meaning to what is not easily expressed. Language, often the barrier, can become the doorway.

Through compassionate and gentle exploration–using empowerment and artistic tools–writers at all levels can access narrative that sometimes seems overwhelming or shameful. Through this process, we’ll learn to re-frame experiences into craft that feels true and meaningful.  

This workshop will take place in person at The Cabin (801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, ID 83702).


Tuition: $30 for non-members or $25 for Cabin Members

Scholarships are available

Date: Wednesday, December 13, from 6:30 – 8:30 PM MT

This workshop is taught by:

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Rebecca Evans
Rebecca Evans

Rebecca Evans is a memoirist, poet, and essayist. She’s a military veteran, a serious gardener, and often engages in self-hand-to-hand combat. You can find her writing in her hammock, under the stairwell, or stuck in a fluffy chair. She teaches. A lot. She also co-hosts a radio show, Writer to Writer, on Radio Boise and lives in Idaho with sons and Newfoundlands and a squawky Calico cat.

Her poems and essays have appeared in Narratively, The Rumpus, War, Literature & the Arts, The Limberlost Review, and a handful of anthologies. She’s co-edited an anthology of poems, WHEN THERE ARE NINE, a tribute to the life and achievements of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Moon Tide Press). Her full-length poetry collection, a memoir-in-verse, TANGLED BY BLOOD, is available wherever fine books are sold.

Evans earned two MFAs, one in creative nonfiction, the other in poetry, University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe.

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