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Digging deep. Writing Our Lives. Writing our truth, our deepest dreams. What holds us back? What keeps us hidden? What story (stories) do we need to release from our bodies? How to be better humans - for our very own sake and for others. Time to shake out our dreams and share them, and yes, wear them out loud. Prompt-based. 4 Tuesdays, 90 min. each, Oct. 7-28, 2025 5:30 PM PT, 7:30 PM CT, 8:30 PM ET. $320 to be paid via Zelle. ABOUT AMY FERRIS Amy Ferris is an author, editor, screenwriter & playwright. Her memoir, Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis (Seal Press), was adapted into an Off-Broadway play in 2012 and is currently in development for a theatrical return (2025). As a screenwriter, she wrote the film Mr. Wonderful and was nominated for a Best Screenplay Award (BET, Black Reel Award) for her adaptation of the film Funny Valentines. Her YA book A Greater Good was published by Houghton Mifflin. As an editor, she curated Shades of Blue: Writers on Depression, Suicide, and Feeling Blue (Seal Press) and coedited the anthology Dancing at The Shame Prom (Seal Press). In 2019 she was named one of Women’s eNews 21 LEADERS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, and in 2021 she was a recipient of NextTribe’s The 12 Women Who Changed the World. She recently coauthored the book Old School Love (HarperCollins) with Rev Run of Run-DMC fame.She serves on the advisory board of the Women’s Media Center and cofounded The Milford Readers and Writers Festival (where Gloria Steinem and MK Asante were the featured authors in 2016). She is also co-creator (with Jody Feagan, founder of The San Miguel Literary Festival, and Kathryn Rountree) of Women of Our Words, an all-women writing retreat for women to write their lives, use their voices, share their stories, and change the world. Her memoir, Mighty Gorgeous, was released to raves in 2023.