The Online Mindful Writing Festival

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Hi Mindful Writers, happy holidays to you.

As always when I am on my festive break my rested mind gets busy coming up with new ideas! And even though I am still on my break, I am excited about this and wanted to share it with you. This is the first idea that my mind came up with the day after I finished work for Christmas…I have been running online fiction writing festivals for the past 5 years but thought it would be really great to hold one focused on mindful writing.

I have just spent the past 12 months running my first Year of Mindful Writing Course and I am fundamentally changed as a teacher and writer by it. The writers who did the course with me said they are changed too. It is powerful stuff and in 2025 I aim to bring mindful writing to as many people as possible through this newsletter and my workshops, community and courses. Find out about all of those here.

The festival is the first in a series of new developments. I will be sharing more on the next one soon. But I want to make sure that you want this too! So please can you answer this poll for me.

I truly believe that by bringing mindfulness to our writing practice we can use our words as a force of good in the world to help us all heal and come together, which is vital as we head into another unpredictable year in the divisive times we find ourselves living in. Let’s work together to reconnect with everyone and everything we are sharing this human experience on this planet with and spread messages of love, peace and unity with our stories.

With love and wishing you a 2025 filled with all of those things,