Peer Writing Workshop for Public Health
Reach your writing goals with ongoing peer support and facilitated mentorship.
This remote, guided peer writing workshop provides a dedicated space for developing rigorous, thoughtful and inspiring work. We provide a combination of prompts, facilitation and silent coworking. This iteration of the Peer Writing Workshop series focuses on supporting public health practitioners, researchers, scientists, and community organizers who seek to communicate their work, their findings and perspectives to wider audiences.
Participants are welcome to bring an existing draft for opinion pieces, manuscripts, articles, book proposals, podcast scripts, or other non-fiction formats, or to begin a new piece from scratch. You are welcome to contact us to confirm whether the piece of writing you envision is the right fit for this course.
With facilitator and coach A.X. Mina
A.X. Mina is a futures thinker, creative consultant and coach who’s coached and trained hundreds of writers, creatives and multihyphenates in programs like the OpEd Project, The Shipman Agency, NEW INC at the New Museum and others.
A current Senior Civic Media Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Journalism and Communication and Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future, Mina has written for publications like the Economist, the Atlantic, Hyperallergic and Nieman Journalism Lab, and has spoken in venues like the Aspen Institute, re:publica, and Harvard Law School.
format
Time: Every other Tuesday 7-9pm Eastern Time (4 - 6pm Pacific Time)
Days: November 5, November 19, December 3, December 17
Cost: Sliding Scale $150-275 per participant. Up to 10 participants.
Cost of this workshop also includes one round of writing mentor review for pieces or sections under 1000 words.
Over the course of eight weeks, participants will join four 2-hour sessions held every other week. During each session, participants will be provided with prompts, timed writing, goal-setting and room for reflection and small group discussion.
Especially in remote writing workshops, structured “body doubling,” or working in the physical or online presence of others working on similar projects, can strengthen presence, accountability, and motivation towards reaching writing goals. Our mission is to use these tools to support you through your writing process.
