This Zip PDF includes ALL THREE of our workbooks:

Sister Forms: A Fascicle :: Tidepools: A workbook for resuscitating your writing :: Mushroom School Workbook.

Sister Forms: A Fascicle

Brigid and Lidia Yuknavitch have created a Fascicle dedicated to practicing formal play.

During the 1800's Emily Dickinson copied more than 800 of her poems into small booklets, forty in all, called "fascicles." So Brigid and Lidia made a booklet for you, one that contains their writing and a kind of writing playground for you.

Includes portals to play.

Portals to experiment with for your embodied writing practices.

Tidepools: A workbook for resuscitating your writing

Picture a tidepool, either as you have seen them in real life or as an imaginary, fantastical place. Maybe a depression along the shoreline of a rocky coast where water has pooled into a micro-version of the vast ocean. Tiny basins filled with snails, seaweed, small fish, barnacles, mussels, anemones, urchins, starfish, rocks, sand, fan corals. The marine life here has a special ability to endure long hours, low oxygen, warmer waters, and wading predator birds when the sun is high and the water is low. At high tide this micro-world of wonder is again bathed in fresh seawater and fed fresh nutrients. The inhabitants of tidepools cling, adhere, sway, swim, tendril out, curl back inward.

Let’s explore different modalities of being, collaborating & creating by and through tidepoolian means, not necessarily limited to sea life. This 156-page workbook is meant to be a kind of talisman or companion that lives alongside you, existing with you as you explore writing as expression, as becoming, as submerging and resurfacing again. It is also a reminder to let loose your grip on conventional and inherited ways of writing, and explore more fluid approaches connected to non-human ways of being.

How do you want to swim in your language? Wade in your stories? Like waves, the portals and ideas in this workbook never end, they can come back as many times as you desire.

“The first time I saw a tidepool it looked infinite to me.” - Domi Shoemaker

Consider the shoal: a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow and a sandbar emerges, or, a gathering of creatures who swim together.

Consider a writing project you would like to let breathe back open, or resuscitate.

Consider a text you would like to transform through collaboration and creative practice through different modes of being and expressing.

Or consider embarking on a new project, and use this workbook to help you begin, grow, develop.

Our tidepool is a chance to generate new work.
Our tidepool is a chance to resuscitate existing work that has become static.
Our tidepool is a chance to transform existing or new work differently than you have in the past.

Enter creative waters with us. We have been waiting for you.

Mushroom School Workbook (physical copies of this book are SOLD OUT)

The Mushroom School Workbook can be used as a supplementary companion to our year-long Mushroom School, or, as a standalone interactive guide where you can work, write, ponder, and continually become at your own pace.

This workbook is a way for us to delve into processes and practices of learning and unlearning from mushrooms, fungi, mycelium, and our own bodies, as well as revered teachers. Our goal is to move away from human-centered ways of conceptualizing narratives, and instead to learn new ways of being, language-ing, and storytelling from landscape assemblages, roots, soil, and various fungal beings. We hope these prompts, quotes, questions, and portals will encourage the re-visioning of your whole being and allow your stories to be broken open and reformed into new shape-shifting beings.

In Star Trek Discovery, the USS Discovery travels subspace via a vast mycelial network, mycelia forming the foundation of space connecting all life across the universe. In our world too, mycorrizhal & mycelial networks represent the vast space between all of us, space that is far from empty and instead replete with relationality, nourishment, connection, rootedness, and story. These networks serve as reminders that as human beings we are not individual, self- enclosed systems, but assemblages, porous and constantly spilling over, still becoming, and that as writers, we are the fruiting bodies of something vaster, more ancient and wise than any one of us alone. As Robin Wall Kimmerer has written about, there exists a word in Potawatomi: "puhpowee," which she translates as "the force which causes mushrooms to push up from the earth overnight," (Braiding Sweetgrass). As you turn each page and enter each portal of this workbook, we invite you to imagine and feel into the power of "puhpowee" with each word you jot down. That force is real, and it's important to pay attention.

So, will you write with us? We can't wait to see what emerges.

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