TIDEPOOLS: A Workbook For Resuscitating Your Writing

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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.

Contents:
WAVE
AXOLOTL
MUSHROOM
SITKA SPRUCE
ROCK
WHALE
SEA ANEMONE
MUSSEL
TARDIGRADE
SNOWDROP

Dimensions: 5.5"x8.5"

156 pages, perfect-bound.

Front Cover Art by Katie Collins-Guinn / Back Cover Art by Lidia Yuknavitch / Typesetting/Design by Janice Lee
Workbook Contents & Portals by Lidia Yuknavitch & Janice Lee
Illustrations by Katie Collins-Guinn

Domestic orders (US) only. (Sorry, but we are currently not shipping this item internationally/outside the US).