The Fall Writing Salon theme: A Taste of Memory. Share Your Food Story
Fall Writing Salon
A Taste of Memory: Share Your Food Story!
This FREE Writing Salon is open to all our students in Guided Autobiography Levels 1, 2, and 3, their friends, and family. We will meet on zoom.
You can join us even if you do not have time to write a narrative. We would love to see you again on Zoom.
In the Writing Salon, we will hear six of your stories. Due to time constraints, just six students will read their stories to all of us. We will randomly select six stories that are submitted.
This Writing Salon theme is Food Memories.
🌟 Write a Story Using All Your Senses 🌟
We invite you to craft an 800–1,000 word narrative about a food, meal, or dining experience that stirs deep memories for you.
✨ Themes You Can Explore:
A childhood memory of a treasured tradition
A food that transports you back to your roots and origins
A unique blend of cultures in a modern-day celebration
A beloved family recipe passed down through generations
🍲 Ideas to Inspire You:
The favorite dish you learned from your mother or grandmother
A festival meal from Passover, Easter, Christmas, Diwali, Ramadan, or another special occasion that holds cherished memories
A birthday meal where you got to choose your dream dinner
The gathering of fall apples for the iconic apple pie cooling on your window ledge
👩🍳 Share a Recipe!
We ask you to reflect on a particular dish with a recipe that has meaning to you. Bring your story to life with the sensory details of cooking, eating, and sharing food—the sights, smells, tastes, and emotions that make it unforgettable.
📚 Why Join?
Your contribution will be part of a collection of stories and recipes—perfect for giving as a unique gift or cherishing for years to come!
Register below and start writing today!
Submit your stories to The Story Guides by November 5th, 2024.
We will choose six stories for the Writing Salon and contact those students before the workshop.
Looking forward to your registration and your stories.
Leigh & Lily
The Story Guides
The Self-Published A Spoonful of Sage, Stories for the Soul
Writing Salon #3
Our Spring 2023 writing salon was on the theme of aging and the wisdom that comes with it. The writing salon was a huge success, thanks to all our GAB participants who wrote their stories about aging and read them at the April 27th Writing Salon.
We are deeply grateful to the Guided Autobiography participants who have shared their stories for this anthology.
A Spoonful of Sage, Stories for the Soul, is now available on Amazon.
Thank you:
Crystal Buchan, Talulah Cartwright, Betsy Hague, Jerry McAnulty, Megan Perry, Mary Jane Slavin, Julia Schreiber, Kim Stansfield, Michael Williams, Lily Bengfort, Leigh Morrow.
You can purchase the ebook or the paperback book on Amazon Canada or on Amazon USA.
Participants explored the stories that come with aging.
Everyone was invited to submit an 800-1,000 word narrative. Here are some questions that were used as writing prompts.
Has age changed your perception of time and its passage? How is time different for you now compared to a decade ago? What do you fill your day with now vs. a decade ago? How has that changed your story? Is there a story you can write that explains a moment in your life when you realized the value of the wisdom you have gained through aging and how it has influenced your life? See more questions here.
Submit your stories to The Story Guides for any future updates
The Self-Published A Spoonful of Wisdom, Bite-Sized Stories for the Soul
Writing Salon #2
Our last Fall/Winter writing salon was on the theme of giving and receiving. It was a huge success thanks to all our GAB participants who wrote their stories about the gift of giving and receiving and read them at the November 3rd Writing Salon.
We are deeply grateful to the Guided Autobiography participants who have shared their giving and receiving stories for this book.
A Spoonful of Wisdom, Bite Sized Stories for the Soul, to be published just in time for holiday giving. Register Now as space is limited.
Thank you:
Crystal Buchan, Sanaz Busink, Jan Gehler, Kim Denstedt, Bernd Dinnert, Farida Guzdar, Betsy Hague, Janet Hancock, Seik-Yee Lau, Bryan McIver, Jerry McAnulty, Robin Brooks, Mary Jane Slavin, Steve Simon, Darlene Smith, Kim Stansfield, Julie Phillips-Turner.
You can purchase the ebook or the paperback book on Amazon Canada or on Amazon USA.
Participants explored the stories that come closest to their emotions around giving and receiving. They responded to “What is the wisest gift your ever received, or gave?” This is very much in the genre of the Gift of the Magi by O. Henry. What did you give or what did you receive, that is forever etched in your mind?
Everyone was invited to submit an 800-1,000 word narrative.
Submit your stories to The Story Guides for any future updates
The Self-Published A Spoonful of Gratitude, Stories for the Soul
Writing Salon #1
Our first writing salon was on the theme of Gratitude and was a huge success thanks to all our GAB participants who wrote their stories on gratitude and read them at the June Writing Salon.
We are deeply grateful to the Guided Autobiography participants who have shared their gratitude stories for this book.
Thank you:
Katrina Anderson, Crystal Buchan, Sanaz Busink, Gina Catena, Kim Denstedt, Lynn Greene, Farida Guzdar, Betsy Hague, Janet Matthews, Bryan McIver, Jerry McAnulty, Suzanne Morse, Megan Perry, Mary Jane Slavin, Darlene Smith, Kim Stansfield.
You can purchase the ebook or the paperback book on Amazon Canada or on Amazon USA.
Participants wrote on the concept of gratitude-their relationship with gratitude- how they find gratitude- how they cultivate it.
Everyone was invited to submit an 800-1,000 word narrative. Here are some questions that were used as writing prompts.
Do you experience gratitude on a daily basis?
Write about something good that has recently caught your attention to make you realize how fortunate you are
How do you define gratitude?
In your life, is gratitude, found easily? How do you make that happen?
.What do you think are the ingredients of gratitude?
How do you spread gratitude in your life?
Do you believe gratitude is one of the key reasons for life contentment?
Who are the people that first come to mind that don’t have it as good as you do? What could you or have you done to help people in these situations.
Have you had any nice surprises? Write about it.
Have you done something nice for a stranger? What is something nice another person has done for you? Write about it.
What family members are you most grateful for? Write about what makes them special.
Who or what in your life are you happy to have let go?
Write about something that caused stress in your life. For each stress factor, write what you can do or did to change it.
Think about the worst period you went through in your life and write about ways life is better now than it was then.
What are irritations in your life that could use a change in perspective? Can you take less seriously, find humor in? How can that change have a positive effect on your life?
What about your upbringing are you most grateful for?
Submit your stories to The Story Guides for any future updates