Join us on December 17, 2025 from 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm EDT for a book launch and readings from Meditations on Life: A Tuesday Circle Anthology, celebrating some of the writing created in Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's Tuesday poetry circles. Free registration is available here.
We invite you to join us on Saturday February 21, 2026 from 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm ET to celebrate the publication of the forthcoming anthology Making Space for the Light: Documenting the Violence that Shapes the Lives of Women and Girls. The event will include readings from contributors and showcase our evolving artists' ecosystem for change through a selection of storyboards previewing some of the stories from the book that will be included in 2026 What Were You Wearing? (WWYW) art installation exhibits. The 2026 WWYW exhibits will be hosted as part of a series of events in collaboration with the Medical University of South Carolina in April, the Conference on Crimes Against Women in Texas in May, the Michigan Justice for Children Conference in July, and in Missoula Montana in September.
Write Where We Belong - Survivors' Voices Writing Workshops. Learn more and register here.
Join me for a two-hour generative writing workshop to explore grief and loss through writing. Learn more and register here.
Writing Through Recovery© is a carefully structured yet flexible program developed by Mary Simmerling to empower trauma survivors through the act of writing together in a community of belonging. By integrating the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) methodology with reflective prompts adapted from Dr. Patricia Resick’s groundbreaking book Getting Unstuck From PTSD: Using Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) to Guide Your Recovery, participants in this program will find a safe and enriching space for self-expression and community connection. This innovative program offers trauma survivors a unique opportunity to write together in a supportive community.
Writing Through Recovery© Cohort 2 - Winter 2026 - will begin on Wednesday January 7, 2026 and run every Wednesday from 5:30 - 7:30pm ET through the end of March 2026 (ending on March 25, 2026).
The total cost of the program is $240 ($20 per session plus the cost of the book Getting Unstuck From PTSD: Using Cognitive Processing Therapy to Guide Your Recovery). Financial assistance and bursaries are available.
I will be speaking as part of the Lived Experience Panel on Tuesday October 28th, sharing my lived experineces of CPT as well as the innovative new Writing Through Recovery© program I created based on Dr. Patricia Resick's groundbreaking Getting Unstuck from PTSD Workbook.
We are a community of writers and artists united in resisting silencing, oppression, and distortion. We leverage writing as a tool for social justice. Our work confronts disappearance - in ourselves, in our histories, and in our nations. Through poetry, art, and collective reflection in community, we bear witness to what unchecked power seeks to destroy or deny. We believe that words matter, and that writing freely is both an act of conscience and a form of freedom itself.
As part of Fall of Freedom, we invite you to join us for two writing workshops and an evening of readings and art.
