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Writing @ The Garden Summer Writing Workshops
June 29, 2019 and Aug. 3, 2019 (Register for one or both!)                                                                                                         Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden                                                                                                                      Richmond, Virginia 

Welcome to Stacy's’ 2019 Summer Writing Series!  Sign up for one or both of these writing workshops for aspiring authors and others interested in exploring their love of writing and/or writing for publication.
Hone your writing project and put a plan in place to complete it.  Practice your craft in a beautiful setting, with an experienced, motivational instructor.

Workshop 1: Unleash Your Writer Within
Saturday, June 29, 2019 — 9:30 a.m. – Noon
(Stacy’s signature workshop for aspiring fiction and nonfiction writers seeking clarity and practical strategies for completing their projects. Limited to 12 participants. Registration Deadline: June 27)
Learn why telling your story matters and how you can best craft it:

• For publication or personal accomplishment
• In fictional form, as a novel, short story or books for children/youths
• In nonfiction form, in a memoir, a blog or series of essays.

Register Here for Workshop 1: $45

Workshop 2:  Write Forward: Build Your Plan and Keep Going and Growing
Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019 — 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
(This class will offer tangible steps to help budding writers and aspiring authors take your projects to the next level. Ideal for individuals who enroll in Workshop 1 and for any writer who has been independently working on a fiction and nonfiction project and is ready for strategic guidance and practice.  Limited to 24 participants. Registration Deadline: Aug. 1)
Take the project you’ve started to the next stage by:

• Learning how to deepen your writing (adding emotion, sensory details, your unique writer’s voice)
• Creating a practical plan for getting and staying unstuck
• Getting your publication questions answered

Register Here for Workshop 2: $75

GET A BUNDLE DEAL BY SIGNING UP FOR BOTH! 
​Serious about your writing? Sign up for Workshop 1 and Workshop 2 below below.  Remember, space is limited in both sessions, so don’t delay! Bundle registration deadline  —  for both workshops — is Thursday, June 27.
Register Here for Workshop 1 + Workshop 2:  $110

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Book Club Discussion with Stacy
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Richmond, Virginia

Stacy will discuss her novel Watercolored Pearls during the Regional Conference of the Alpha Zeta Chapter of the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Inc.

James River Writers' Writer Wednesdays
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
​5:30-7:30 p.m.
Richmond, Virginia 

 Stacy will moderate a discussion for published authors and aspiring authors about tips for selling and promoting books. 
More details coming soon...

BND Institute of Media and Culture Presents:
​A Literary Salon with Stacy Hawkins Adams   
Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019 
10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Richmond, Virginia

How to participate in this interactive program:
Step 1: Read Shonda Rhimes' Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Step 2: Sign Up for the Feb. 9, 2019 discussion and writing exercise
Registration Fee: $25
Register Here: Literary Salon with Stacy

Stacy and BND Media and Culture Founder Bonnie Newman Davis are inviting Richmond-area readers to read (or re-read) Shonda Rhimes' memoir, Year of Yes, between December and early February, so that they can join Stacy on Feb. 9, 2019 for a reading and writing experience that involves the book. Attendees will discuss the themes in Year of Yes, then use their take-aways as prompts in a brief writing workshop led by Stacy.  They will leave inspired and armed with a personally written manifesto to guide them through 2019.  Registration  and location details coming soon. 

Small Group Writing Workshop
January 24, 2019

 Sharvette Mitchell's Platform Builder Masterclass   | 
Stacy will lead an online nonfiction writing workshop for this private mastermind group of entrepreneurs who are coaching clients of Sharvette Mitchell of Mitchell Productions.