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If you're serious about harnessing the deeper meaning of your story and crafting it with intention, the All-Access Pass gives you the time, space, and tools to do that.
Get $2,000+ worth of ongoing access to every conversation, plus a curated collection of bonus resources, tools, and live experiences from our speakers designed to help you get to the heart of your story and move it forward.
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Stay connected to your story and keep your writing moving forward with the All-Access Pass.
Here’s what you get when you upgrade your ticket
Ongoing Access to CONVERSATIONS
Instead of waiting for the daily presentations to be released each day of the event, get access to all 24 conversations on Day One. You’ll also have ongoing access to the content to watch at your own pace and revisit whenever you want!
COLLECTION OF WRITING PROMPTS (DOWNLOADABLE PDF)
Each salon speaker offers a writing prompt designed to help you go deeper into your own story. You’ll receive a downloadable PDF containing all 24 prompts in one place, so you can return to them anytime and keep your writing moving forward.
$50 Off Entering the Story (Live Workshop)
Stop taking notes and dive into your story. You'll receive a $50 coupon toward Entering the Story — a live, immersive writing workshop on July 25, designed to help you move from insight into action.
PREMIUM BOnuses
You’ll get access to bonus offerings from our speakers and other contributors, including live workshops and group coaching, access to select membership communities, and practical writing resources. These are designed to help you go deeper into your own work and continue developing your story beyond the event.
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Live Events, Workshops & Experiences
From Gutenberg to Amazon: Understanding the Realities of Publishing Today
SAMANTHA DUNN
AI, social media, shifting reader habits, publisher consolidation. It can all feel overwhelming for an aspiring author. In this 75-minute interactive seminar, we cover the pros and cons of today’s publishing options and examine historical trends in publishing that led to this moment. You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of how the industry operates, its challenges and opportunities, and how you can adapt and thrive.
Value: $150 • LIVE september 6
WRITING A KILLER QUERY LETTER FOR YOUR MEMOIR
LESLIE LEHR
Want to write a query that gets noticed? Join Leslie Lehr in a live one hour Zoom call to hear insider tips, a simple formula, and the do’s and don’ts that make your pitch pop. Whether you're submitting to agents or marketing your book, this session will be packed with practical advice and time for Q & A.
value: $129 • LIVE august 2
GROUP COACHING SESSION:
Getting Unstuck in Your Process
RACHEL LANGER
If you need help getting going, staying on task or completing your project, we'll tackle whatever is in the way so you can move your writing forward with ease and confidence.
Value: $250 • LIVE september 14
Fiction V. Nonfiction:
How To Best Tell My Story
CATHI HANAUER
How do you know whether your story should be told as memoir or fiction? In this interactive workshop, Cathi Hanauer explores the possibilities and limitations of each form, drawing on examples from her own work and the work of other authors who write across genres. Participants will have the opportunity to share their project ideas and receive feedback to help determine which approach best serves their story.
Value: $150 • LIVE september 9
Moving through grief:
YOGA, JOURNALING & REFLECTION
tara nash
This 2-hour experiential workshop combines Grief Yoga, reflective writing, and group sharing to support participants in exploring grief, loss, and life transitions. Through movement, writing and reflection, participants will be invited to explore how giving expression to grief can unlock deeper self-understanding, authentic storytelling and creative flow.
Value: $65 • LIVE september 13
FIRST BREATHE, THEN WRITE
MIRIAM JACOBSON & KARIN GUTMAN
Your story is already within you. In this 90-minute guided experience, Miriam will lead participants through an active breathwork practice designed to quiet the mind and access deeper layers of memory and emotion. Karin will then guide a series of writing exercises to help you capture what emerged, bringing fresh insight and new material to the page.
Value: $135 • LIVE august 23
WRITING GRIEF WORKSHOP
CHANEL BRENNER
During our hour together, I’ll provide a poem and a writing prompt, as well as insights into how to use grief in your writing, to inspire deep connection and reflection. You’ll have the opportunity to share what you’ve written if you feel comfortable, though sharing is always optional.
Value: $140 • LIVE july 29
UNMUTE: YOUR STORY MATTERS
ANN RANDOLPH
What if the stories you've hidden, dismissed, or forgotten are the stories that matter most? Through powerful writing prompts, storytelling, teachings, and community, you'll uncover meaningful memories, gain confidence in your voice, and discover the deeper wisdom hidden in your own life experiences. Leave inspired, connected, and reminded that your story matters.
Value: $67+ • LIVE AUGUST 22
Writing Our Wounds Into Myth
REGINA LOUISE
There is a significant opportunity to transition from merely surviving your story to actively authoring it by engaging with the "story beneath the story." This 90-minute workshop leverages a mythopoetic lens to transform literal accounts of hardship into narratives defined by meaning, symbolism, and agency.
Value: $425 • LIVE september 20
Writing Tools, Trainings & Resources
STRUNG OUT: memoir proposal
ERIN KHAR
Writing a book proposal can be incredibly daunting, and it can help to see how others who've sold non-fiction books structured their proposals. This is the proposal that helped sell STRUNG OUT (titled HEROINE when it went on submission in 2018).
ExCLUSIVE TO WRITING THE DEEPER STORY
Finding & Sharing Your Story Through a TEDx Talk
tabby biddle
There are many ways to share your story. A TEDx talk is one of the most powerful, especially when your story holds wisdom and insight that can benefit others. In this 30-minute workshop, TEDx Speaker Coach, Thought Leadership Mentor Tabby Biddle will guide you through how to uncover the deeper idea within your personal story and explore how a TEDx talk can become a powerful platform for sharing your voice and expanding your impact.
Value: $297
How to Use the Braided Form to Talk About Things That Matter
MADUSHREE GHOSH
We will read a couple of essays and focus on Sharanya Deepak's essay to ask questions on how a braided essay work, and how we can apply that to an idea we want to braid. Step by step guide to write a braided essay along with resources and other essays will be shared with this mini-tutorial.
Value: $425
Writing Through Dissociation:
Eight Tips to Writing Through Gaps In Your Memory
LAURA DAVIS
Many people cope with traumatic events through dissociation. When we go back to write about those events, there are often lots of blank spaces. What can we do as memoirists to fill in the gaps?
Value: $200
Community & Membership Access
6 months as a paid subscriber to
Jen's Substack: Proof Of Life
JENNIFER PASTILOFF
A 6 month gift to the Proof Of Life Substack as a "paid subscriber." Paid subscribers get bonus content, monthly online salons, guest speakers, first offerings, and occasional free workshops.
VALUE $66
One month free pass to all Writing Class Radio classes and writing groups
aNDREA ASKOWITZ
You're invited every Monday and Tuesday from noon to 1:00 ET to Writing Class Radio's First Draft session, where you write to a prompt and share what you wrote for gentle feedback. Plus the Tips Clinic, held every second Saturday, where we review a tip, study a published piece, write and share from noon to 1:30 ET, all on Zoom.
VALUE $50
You’d pay over $2,000 if you bought everything in the All-Access Pass individually, but you can get it for just a fraction of that.
Get the All-Access Pass for just $97 $47 until the timer runs out.
FAQs
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The bonuses listed on this page are ready for you? As soon as you purchase, you’ll get instant access to your course login where you’ll find coupon codes for each of the individual speaker bonuses. You’ll have until August 31, 2026, to use the coupon codes to claim the bonuses you want.
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It sure is! We are not able to offer price adjustments after the price has increased. The special pricing you see on this page is only available until the countdown hits zero and will not be offered again, so upgrade your ticket now at the lowest price possible!
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You will have ongoing access to the presentations to revise anytime at your own pace.
You can access and claim the speaker bonuses through August 31, 2026. You Instructions will be provided after purchase.
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For each of the bonuses, you’ll get a link and coupon code to use on the speaker’s website. This will allow them to send you the information you’ll need for accessing and making the most out of their contribution.
Be sure to claim all the bonuses you want by August 31. After that, the coupon codes will expire, and we are not able to provide extensions.
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Due to the digital nature of the product and the fact that it contains instant downloads and material from multiple businesses, we are not able to offer refunds for any reason.
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No. Speakers will only receive your email if you choose to opt in to their individual bonuses.
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If you still have questions, we encourage you to go ahead and sign up. Your questions will likely be answered during the event or in the Facebook community, which you’ll be able to join right away after grabbing your free ticket.
However, if you need to ask us a question before registering, feel free to send us an email at spirit@spiritofstory.com.
Carry the work forward
—beyond the live event—
and continue shaping your story
with the All-Access Pass
What’s included:
—> Ongoing access to the 20+ sessions to watch at your own pace and revisit whenever you want
—> PDF with all the speaker writing prompts in one place
—> $50 coupon towards the Entering Your Story workshop
—> Premium bonuses that include live experiences, coaching sessions & trainings, practical resources, and membership access to support your writing and life as a writer!
Get it all for just $97 $47
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