We are honored to be chosen as the host for Gail Straub's Woodstock Bookfest one-day intensive workshop: Life Story’s Two Essential Partners: Fact & Imagination.

Gail states of her workshop: "No one can create your story except you. When fact and imagination are in intimate partnership the most transformative and effective writing occurs . . . in a fluid mysterious way that is often astonishing."

Gail Straub is the author of five books including the best selling Empowerment, the award-winning feminist memoir Returning to My Mother’s House, and most recently the fairy tale Réveil . . . and the Old One at the Edge of the World. Currently she is working on a book exploring landscape as a pathway to consciousness. A pioneer in the field of empowerment, she co-directs the Empowerment Institute, a school for transformative social change where over the last three decades she has offered her work to tens of thousands of people worldwide.

2017 marks the 8th annual Woodstock Bookfest, under the directorship of Martha Frankel. From April 27 – April 30, 2017, the event will host a plethora of classes, panels, keynotes, their infamous Story Slam, parties and more, all in the unique surroundings of Woodstock, New York.