Upcoming Events

Linda Olson is one of our faculty members at The Well. Enjoy this encouragement as she describes an upcoming workshop she’ll be teaching at The Well.    What do you do when you get discouraged? Do you withdraw, get angry or check your cupboard for the junk food? Those are typical things that many of

Excerpted from Cynthia Beach’s Creative Juices: A Splash of Story Craft, Process & Creative Soul Care (2019) I was struggling. As I revised my novel manuscript, The Surface of Water, I was seeing only the edge of a character’s backstory. In the backstory, character Trish is assaulted. But I couldn’t yet see it. I really

Hello! My name is Crystal Bowman and I have been writing books for almost 30 years. I broke into publishing in 1993 by self-publishing a collection of humorous poems for children to compliment my school programs. I teach poetry workshops in the classrooms and entertain larger groups by sharing my poems, stories, and the ideas

  When I was a child, my sisters and I did a lot of playing outside; running around in our thongs on a warm summer day. If it was too hot outside, we would go indoors and plop in front of the television, which often had snow on it regardless of how much we played

Would you like to get a taste of what The Well Conference will be like? If so, watching this video is a must! The Well’s Founder and Director, Kathy Bruins interviews Marnie Swedberg of our leadership team. Marnie is heading the speaking track as well as teaching some marketing workshops. Stay tuned until the end

In a world that is becoming more divisive in many ways, and Covid is not helping that fact, it is time to come together as a creative community that serves God. I have heard so many times how writers are looking for artists or illustrators, actors looking for platform development as well as growing in