Welcome

We write the book we need to read and The Language of Loss is the book I needed when my husband died seven years ago. It’s an anthology full of the very best poems and prose that I could find about losing the love of your life. These are the writers and poets who got me through my own grief. If you’re going through a loss right now, or know someone who is grieving, I hope this book will help.

THE LANGUAGE OF LOSS, published @NewWorldPress, is now available at your indie bookstore or online.

I hope all of you are well and able to be out and about again. We writers are very lucky – We’ve been doing what we always do – staying home and writing. 

xo Barbara

I teach creative writing in the Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension. This year I’ve taught a master class in memoir via Zoom and Canvas.  This winter I’m teaching a new ten week a course: Memoir IV, limited to ten students.  Please check out the Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension online, or if you have questions or want to join the class: 310- 825-9415. Or contact me via this website.

I also conducted, pre-Covid,  an all-genre writing workshop at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena – and I’m hoping we’ll be able to continue that soon.

And I offer writing retreats in Lake Arrowhead, California.

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                                   Writers Retreat in Lake Arrowhead 

WRITERS REFUGE: A Weekend of Inspiration & Writing

This retreat had been planned pre-pandemic but is on hold until we can all be together and safe.

Here’s what it’ll be like: Surrounded by lake, trees and a supportive small group of writers, discover new doors into your novel or memoir, or jumpstart a new writing project. We’ll discuss the craft of writing and also the inspiration needed to sustain your work. There will be workshops to share your writing for feedback and also time to write. This will be a true refuge from the world – a way to reconnect with your creative self, to explore and refuel, to find a writing community. You’ll have one-on-ones with me about your work and an exciting mystery speaker Saturday night. All of this takes place at the UCLA Conference Center where you’ll have delicious meals and a private room and bath.

Sign ups will be announced here in the future.

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Barbara Abercrombie Writing Workshop

Whether you have a manuscript in progress or simply a vague idea of a story you’d like to write, you’re invited to join this ongoing, once a month three hour workshop to discover the possibilities of your story.  Writing exercises from Barbara’s book, ‘Kicking in the Wall’ will help silence your inner critic and get you writing immediately, and you’ll also have the opportunity to read your work aloud for feedback.  Fiction as well as memoir and personal essay will be explored. Enrollment is limited.

Instructor:  Barbara Abercrombie has published novels, children’s picture books, including the award winning Charlie Anderson, and books of non-fiction. Her personal essays have appeared in national publications as well as in many anthologies.  Her most recent books are Cherished: 21 Writers on Animals They’ve Loved & Lost and A Year of Writing Dangerously, which was chosen by Poets & Writers Magazine as one of the best books for writers. (http://www.pw.org/best-books-for-writers. ) and her fifteenth book, Kicking In The Wall published by New World Library.  She received the Outstanding Instructor award and the Distinguished Instructor Award at UCLA Extension where she teaches creative writing. She also conducts private writing retreats and writes two weekly blogs: at www.BarbaraAbercrombie.com and www.TheIntimidatedCook.com .She lives in Los Angeles and Lake Arrowhead, California.

For more information or to register for this workshop, please call Customer Service at (626) 449-5320.
All classes will take place in the Vroman’s Meeting Room, Suite 120 located next door to Vroman’s Main Store
in the Atrium at 709 E. Colorado Blvd. Suite 120.

If for any reason you cannot attend a class you have signed up for, please give 24 hour notice of your cancelation in order to receive a refund. Refunds will not be issued after the class has already occured.

once a month Saturdays – 9:00am to 12:00pm
Event address:
709 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91101
Store:

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