Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:30pm at Story Parlor
1/25, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11, 2/18, 2/25
Early bird $325 | Register by December 31, 2025 (discount applied at checkout)
Regular Price $360 | Effective January 1, 2026
Space is LIMITED to ensure an intimate experience. We recommend signing up early!
Refund and other policies can be found here.
Venture into heart of your writing practice while engaging the Hero’s and Heroine’s Journeys as templates for personal narrative and story.
Hero’s Journeys are everywhere in our lives: Travel, adventure, illness, marriage and divorce, parenthood, big risks, love and loss. These all follow the path of Departure, Initiation, and Return outlined in Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey (aka the monomyth) model.
The monomyth is filled with archetypes, themes, and motifs found in ancient legends and modern films alike. They’re easy to recognize and identify with and, because they’re familiar, we can use them — and the stations of the Hero’s Journey — as a guide to create a new work.
The Heroine’s Journey, as described by Maureen Murdock in her book of the same name, offers us a metaphor and path of inquiry to explore the emotional journey that accompanies the more outward / physical Hero’s Journey.
Over the course of six weeks we’ll dive into the Hero’s Journey through the lens of personal narrative. Participants are invited to write in any genre they wish, and the workshop will include discussions, writing prompts, creative inspirations, and weekly assignments to be completed outside of the classroom.
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A certified Inward & Artward Creative Facilitator, Alli Marshall aims to follow her curiosity and inspire connection to creativity in others.
Alli received her MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and has taught writing courses through the Great Smokies Writing Program, Flatiron Writers Room, and Revolve. She also periodically offers her immersive experience, “Speed Dating with Trees.”
Alli was named “Artist whose work pushed the boundaries of storytelling” for her multimedia project MER/made at the 2021 Asheville Fringe Arts Festival. She received the 2018 UNC Asheville Ramsey Library Community Author Award; was selected for the 2019 Pentaculum writing and craft residency at Arrowmont; and won the 2016 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize for her short story “Catching Out,” among other honors.
Alli is the author of the novel How to Talk to Rockstars along with various self-published zines and flip books. -