Online Writing Your Life
2026-2027
Second Tuesdays
Starts at 10am-12pm Pacific Time
Online via Zoom
$175
If writing is important to you, you are invited to Mercy Online Writing sessions once a month on Zoom from September 8, 2026 to May 11, 2027. The classes focus on writing about your life.
You will:
receive prompts to stimulate your writing
be invited to enjoy poetry, prayers and reflections on the month’s theme
share in a supportive writing community
explore writing skills offered through the classes
discover more about your life by writing about it
You will have the opportunity to share two pages of your writing with a small group during each of the monthly meetings. Keep in mind that some members will be new to the group and others participated last year. All are welcome wherever you are in your writing journey.
Materials will be emailed to class members two weeks before each class.
Scholarship funding is available. Apply here.
Below are the meeting dates:
September 8, 2026
October 13, 2026
November 10, 2026
December 8, 2026
January 12, 2027
February 9, 2027
March 9, 2027
April 13, 2027
May 11, 2027
About the Facilitators
Liz Dossa is a Certified Guided Autobiography Instructor. She has led classes at the Foster City Library, with the Sisters of Mercy and at Mercy Center. She was Communications Manager with the Sisters of Mercy in Burlingame for 28 years. She has written two books, Notable Excitement and, with Sister Suzanne Toolan, I Am The Bread of Life and has enjoyed freelance writing. Leading groups of people writing about their lives continues to be a rich and rewarding experience for her.
Learn more: www.tellingyourstory.net
Sister Linda Bradford, RSM is a Sister of Mercy who has 45 years of experience in education as a teacher or principal of grades kindergarten through high school in Louisiana, Texas, California, and Nicaragua.
As an artist, she has taught music, art and drama. Her love of the arts since childhood has always sparked her creativity to learn new mediums and techniques. Her study of art therapy has enhanced her teaching methods to include enlightening as well as enjoyable artistic endeavors. She has always enjoyed writing and has been a member of Writing Your Life since 2019. At present she is working on publishing her memoirs in the near future.
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