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Memoir Church
Every First Sunday at 7pm EST / 4pm PST
The most compelling, revealing and entertaining memoirs read by their authors on Zoom!
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New: Memoir for Beginners
It’s reflective, fun, and fulfilling. Suze will help you with in-class writing prompts, mini-inspirational lectures on writing process, style, format and expression. You’ll receive constructive and respectful feedback and guidance as well as access to creative and practical resources. You know you want to…
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NEW: Safe Space Saturdays
The world is a complete wreck - or so it seems! Find refuge, solace and safe space to be fully present for one another to feel seen and heard and appreciated for who we each are.
Memoir Writing Workshop
Learn how to bring your life stories to the page, and share them with like-minded writers and generous listeners. Suze creates a safe space for your to tell your stories.
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Deep Dive Saturdays
Suze’s Saturday Deep Dive workshop offers you a safe and sacred space to go further into your work without interruption. A mix of insightful and inspiring lectures, writing exercises and prompts, constructive feedback and even occasional offerings from special guest writers.
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Writing Through Grief & Sorrow
Grief needs a voice. Just like it needs silence and reflection and stillness. Just like it needs the gray, slogging along, each step heavy, each movement stiff, and absence of color.

Difficult times rise and fall. That’s the way it is. But you can begin to release your pain through expression.
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Online Playwright Workshops
Moderated by Suze Allen. Meet with other playwrights once a month to share script ideas, hear them read, and participate in feedback and critique.
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Writing Critique Workshop
Manuscript Mentor’s Writing Critique Workshop provides serious writers with invaluable in-depth, thought provoking and insightful feedback from writer, playwright, editor, and writing coach Suze Allen as well as 5 other seasoned writers who are working on second, third, fourth or final drafts.
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YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?
Zoom Theatre
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LivingWriteNow
Life coaching through writing
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Workshops

Memoir for Beginners

Writing Critique

"The Original" Suze Allen's Memoir Class

Writing Through Grief & Sorrow

Mining the Depths

Writing Instructor

Writing Coach

Copy Editor

With Suze, EVERYTHING good is possible for EVERYONE. She knows no bounds but embraces her charges carefully, listening to how each person wishes to express themselves in the deepest way. And, she laughs a lot as we go along together.
Sarah P.
She listened to me with an open heart and creative mind. She asked crucial thought-provoking questions to gently guide me to the root of my challenges in work/ life balance. She inspired me to really follow through with the action steps we formulated.
Nil D.CEO
I truly enjoyed the Beginning Memoir classes and feel I learned more than I thought possible in such a short time. The combination of lecture, writing, reading and listening were really great. All the prompts were stimulating and above all, the support and kindness that you model were infectious. Thank you for teaching and encouraging us!
Elizabeth H
Thanks so much for another deeply meaningful class. I feel like you’re sharing so much wisdom while creating a space for us to all share our stuff and take risks.

Because I never really thought about memoir as something that I would attempt, I feel like I am entering a strange new realm. And it means so much to me to have your help as I dip my toes into these waters.
Rolo T

Dramaturg

Playwright

Copy Writer

~ Write ~ Create ~ Be Authentic ~

Searching for a mentor; craving a support system to buoy you up? Are you ready to launch the dreams and ideas rattling around your brain, scribbled in journals, or jotted on scratch paper, vibrantly onto the page, into a book, or onto the stage? Have you been yearning to cast your unique message and compelling stories into the world in a whole and beautifully scribed play, manuscript, publication, or book?

I have decades of experience as a conceptual editor, writing coach, transformation workshop leader, instructor, dramaturg, and life coach.

If you are interested in creating an authentic life as a writing artist and human being, look no further. I’m Suze Allen and I’ve been creating safe and inspiring spaces for 35 years – enriching environments both online and off where writers can find the heart of what they want to say with full access to their own longing and their muses.

I would love to be your guide for an exquisite adventure in unearthing, cultivating, remembering, and claiming your deepest best work.

Let me hold space for you to be the artist and evolutionist you are and help you manifest the spirit and tenacity of the writer you want to grow into…

You're here. You're ready. It's time.
Let's have a conversation and get started.

Suze 207-205-0636

Suze@ManuscriptMentor.com

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