About Writing Mental Illness

Writing Mental Illness, the blog, enables people who have experienced mental illness either personally or as a family member to create literature about psychiatric disability by examining successful writing on the issue such as Girl, Interrupted or The Bell Jar, taking on craft issues from a creative writing perspective and looking to other art areas for inspiration.

The point of all of this is to engage with the mental health system, to decrease the stigma of mental illness, and promote equality of those who have a psychiatric disability.

I also offer writing coaching and a course called Writing Mental Illness that gets deeper into these issues, provides an opportunity to do some writing and to get some feedback.