Kate Farrell, Storyteller

Events

2025
June Workshops
 


“Writing the Heroine’s Journey”
In Person: June 3rd | 5:30 – 7:30 pm
West Portal Branch, San Francisco Public Library
in partnership with Bookshop West Portal
Registration now Open!

Explore the unique challenges of the heroine’s journey as depicted in ancient, feminine myths and fairy tales through writing. Learn how to use the feminine quest in your creative writing for any genre: fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and more. We will discuss the benchmarks of the feminine journey that date back millennia to matriarchal cultures. Tapping into the foundational Slavic tale, Baba Yaga & Vasilissa the Brave, with prompts and short writing exercises, we’ll discover how to use the narrative arc of the heroine’s journey and its basic motifs in creative work. For Writers and Creatives. Register with the library HERE:

https://sfpl.org/events/2025/06/03/workshop-writing-heroines-journey

 

“Psyche – The Greek Goddess Of The Soul” by HollySierraArt

Writing the Heroine’s Journey with Kate Farrell

Four-Session Virtual Workshop, Online with Zoom
Saturdays 9:00am – 11:00 am/ PDT
June 7, 14, 21, 28
Cost: $100 for all four sessions
Limited Enrollment

Registration NOW Open! 

Our culture is bombarded with tropes of the hero’s journey, yet suppresses the heroine’s quest. In this interactive, four-session workshop we will explore the exceptional and unique challenges of the fairy tale heroine’s journey found in ancient, feminine tales.

You’ll learn how to use elements of the feminine quest in your journaling or creative writing for any genre—fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and more!

Deconstructing the foundational Greek myth of “Psyche and Eros” as the basis for our discussion and writing, we’ll translate its archaic challenges to those facing modern women.

Limited enrollment! Register here: https://woventales.net/online-classes/

Announcing the launch of a new book by Kate Farrell!
THE FAIRY TALE HEROINE: Live and Create Her Journey, October 7, 2024, ongoing through 2025.
This new book is a nonfiction guide to the heroine’s journey based on ancient tales of the feminine quest. We will explore the characters, the tasks, and the three stages of the heroine’s journey, so familiar to us all, presented in a clear, engaging, interactive format.
THE FAIRY TALE HEROINE grew out of Kate’s memoir in which she braided tales of the feminine quest with her life story. She discovered that most readers did not know the basic elements of the heroine’s journey based on fairy tales. It is with great pleasure that we anticipate following her pathway together on this inclusive platform and share in her heroic successes.
Publishing the book on Substack as a series of posts will provide an exciting interactive process between author and readers: https://farrellk.substack.com/ Subscribe today for weekly posts!