THE VOYAGE: A YEAR LONG WRITING ADVENTURE

THE VOYAGE IS A YEARLONG
WRITING COMMUNITY AND ADVENTURE
January - December 2025

What Could You Do With Your Book/Project/Art Life With A Year Of Community And Focus?

What if We Could Sail These Seas Together?

What’s so Magic About 6-12 Writers/Artists Focusing Together…. Want to find out?

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  • “Throughout my time working with Syr, they supported me and my writing with extraordinary care, thoughtfulness, and enthusiasm. They are a brilliant and joyful human ... I could not recommend Syr more highly.”

    C.H., Novelist

  • I love working with Syr. They have an incredible way of helping me set achievable deadlines and uncovering the most urgent work. While working with Syr, I was able to complete over 100 pages of a fairytale collection after feeling blocked for years. Their knowledge of fabulist, speculative, horror, and fantasy markets is invaluable. I cannot recommend them highly enough.

    Charles, https://charlesthefabulist.com.

  • Syr is an incredible writing teacher, mentor and editor. There is absolutely no way I would have been able to complete a first draft of my memoir without their ongoing support, enthusiasm for my project, and creative generosity. Syr helps me stay accountable to myself and to my creative process by creating structure and realistic deadlines, yet is always flexible and positive and affirming when life happens. Our sessions are so dynamic and inspiring and I often leave having generated more work. Having Syr in my life is an invaluable lifeline as a creative, I am so fucking grateful to be able to have an on-going professional relationship with them. ”

    M.S.

  • “Syr’s mode of reading is deeply generous and helps surface themes in my writing that I didn't even realize. Having that trust in my fellow readers helps me lean into drafting as early, messy, but still with kernels in it of something bigger, because I know it will be taken for what it is and will be, not what it isn't. … Syr's care and attentiveness with my work makes me feel like a writer whose work matters.”

    V.U.

  • “I have spent many weeknights in Syr’s workshops, feeling inspired to think less and write more. These welcoming, supportive classes have shown me how to unwind the creative process and see what pours out by engaging in creative experimentation. Their classes not only motivated me to take my work further by pursuing my MFA in creative writing, but also served as an artistic refuge when I need a break from writing in academic settings. I'm so grateful this space exists and continues to grow as I know that as long as I write in San Francisco, I'll be at their workshops finding new possibilities for my art.

    — Kimberly Gomes

  • I have participated in several workshops with Syr and am incredibly grateful for all of the generative exercises and thought-provoking discussions they entailed. These workshops have all influenced my evolution as a writer and contributed to my personal growth. I had not written much since completing my MFA,, and provided the inspiration, guidance, and support I needed to restart and cultivate my writing practice. This empowered me to climb out of an existential depression, as well as to transition to the next stage of my career. As a QTPoC cross-genre writer with an interdisciplinary background in the arts and humanities, I often find myself in between (and/or part of multiple) conversations and communities. Syr’s workshops offered an inclusive space where I was free to explore these intersectionalities (alongside my quirky and eclectic interests) through writing, which has informed my queer non-binary feminist sensibility.

    — Deni, PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies

  • Syr pushes writers to tear down their limiting beliefs about what they can and can’t do, and shows them how to rebuild their creative cities to accommodate the new and wildly born being taking root inside. With Syr’s help, writers don’t just find their creative genius, they wrestle it to the ground and then learn how to make it fall in love with them.

    — Lauren Sapala, Writer and Writing Coach