Labs vs Workshops ~
Which is right for you?
PSSST: It’s okay to mix and match
Labs are online and in-person spaces created for showing up, sitting down, and writing to a specific theme with guidelines and guidance. They are containers of time and place where inspiration, motivation, momentum, and accountability thrive. In other words, we do a lot of writing in these labs. They are designed to hone your skills through practice, experimentation, and play.
Labs are generally offered in 90-minute sessions, but some may take 3 hours or even 6 hours across a weekend. Labs tend to be about generative writing. They’re for testing the boundaries of established comfort zones in your writing and bringing fun back into writing and storytelling.
Workshops run for several weeks–four, six, twelve, or fourteen, depending on the nature of the work. While labs are about playfully expanding your style as a writer, workshops are more about taking your creative identity seriously and proving to yourself that you are the writer you have always suspected yourself to be.
Workshops have been designed to introduce concepts of the craft and focus on producing work towards a tangible goal. They are predominantly online, with a few in-person exceptions. Workshops take into account lifestyle, mindset, motivation, and what it takes to sustain engagement in a long-term project, like writing a book or setting the foundation for a thriving blog or Substack.
Labs & Workshops 2025
Three months of leaning into extraordinary goals.
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Six weeks of finding your way to what you want next.
A weekend of using real life to enhance fiction.
Four weeks of grace-filled self-reflection.
A lovely afternoon of appreciation and celebration.
Twelve weeks immersed in the art and craft of story.
Lively evenings of experimental off-the-cuff storytelling.
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The habits and techniques I have developed with Bronwyn have helped me improve my writing in so many ways. With her coaching, I have been able to really deepen my character and story development. But even more importantly, I have been able to dive into practices that get me through writer’s block and organize my thoughts so that the various threads can work together to weave an entire cloth.
My daily schedule can be tight with a demanding full-time job and a family to tend to. Bronwyn’s workshops helped to provide me with a structured way to create space to write and still manage the mental load and time commitments with my other responsibilities.
The unexpected benefit of working with Bronwyn over the past few years has been borne out when I recently decided to undertake a full-time doctorate program while still working and managing my family. The techniques I practiced to create time and develop my writing have been directly applied to my current doctoral work.
For example, Frequent Pages journaling have become my research journal, where I can explore my thoughts about the literature I am reading. Some of the weekly Write Alongs with other writers have translated into virtual accountability work sessions with some of my fellow doctoral students. Mapping out time and structure for drafts in the short stories have been replaced by outlining and drafting papers. For nearly every technique I have explored with Bronwyn, I have been able to translate directly into my current research and studies.
Stephanie Chenard
Short stories, Doctor of Education Candidate