Hello from Missouri
Introducing Missouri Women Who Write
Hello from Missouri, and a Missouri woman who writes. There are a lot of us, and I’m glad. Missouri Women Who Write, in fact, is a place created just for us—to build community among writers of from all corners of the state.
This is the vision of founder Nina Mukerjee Furstenau, an award-winning Missouri-based food journalist and author, who began a retreat series under the name Women Who Write in 2024. Nina has generously passed her vision into the hands of Jessica Vaughn Martin, Sunitha Bosecker, and Anna Grey, three more Midwestern women who write.
The heart of this organization, like we said before, is to build community; we’re doing that first with half-day retreats, which aim to be useful, rejuvenating, and supportive for writers of all experience levels and genres. Bring us your poets, your novelists, your copywriters, journalists, academics and students, and whoever else wants to put a pen to paper and say something, feel something, do something with words.
Our first retreat is coming soon: February 22, 2025 in Columbia Missouri. We’re thrilled to have Tina Casagrand Foss, founder and publisher of The New Territory magazine, talk PLACEWRITING. We will have a morning refreshments, writing talks and writing time, then we’ll lunch. Registration closes on February 15th. You can sign up through this Google Form; please make sure to register if you plan to attend, otherwise they’ll be “no soup for you!” And we don’t anyone going soupless.
We’re excited to build this community of Missouri women writers. Follow along for updates on future retreats, writing meetups and groups, and other events.