Programs
Community Writing Groups
We believe in the healing power of storytelling. We offer prompt writing workshops at no cost for selected community groups and nonprofits.
There is something organizing and healing about getting your story on the page, to hearing others tell their stories and when you’re ready, to share your story.
These companionable writing groups are an opportunity for deep listening to self and others. They take aim at loneliness and encourage connection through the most ancient practice of coming together and sharing stories and knowing you are not alone.
our community writing groups
Wildfire Survivors
Seniors
Mothers Raising
Neurodiverse Kids
Intergenerational
Former Foster Youth
Who we’ve served
“Kathy’s community writing workshop provides a weekly beacon of hope. Each Sunday morning, 10 mothers of Ranch kids who face extraordinary challenges gather under Kathy’s wise guidance to explore their shared experience through writing. Enveloped in Kathy’s warmth, and safe in the structure of her carefully crafted prompts, moms are surprised by their own courage. They connect to each other and support one another in sharing things they’ve never shared with anyone, not even themselves.”
Jackie Sloan, Director, The Children's Ranch
Mothers Raising Neurodiverse Children
Under-Served Youth
“Film2Future (F2F) is a nonprofit, professional-level filmmaking program for under-served teenagers in Los Angeles and our mission is change the entertainment industry by building a direct pipeline for diverse youth into Hollywood. Saved by a Story's writing workshop provides a much needed creative outlet for Film2Future students: over weekly sessions, our students are able to write creatively and share their work in a safe, judgement free space. The workshops give our students the ability to dive deep and explore themselves and their writing — our student short films would not be as creative nor as powerful emotionally without the passion and expertise Kathy and Rory bring to each session.”
Rachel Miller, Founder, Film2Future
Women in Recovery
“Kathy Katims's Saved by a Story writing workshops were a way for women who were recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction to explore their voice, their choices and their lives–their past, what they valued, and engaged them to imagine a different kind of future. She created a safe environment where women felt seen and heard and where they could dive into their creativity. Women shared that workshops created a feeling of sisterhood at our residential facility–bolstering, inspiring and connecting them as they were going through one of the most difficult journeys of their lives.”
Jennifer Maduko, Development Director, ClareMatrix Women’s Treatment Program
WRITING GROUP LEADERs
Kathy Katims
In March 2020, seeing an urgent need for connection, Kathy offered her first prompt driven writing workshop. Since then she has offered over 100 workshops and they are still going strong. People have described the workshops as “life changing” “church” “a storytelling laboratory” “yoga for writing” and most importantly “safe.”
Danny Stone
Danny Stone is a teaching artist who has acted on stages from Broadway to London to the Steppenwolf theatre of Chicago to the Mark Taper Forum of Lis Angeles. He has also done 10 films and 20 tv shows. As a teacher he has worked in the graduate film department of Columbia University and UCLA and has run arts intensives at Rikers Island and Ossining State Prison in NYC and the Senior Writing Group at the Studio City Library for Saved By A Story.
Jessie Rosen
Jessie Rosen is the USA Today best-selling author of THE HEIRLOOM and ALL THE SIGNS. She got her start with the award-winning blog 20-Nothings and has sold original TV projects to ABC, CBS, Warner Bros., and Netflix. She lives physically in LA but mentally in New York where she writes about brave characters building road maps for us all.
