Discover the writer within you
with Allegra Huston, acclaimed author and co-creator of the Imaginative Storm method
“Incapable of writing a dull sentence.”
— Lynn Barber, Sunday Telegraph
Upcoming Writing Workshops
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Taos Writers Conference
July 25–27, 2025
In Taos, NM, my home town
Limited to 12 participants
I’ll be teaching a half-day memoir workshop titled “Tell Your Story with Heart.” My workshop has sold out the last few years, so if you’re interested, register early!
I’ll give you some writing prompts you can use again and again to bring originality, authenticity, and emotional power to your memoir.
This year’s TWC keynote speaker is Nick Flynn, author of the absolutely terrific memoir Another Bullish*t Night in Suck City — one of my main inspirations for my own memoir Love Child.
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5-Day Memoir Intensive
In UN World Heritage Site Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
October 7 – 12, 2025
ONLY ONE SPOT LEFT!
Spend five days in beautiful Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, a UN World Heritage Site, and discover the possibilities for what your memoir might be. Return home energized and inspired by five intensive days of exploration, insight, and revelation.
We’ll spend the mornings in a group writing to “Write What You Don’t Know” prompts specifically tailored for memoir. In the afternoons, I’ll meet with everyone individually for an hour, twice. If you’re not meeting with me, you are free to spend your afternoon writing or exploring this beautiful part of the world, at the most beautiful time of year!
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"Write Without Limits" 4–Day Writing Transformation
At the Lake Eden Retreat Center in Asheville, NC
November 3–8, 2025
Limited to 12 participants
In four enjoyably intense days, you’ll use the Imaginative Storm method to take yourself to a level of writing you didn’t know you could reach.
You’ll learn how to push deeper into your imagination and bring playfulness and freshness to your writing.
You’ll finish the week with a powerful set of tools to take into the rest of your writing life.
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"Write Without Limits" 4-Day Writing Transformation
In legendary artists’ colony Taos, New Mexico
April 2026
Limited to 12 participants
In four enjoyably intense days, you’ll use the Imaginative Storm method to take yourself to a level of writing you didn’t know you could reach.
You’ll learn how to push deeper into your imagination and bring playfulness and freshness to your writing.
You’ll finish the week with a powerful set of tools to take into the rest of your writing life.
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Imaginative Storm Weekend
In historic La Veta, CO
July 2026
Limited to 12 participants
Spend a long weekend with me and my collaborator James Navé in the shadow of the Spanish Peaks, in the welcoming environs of the Estelle Retreat Center.
This quick immersion into the Imaginative Storm method will unleash your imagination and send you deeply into your story. You’ll write material that amazes you.
You’ll finish the weekend with a powerful set of tools that will build your confidence and power up your writing to a level you never thought possible.
Allegra Huston
Author, Editor, & Co-Founder of the Imaginative Storm Writing Method
I loved publishing my own books, but it’s even more exciting to help other people discover the writer within.
In over 20 years of teaching writing workshops, I’ve learned that everybody—yes, everybody!—is capable of writing something that amazes them.
Work with me, and you will amaze yourself with new insights, new authenticity and originality in your writing, and a new approach that will fill you with creative momentum.
Love Child
A Memoir of Family Lost and Found
When I was four years old, my mother was killed in a car crash. Soon afterward, I was introduced to an intimidating man wreathed in cigar smoke and told, “This is your father.” Seven years later, I was introduced to another man: my biological father.
The Imaginative Storm
Writing Method
Discover a level of creativity and self-expression you’ve never experienced before.
The Imaginative Storm method is the culmination of 20 years of teaching writing workshops with my creative collaborator James Navé. This is the method that got me out of my head and into my heart. It will do the same for you—I promise!
“BRILLIANT! It’s so true and so excellent and kick-ass.”
—Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novelist and visiting professor, Iowa Writers’ Workshop
“Like having a friend guide you through the process of getting in touch with your own creativity.”
—Nicole Perlman, screenwriter of Guardians of the Galaxy
“It can make you brave. It can make you do whatever you wanted to do but feared.”
—Cloverling, Amazon review
