BWC is a robust, multi-generational global community of online workshops and retreats devoted to the power of personal storytelling. Our mission is to create vibrant, boundaried classes rooted in radical empathy, active listening and integrity so that all students are able to generate their most potent and powerful work to date. 

Our online workshops and in-person retreats are creative, inclusive spaces that strive to hold and celebrate the human experience — both universal and specific.  Designed to strengthen the imagination, tone the memory muscle and keep the right brain well-oxygenated and engaged at all times, our streamlined courses, syllabi and class flow are for creatives who have traditionally felt alienated from not only the publishing world but from the page itself — self-identified unconventional learners and out-of-the-box thinkers eager to harness their hard past and learn the narrative tools they need to tell a poetic, propulsive story from beginning to end. 

Over the years, BWC students have shared their work in the New York Times, The Moth, Vogue, The Cut, The Rumpus, McSweeneys, i-D, earned their MFA’s at the New School, NYU and Columbia, and have landed book deals with Metropolitan books, Random House and Doubleday. Our guest speakers include Carvell Wallace, Alex Auder, Margo Steines, Melissa Febos, Laurel Braitman, Danyel Smith, Jessamine Chan, Xochitl Gonzelaz, Jamie Diamond and more. 

Founded in 2018 by Molly Rosen in the basement of her Williamsburg apartment building, BWC has quickly become an essential community for seekers, CEO’s and artists across all platforms interested in mobilizing their memories in order to put powerful work out into the world. We are working everyday to inspire people to dive deep into a self-directed writing practice, embrace the beautiful mess of their mind and develop a narrative process that feels joyful, authentic and true. Stories are the medicine. There is no wrong way to write.