Beth reads a piece about a beloved friend who died by suicide almost four decades ago. She talks about long term grief, the importance of writing our stories, the importance of sharing our stories.

Beth leads the Big Island Writers’ Workshop in Hawai’i and in cities throughout the U.S, and since 2020, also on Zoom. Beth’s mission is to empower women to find their stories and get them out in the world. She likes to think of it as “mining for stories.” A great joy is facilitating writing retreats in Hawaii at the Volcano, and most recently in the Cloud-Forest. In 2025, Beth will be leading a retreat in Scotland. Her writing is published in a number of anthologies, literary journals, and news media sites, including Huff Post, Scary Mommy, iHeart Media, and others. She’s a book editor, a performer, and a stage director, and loves directing writers’ performing their pieces as acting monologues in her “Performing The Story” platform. Beth spent a number of years as a script writer for a dozen animated TV series including Batman, Jem and The Holograms, and Spielberg’s Tiny Toon Adventures (for which she and the writing team won an Emmy). She’s proud to have created the first female Transformer in the “Transformers” cartoon. Find out more about Beth at:bethbornsteindunnigton.com.

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