The Womb Room
A nine-month writing incubator for the story you can't stop carrying.
The Invitation
For years, I tried not to make this writing program about birth, about the power and complexity of the creative gestation period that putting our stories on paper asks of us. But now, as a mother, I can no longer resist it.
Over the past decade, as I have helped women write their stories and birth their books, I have acted as a midwife to their stories, but more than that, I have helped them learn to midwife their own, whether that is poetry, memoir, fiction, or some genre-breaking project.
After all, there are stories we choose to write, and there are stories that seem to choose us. Sometimes they have been living inside us for years, quietly asking for our attention.
The Womb Room is a nine-month writing incubator for those stories. It is a space to step away from the pressure to produce, perform, or know exactly where your book is going and instead learn how to listen to what is already taking shape within you. This isn’t a program built around writing a certain number of words every day or racing toward a finished manuscript, but a slow process of listening, creating, and birthing the story asking to be born.
Over the nine months, I’ll help you listen when you can’t quite hear what the work is asking of you. I’ll ask questions that take you beneath the obvious story. I’ll help you notice the threads you might otherwise walk past. I’ll offer editorial guidance and craft support when you need it. And when resistance, doubt, fear, or the inevitable messy middle arrives, I’ll help you stay beside the work rather than abandoning it.
If something in you recognizes itself here, I am inviting up to 15 women to join me in this sacred circle.
I’d be honored to support you if you are one of them.
The Nine-Month Journey
We’ll move through three larger seasons together, giving the work room to change as you do.
Months 1–3: LISTEN
What is asking to be written?
We’ll begin beneath the book itself.
We’ll explore the story you’re drawn toward, why it matters to you, the questions living underneath it, and the voice that wants to tell it. We’ll talk about creative resistance, perfectionism, fear, permission, and what happens when we allow ourselves to write before we know exactly where we’re going.
This is where we begin listening for the heartbeat of the work.
Months 4–6: MAKE
Stay with the story.
This is the long middle, the part nobody can completely prepare you for.
We’ll write, yes, but we’ll also stare at the blank page, erase, rewrite, question everything, feel proud of what we’ve made, then ashamed, then in awe of it all over again. This is the writing process, the part that asks us to go deeper into the unknown and stay there long enough for something to reveal itself.
It is hard. It is sacred. It can change your life.
We’ll experiment with structure and form. We’ll deepen scenes, characters, voice, imagery, memory, and meaning. We’ll learn to recognize when resistance is asking us to rest and when it’s asking us to keep going.
Most importantly, we’ll practice staying in relationship with the work even when it becomes uncertain, inconvenient, or messy.
Months 7–9: BRING FORTH
What has your story become?
During our final season, we’ll begin looking at the manuscript as a whole.
What is here? What’s missing? What keeps repeating? What surprised you? What does the work need from you now?
We’ll talk about revision, shaping a manuscript, editing, readers, publishing possibilities, and what comes after the first draft.
You may leave with a completed first draft, or you may leave with a substantial body of pages and clarity about where the book is going.
The goal is to bring something into existence that wasn’t here nine months ago.
This Space is for you if…
You long to write and complete a story that’s been on your heart, whether memoir, poetry, fiction, or some genre-breaking phenomenon.
You have started and stopped a million times, but you are ready to finally bring this project to life.
You long for accountability and a sacred community of women to write alongside you.
You have pages tucked into notebooks, Substack posts, and Google Docs, but don't know what they want to become or how to begin gathering them into something whole.
You're overwhelmed by structure, revision, or simply the sheer size of the project.
You don't need another productivity challenge. You need a creative gestation period that invites you to listen and respond to the story within.
You long to write, heal, and uncover your creative voice.
Know this: you do not need a finished outline or a polished manuscript. You don't even need to know exactly what you're writing yet. The Womb Room is a holding space for you to come as you are, to ideate, explore, and create within a container that is both consistent and inspired.
Inside The Womb Room
A small cohort of 10–15 women, so I can actually know you, your work, and the story you’re carrying.
Nine months of intimate group mentorship
A blend of teaching, writing, craft, creative conversation, coaching, and group mentorship centered around what is emerging in our work.
Weekly live gatherings
Dedicated space for you, your book, what you’re wrestling with, and where the story might be asking you to go next.
Private 1:1 Session with Megan
Detailed feedback on your developing manuscript, including voice, structure, themes, patterns, questions, possibilities, and threads you might follow deeper.
A 5,000-word editorial review
A curated collection of craft resources, readings, prompts, teachings, and creative practices to return to whenever you need them.
The Womb Room Library
A private space for sharing pages, questions, discoveries, victories, frustrations, and resources, with optional writing partners or small accountability pods.
A Sacred Community of Women Writers
An individualized plan for what comes next, whether that means finishing your draft, revising, finding readers, querying, exploring publishing, or simply continuing to follow the story.
Your Story Birth Plan
Your Story Birth Plan
An Invitation to Join Us
The Womb Room begins in October 2026 and will remain an intimate circle of no more than 15 women.
If something in you has been whispering it’s time, I would love to have you in the room.
Investment in your story:
$3,333
Payment plans are available, along with special alumni pricing for those who have worked with me before.
Your story doesn't have to be ready. You just have to be ready to listen.
Meet Your Story Midwife
For more than a decade, I’ve worked alongside women as they find their voices, write their stories, and bring their books into the world as an editor, writing coach, publisher, author, and teacher.
My own relationship with storytelling began much earlier, when writing and art became a way for me to make sense of my own story. Before there were linear narratives, there was poetry, metaphor, and a messy artistic process. I still believe that process is at the heart of our creative lives. It’s not only about what we make, but who we become in the process of making it.
My background is in narrative-focused trauma care and embodied storytelling. I received my M.A. from The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, where my work focused on The Body Is a Storyteller: Trauma, Body, and Integration.
I’m the founder of the storytelling platform and literary magazine For Women Who Roar, where I’ve spent years creating spaces for women to share their voices and find creative community. I’m also the author of Brave the Page: How Writing Our Hard Stories Brings Healing and Wholeness and the For Women Who Roar poetry collection.
The Womb Room brings so much of this work together: writing, story, embodiment, creative process, and my deep belief that we don't have to know exactly where a story is going in order to begin listening to it.
Love,
Megan
What People Are Saying
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“If any of you even have an inkling of a desire to write a book.. work with Megan. As she says, ‘you don’t have to write alone.’ She has been a faithful companion for my writing journey. Her wisdom, presence, and guidance has allowed me to find the courage I didn’t know I had or needed to write these stories.”
—Katherine Sleadd, How To Be A Bad Friend
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"From my first interaction with Megan I could see the path forward and while I could've written a book without her, I wouldn't want to-and if I'm honest I don't know that I would have. Megan provided a graceful rhythm of structure, encouragement, accountability and enthusiasm. I can wholeheartedly say I'd love to work with her again."
—Mel Gentry Bosna, In The House of Me
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“Megan was the best guide for me on my journey through writing a book. She helped keep me grounded, encouraged growth, and helped me tunnel through so many of my unforeseen writing blocks. I truly couldn’t have done it without her, she is a gem!”
— Abigail Hughes, Those Aren’t Real Lemons