We are premiering the 2026 What Were You Wearing? exhibition on April 17–18 in partnership with the Tri-Country Sexual Assault Response Team and the Mayor's Office at North Charleston City Hall, South Carolina.
Write Where We Belong - Survivors' Voices Writing Workshops.
Join me in a virtual community with survivors for these 2-hour generative writing workshops. 2026 workshops will be held every other Monday from 5:30 – 7:30PM ET on Zoom beginning on January 12th. To register, complete this form.
Write Where We Belong - Things I've Carried: Tracing the Imprints of Loss
Join me in a virtual community together with others who haved lived experiences of loss for these 2-hour generative writing workshops. 2026 workshops will be held one Monday each month from 5:30 – 7:30PM ET on Zoom. Q1 dates are january 5th, February 2nd, and March 2nd. Registration is available here.
Join us on December 17, 2025 from 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm ET for a book launch and readings from Meditations on Life: A Tuesday Circle Anthology, celebrating some of the writing created in Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's Tuesday poetry circles. Free registration is available here.
Join us on January 31, 2026 at 4pm ET for a book launch + conversation with author Elizabeth Perlman. Learn more about the new creative workbook "Word Magic" and "The Power of Writing to Reframe Your Story and Reclaim Your Intuition!" Curious to learn more about Word Magic? Come hear the author and Intuitive Writing Project founder, Elizabeth Perlman, read a short excerpt from her new book, followed by a Q&A led by the acclaimed poet, Mary Simmerling, founder of Write Where We Belong and Write Where We Belong Press. Together they will discuss the transformative power of writing to change your life—and the world!
I will be speaking as part of the Lived Experience Panel on Tuesday October 28th, sharing my lived experineces of CPT as well as the innovative new Writing Through Recovery© program I created based on Dr. Patricia Resick's groundbreaking Getting Unstuck from PTSD Workbook.
We are a community of writers and artists united in resisting silencing, oppression, and distortion. We leverage writing as a tool for social justice. Our work confronts disappearance - in ourselves, in our histories, and in our nations. Through poetry, art, and collective reflection in community, we bear witness to what unchecked power seeks to destroy or deny. We believe that words matter, and that writing freely is both an act of conscience and a form of freedom itself.
As part of Fall of Freedom, we invite you to join us for two writing workshops and an evening of readings and art.
The video recording of the launch and readings from the anthology Making Space for the Light: Documenting the Violence that Shapes the Lives of Women and Girls is now available here.
