Valentine Leonard, Ph.D
Creative Process: where the method meets the dream
Sat, Apr 11
|Off the Walls Arts
What is your creative process? Dr. Valentine and Dr. Ann share our crafts, rituals, and entry points to the narrative trance we call writing. Join us for tools, talks, and embodied exploration to discover your inner path of creation. All writers are welcome (and we are ALL writers).
Time & Location
Apr 11, 2026, 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Off the Walls Arts, 360 Walnut St, Memphis, TN 38126, USA
Guests
About the event
Dr. Valentine Leonard taught philosophy and women & gender studies at the University of Memphis for ten years, before realizing she’d rather create than theorize about it. She founded MeWE: the Memphis Writers Ensemble in 2006, a colorful and ever-evolving community of untamed Southern writers. She has been offering weekly creative writing workshops and international yoga and writing retreats ever since.
Valentine is the author of two books: Transcendental Experience and the Thought of the Virtual (SUNY Press, 2008), a philosophical essay on the role of memory, creativity, and the unconscious in 20th-century French thought; and Even the Breath (Lavender Ink / Diálogos, 2017), a gritty novel with a yogic bent. She dedicated the last five years to co-owning and running Delta Groove Yoga studio and training programs. Currently, she is writing a genre-bending memoir about her recent breast cancer journey.
Dr. Ann Walton Sieber spent the first half of her writing life as an…