The Young Writer’s Fiction Workbook

My craft workbook is available on Amazon!

Writing is like playing an instrument or a sport. You get better the more you do it. The first half of this book will teach you about story elements and craft – the essential tools and techniques that will make you a better writer. The second half will take you on an exploration of genre – the various types of stories you can tell. Both sections have prompts (short assignments that spark ideas). There are also projects in various styles of creative writing, examples, reading recs, and advice!

If you are a Creative Writing or English teacher, use this book to develop curriculum or the prompts to generate student writing.

“I attribute the strength of my literary voice to the four years I’ve been taught by Ms. Seiberling. She’s provided me with invaluable practice on different elements of craft. I’m forever grateful to have been taught by her and each day I use a piece of knowledge she shared with me is another day I continue learning.” – Caroline, senior

“Ms. Seiberling is a phenomenal teacher and writer. I’m indebted to her for teaching me the “rules” of writing so that I could break them.” – Lexie, freshman

Fish Cheeks – short story – CREATION MAGAZINE Vol 8

My short story Fish Cheeks is out in Creation Magazine! It’s about how precious, undervalued, and important female friendships are. I started writing this story on a subway ride home from a dinner with my friend Maria. None of the events happened, but the sentiment was real: my greatest, most reliable loves have always been my friends.

loneliness: a dawn chorus – essay – COUNTERCLAIM REVIEW – Issue 2: Time

“There was a time in the pandemic when many of us were home exclusively, and the nuance of domestic life amplified. Most notably for me was a host of sparrows outside my window. At sunrise, they’d gather in the bamboo around my apartment and shriek in unanimous song. I’d never noticed them before when I was trying to get out of the house for work; they’d become an expected detail in the background of my day like the percolator chugging, but when my world got smaller, they got louder. The dawn chorus was miraculous. Encompassing. The hum of everything as one. Yogis call this OM: the unification of time, reality, and consciousness within a single sound.”

Read the rest of my essay about the pandemic, loneliness, and possibility here.

YOGA’S YAMAS and NIYAMAS – 10 Principles for Peace & Purpose 

a yoga philosophy workbook – available on Amazon!

The Yamas and Niyamas are yoga’s essential, ethical principles. The Yamas (how to treat others) and the Niyamas (how to care for yourself) include values such as peace, truth, gratitude, and contentment and make life more manageable and meaningful. This book is a practical, relatable text for yoga instructors who want to incorporate yoga philosophy into their teaching or yoga students/teacher trainees who are deepening their understanding of the first two limbs of yoga. There is a chapter for each Yama and Niyama explaining what it is as well as a physical yoga practice, consideration, mantra, journal prompt, and a personal account of how the author used the principle in her own life.

When Things End, There’s a Magic to It All – essay – ON BEING

“When Things End, There’s a Magic to It All,” about my dad’s death and regaining the hope we had as children, is up on the On Being blog. I love this podcast, brand, and blog – of all the places to publish my writing, this feels like a solid fit. Thanks to the team there who has been so kind to me. I love what you’re sharing with the world and the way you engage our thinking.

SIXTEEN

an ebook, free download here

What’s it like to lose your father at 16 or fall for a man 16 years your senior? Be stuck in a small town for too long or have to leave a place after too little? Lose your innocence to sin or gain strength through weakness? Sixteen brings together 16 vignettes of experiences in love and loss. Part fiction, part not, the anthology collects the truths of what it means to love and lose, want and wonder…how we are never the same once everything changes.

FIVE LEAVES LEFT 

a collection of short stories originally published by The Antar Press – to purchase the ebook, click here.

Ten Short Stories that use Nick Drake’s 1969 debut album Five Leaves Left as a launchpad and soon leave their birthplace far behind in an eclectic tour ’round the world.