ABOUT

SCRiB: the Latin root meaning write
LAB: an abbreviation of the Medieval Latin laboratorium

Our mission:

To eliminate the barriers for writers to experiment in their work and connect with their community by creating open, honest, brave, playful spaces.

What we stand for:

ACCOUNTABiLiTY taking responsibility for our actions and their consequences, respecting others who do the same

COMMUNiTY making space to support, respect, encourage, and connect with our peers

EXPERiMENTATiON brainstorming ideas and attempting possibilities

JOY sharing and celebrating one another’s successes

OPENNESS actively welcoming new people, new knowledge, new ideas, and new experiences


Hi! I’m Miriam.

I started SCRiB LAB in Feb 2021 as a space for writers to gather and share ideas. Check out all of the amazing SCRiBBERS below who help me lead labs. SCRiB LAB is a community for anyone who calls themself a writer! Feel free to reach out to me with ideas and questions. I love meeting and connecting with new writers.

current SCRiBBERS

BARBARA MARiE MiNNEY

Barbara Marie Minney, a seventh generation Appalachian, is a transgender woman, award winning poet, writer, speaker, teaching artist, guest reader/editor, and quiet activist. Barbara’s poetry and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and publications. Her poetry has also been translated into Spanish. Barbara is the author of four poetry collections: If There’s No Heaven (winner of the 2020 Poetry Is Life Book Award), the Poetic Memoir Chapbook Challenge, Dance Naked With God, and A Woman in Progress. Barbara lives in Tallmadge, Ohio with her wife of over 42 years and a menagerie of stuffed animals.

Follow Barbara online at www.barbaramarieminneypoetry.com.

MiRiAM BC TOBiN

Executive Artistic Director & Founder

Listen to Miriam’s interview on the Goddard in the World podcast, where she talks about writing, theatre, her own work, and why she started SCRiB LAB.

Miriam leads the monthly WRiTiNGlab, SCRiPTlab, and PLAYlab groups as well as labs on playwriting and editing.

Miriam (she|her) is a theatre artist and writer in drizzly Seattle. She has performed on stages across the country and Europe and has taught drama to youth in theatres in NYC, elementary schools in Denver, and on a farm in the Czech Republic. She was the fall 2020 Editor-in-Chief of The Pitkin Review and received a 2019 PEN Writing Scholarship in drama. She attended Hedgebrook’s 2021 residency and is a semi-finalist for Pipeline Theatre’s 2021/22 PlayLab.

MFA: Creative Writing/Playwriting, Goddard College
MA: Directing & Adaptation, Gallatin @ NYU
BA: Spanish Lit, Brandeis University
Training: Atlantic Theater Company & London Dramatic Academy

playwriting site: www.mirbct.com

She also offers one-on-one story coaching and editing services.

PAMELA “JAZ” BANKS

Jaz is an award-winning published poet, singer, author, playwright, performance poet, actress, composer, and songwriter (ASCAP) from Philadelphia, PA. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from Goddard College and a BA in Theater from Temple University.

Jaz’s poetry is widely published and has been featured in multiple anthologies, literary magazines, and on internet, podcast, and public radio. She performs songs and poetry as a soloist and as a member of Philly Jawns and For Women Collective, a Philadelphia-based international performance ensemble honoring the legacy of Nina Simone. Jaz’s debut album of all original songs & poetry “A Higher Place” was released October 2023 and is available on all digital platforms.

Jaz spends her days in her life’s work as a substitute educator for her K-4 students and enjoys learning from them as much as she enjoys teaching them. She loves cats, karaoke, and Jesus.

www.reverbnation.com/jazsinger, @jazzsingpoet

CLAiRE E. JONES

Claire E. Jones is an author and small publisher who is committed to changing the world for the better through inclusive stories and practices. As an established small business and entrepreneurship expert of 17 years, she has founded and launched four of her own businesses and now mentors other creatives, visionaries, and innovators in achieving their goals in less time with less stress. She shares a range of diverse novels, planners, and journals with the world from Seattle WA, where she lives with her precious pup, Karma.

BROOKLYN BAGGETT

brooklyn baggett (she/her) is a trans poet and artist living in New York City. She holds an MFA from Goddard College and her work has appeared in Yellow Arrow Journal, Samfiftyfour, Impossible Archetype, The Pitkin Review, Big Muddy, and River Styx, among others. Her chapbook, we cast shadows & other true stories, from Bottlecap Press, was recently released. She is also the founder and managing editor of new words {press} - a trans and gender-expansive poetry journal and press.

brooklyn has held teaching positions at Washington University St. Louis and St. Louis Community College, as well as working as Editor in Chief at The Pitkin Review and as Associate Editor for River Styx Magazine. Above all, brooklyn is dedicated to the radical act of being herself and lifting the voices of trans poets.

Find her: www.ebrooklynbaggett.com, InstagramFacebook, www.newwordspress.com


former SCRiBBERS

AURORA HURD

Aurora is a Vermont writer and recent graduate of Goddard College's Creative Writing MFA program. Hurd teaches creative writing classes for all levels and is currently working on editing their first novel.

More information can be found at:
www.aurorahurd.com

G.D. BROWN

G.D. Brown has worked as a literary editor and as an award-winning newswriter. His debut novel, Sinners Plunged Beneath That Flood, is due out in August 2022 through Leftover Books. His other literary work has appeared in or is set to appear in The Woven Tale Press, COUNTERCLOCK, Abandon, Full Stop, Oyster River Pages, The Champagne Room, Jokes Review, Westview, PopMatters, Oracle Fine Arts Review, The Tulsa Voice, and elsewhere. He is a Goddard College MFA graduate and lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

https://linktr.ee/GDBrown

LiNDA HATTON

Linda transplanted to the LA area from Seattle to pursue acting. She has judged close to 2,000 literary works for NYC Midnight, Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book & E-book Awards, Saugus Union School District (PTA Reflections), and the Writer’s Digest Poem-a-Day Challenge. In 2006, she founded Mouse Tales Press. Her writing has appeared in Red Earth Review and the San Diego Poetry Annual, among others. She has co-produced theatrical works in NY, Seattle, and LA and has had staged readings at The Chincoteague Island Theatre Company. Find Linda on: Facebook, Amazon

SARAH MAE AFRiAM

Mae is a hybrid writer who earned her MFAW at Goddard College and works as the Director of Hinsdale Public Library in Western Massachusetts. Her personal experiences with loss have been an intrinsic part of her life experience that continue to inform the way she sees the world. Writing into that grief has been the most affirming, magical choice she can imagine. Mae is dedicated to creating an anti-racist, queer-affirming, trauma-informed workshop space in all of her teaching. She is currently working on a hybrid ghost story that explores what it means when someone you once loved continues to haunt you after their death.

@crumbsandcobwebs

MAGGiE HiGGiNBOTHAM

Maggie (she/her) is a playwright, director, and novelist. A graduate of Emory University with degrees in English and Creative Writing and Theater Studies, Maggie has most recently seen her work onstage through a staged reading of The Game Show at the Firehouse Theatre in Richmond, VA. Maggie has often found herself in administrative, marketing, and communication positions, and enjoys both bringing art to life and facilitating art in others. 

SOCORRO DE LUCA

Socorro is a hybrid writer and a MFAW alum from Goddard College. Her current project works with themes of motherhood, daugherthood, community, and the climate crisis. She believes in prioritizing trust between the writer and their work.

@itsmesocorro

AMY LANDiSMAN

Amy is a writer, teacher, and MFA candidate in fiction at Goddard College. A former journalist and lifestyle columnist, Amy has forsaken nonfiction to conjure written hope from the flora and fauna around her. Her work has appeared in The Pitkin Review, Boston.com, HuffPost, Blogher, and more. She is a pensive Pisces based in Connecticut, where she lives with her husband, daughters, and her shadow, a black cat named Boo.

CLAUDiNE CHEATEM

Claudine is a self-published novelist, playwright, and poet. She believes the arts have been and always will be a conduit to change. Nurturing a child through the arts will introduce them to their own power and ability to assist in the change. Re-introducing an adult to the arts will awaken dreams and talents that have been dormant. The arts soothe, heal and teach us how to cope with the prickly edges of life. Claudine appreciates that she has been called to be part of the community of healers through the arts.

KAE WiNTER

Kae (they/kae) is a poet/hybrid writer, Co-Founder and Senior Editor of the Queer Literary Journal inBetween , Co-founder of the LGBTQIA++ Healing Arts Organization MAKEspace, and MFAW candidate at Goddard College. Kae believes in the empowered space that exists when we're given permission to rewrite our self-limiting narratives, part-by-part, especially where the marginalized identities of the LGBTQIA++ community are concerned.

www.inBetweenlitmag.com, www.makespacetogether.com

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MARiA BURNS

Maria Elizabeth Burns (she/her) is a writer, actress, and creative writing instructor currently based in VA. She holds a MFA in Creative from Goddard College and a BA in Theatre from The College of William and Mary. Her work has been published in Rejection Letters, Five Minutes, The Daily Drunk, and The Pitkin Review (among others). Her short plays have been performed on both coasts. She is currently querying her first novel while working on her second and third.

Find her on Twitter: @MariaElizaBEE
Instagram: @mariaelizburnss

look at all these amazing writers and artists who have led workshops, classes, and events and support our administrative efforts!

ANTHEA BROWN

Anthea is a hybrid writer and MFAW candidate at Goddard College. Her current project is a poetic memoir that focuses on the complexities of family, childhood trauma, and the mental health system growing up in the 80s and 90s. She believes there is a story in all of us that burns to be told and deserves to be heard.

Find her on Facebook.

EMMA BERDANiER

Emma is a poet and MFAW candidate at Goddard College. Her current project aims to answer questions surrounding grief, trauma, obsession, and ownership. She believes there is a trust between writer and reader that must be honored throughout the writing process.

KATE RAPHAEL

Kate Raphael is a Lambda-nominated novelist, journalist, anarchafeminist and queer activist based in Seattle. Her published work includes the Palestine mystery series, Murder Under the Bridge and Murder Under the Fig Tree, and The Midwife’s In Town. She received a 2011 Hedgebrook residency and is a producer on KPFA radio Women’s Magazine, where one of her joys is interviewing authors. She has an MFA in Writing at Goddard College and has taught at Hugo House and other community writing venues. Connect with her at www.kateraphael.com and check out the Radical Fiction Facebook Group.

MEGAN LOOMiS

Megan is a professional actor, musician and writer who is currently a playwriting major in Goddard College’s MFAW program. She has performed all over the world in the Broadway touring companies of Wicked, War Horse, Cabaret and Sweeney Todd, as well as at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Vienna’s English Theatre. A theatre maker by nature, Megan wrote and performed her one-woman show, The Girl in the Band, at Emerging Artists Theatre’s One-Woman Standing Festival, Sounds of the City Summer Festival and at the Rochester International Fringe Festival. This year, a poem and a play of hers were chosen to be published in the Pitkin Review.

www.megloomis.com

ASTRA PiERSON

Astra Pierson is an MFA candidate at Goddard College. She is currently writing a novel about Virginia Poe. She lives in Maine with her fiancé and two dogs.

GAEL LEWiS

Gael Lewis is a graduate of the B.S. in Professional Writing program at Champlain College and is currently completing their MFA in Creative Writing with Goddard College. Lewis’s work centers around contemporary social issues, nature, the body, and where each of these topics coalesce. Their work has been previously featured under pen names in multiple publications, most recently new words press, The Pitkin Review, Coffin Bell Journal, and Black Spot Book’s Under Her Skin poetry anthology. Lewis currently resides in Brookline, New Hampshire with their cat Junebug.

KATE SCHWARTZ

Kate (she/her) is a Seattle-based Playwright. She has her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Nebraska Omaha. Her works include LEAR/LOMAN (Acting Out INK Fest and Hollywood Fringe 2019), Venus and Mars (Chicago Dramatists), Retreat in the Berkshires (Mid-America Theatre Conference), Thou Roguish, Boil-Brained, Coxcomb (published by Drama Notebook), and her One-Act, The Holding Space, was a Finalist for the Tennessee Williams One-Act Playwriting Contest.

SAM REBELEiN

Sam holds an MFA from Goddard College, a certificate of graduation from the Lubbock Area Square & Round Dance Federation, and that one trophy in The Last of Us Part II for when you beat the game on the hardest difficulty. Hard to say which of these is Sam's greatest accomplishment. Sam's work has recently appeared in Bourbon Penn, Coffin Bell Journal, Press Pause Press, Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, and elsewhere. HarperCollins' crime and horror imprint William Morrow published Sam's debut horror novel Edenville in 2023. For more about Sam's writing (and pictures of his dogs), follow Sam on Twitter @HillaryScruff.

srebelein.com

AMY S CUTLER

Amy is a writer who earned her master’s degree in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Her work can be found in Tales to Terrify, wow-women on writing, the Pitkin Review, Wellness Universe, Elephant Journal and more. Her novel, A Shadow of Love, will be released in May of 2022. Her writing focus is suspense, horror, science fiction and ghost stories. She can be contacted through AmysHippieHut.com

Purchase her novel through her website which leads her publishers’ site or on Amazon (also an audiobook!).

CARLETON WHALEY

Carleton Whaley is an MFA candidate at Goddard College whose work has appeared in Maudlin House, New South Journal, Trampset, and more. His stories have been nominated for a Best of the Net, longlisted for Wigleaf’s Top 50, and been featured on the Micro podcast. You can follow him online @carletonwhaley or on his website carletonwhaley.com.

HANNAH KLiNKHAMMER

Hannah is an MFA candidate at Goddard College. She works at Goddard’s Pitkin Review and has had her own work featured. Her writing is fantasy with a dash of horror and gore, in both her prose and poetry. Magic works its way into all her writing and even into her day-to-day life. She lives in Dell Rapids, South Dakota and enjoys watching the stars on summer night, listening to the quiet of the Plains.