I’ve been teaching high-risk teens since 2004 using journaling, visual art, movement, and empowerment coaching as mediums into and through story.
Last week, in the Juvenile system, we story-boarded significant life events on bandanas. Here’s a glimpse of mine.
#empower #empowerment

I get to...

yes...

teach a workshop on micro-memoir.

In this workshop I share three distinct approaches—photography and framing prompts, poetic craft techniques, and essay templates.

#writingcommunity #essay #flashessay #creativenonfiction

AfterBurn AfterBurn Trailer Cover of AfterBurn About AfterBurn… In her third collection, Rebecca Evans confronts the aftermath of surviving trauma, offering her lyrical voice to those who have endured …

AfterBurn: rebeccaevanswriter.com/afterburn/

Books Fiction         Non-Fiction      Poetry   Other

Luis: luisurrea.com/books/

I'm certain you know Luis Alberto Urrea and his fine work. Regardless, revisit his books. All of them. Especially now.

I'm beyond grateful for Luis' blurb for my newest book, AFTERBURN, a memoir in flash essays.

#grateful #bookblurbs #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity @urrealism.bsky.social

Loose Watercolor, circa 2025.

#watercolor #watercolorartist #artist #poetry #poetrycommunity @idahoartlab.bsky.social

Spring blossoms and blooms. I feel like Tinkerbell prancing through my bubble (backyard). How much hope I feel pressing my palm into the sturdy trunks of these trees. I’ve much to learn.
#bloom #blossom #hope #fruittrees

Musings & Movement A Body Poem unfolds much like a guided meditation, a space you might note sensations, places where your body feels more alive, or, perhaps, is numbed.

Here's details on Musings & Movement: rebeccaevanswriter.com/movement/

Every first Tuesday, Gayle Brandeis and I offer a FREE on-line gathering: Musings & Movement. Here we collect ourselves in sacred space and offer four writing prompts paired with four gentle movements for the artist's body.

I hope you'll join our community tomorrow, April 7th, at 11 am.

I don’t know about you, but when I find a delicious book, I ration myself reading time with it. This book is brilliant in musicality, form, pace, craft, and content. I don’t want this one to end.
#read #reader #readerforlife #writingcommunity

April 18th, 6-8 pm at Moonstone Cellars, Cambria.

You’re invited to an evening of words, wine and community hosted by Moonstone Cellars, benefiting Estero Bay Kindness Coalition and featuring Rebecca Evans, Luke Johnson, and Kathryn deLancellotti followed by an open mic. Sign up link in comments.

Hannah Rodabaugh and me are still blazing through on our 2026 Reberberations Book Tour. Tomás Baiza is just one of our incredible writers at Old Speak Book Bar / This Room Lit on April 12th, 6-8 pm.

#booktour #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity @tomasbaiza.bsky.social @boisestate.bsky.social

Tonight!
Time to free yourself from whatever keeps you enslaved. This could be addiction, toxic situations, distraction, self-doubt…arrive with love.

Image: Pesach, loose watercolor, 2026
@yetzirahpoets #pesach #jewish #poetry #poetrycommunity

Treefort fest Find
Hannah Rodabaugh and me met Lily DeTaeye during our book signing with Rediscovered Books.

What an incredible singer and songwriter! And so kind and generous up close!

Check out Lily’s incredible music. #booksigning #booksigningevent #booktour #music

Coming Up: Apr 12, 1-3 a free workshop at Rediscovered Books and from 6-8, a free community read with @tomasbaiza.bsky.social, Clyde Moneyhun, Hannah Rodabaugh, Chelsea Major, and myself. We'll be raffling away (FREE) banned books donated from Rediscovered Books.

#bannedbooks #booktour #literary

Loose Watercolor, by R. Evans, 2026 #watercolorpainting #watercolorart #loosewatercolor #artist #poet

Treefort Music Fest! If you're in (or near) the Treasure Valley, I hope you come to Storyfort. I'll be on panels, reading, signing, and more (oh my!) this week. @treefortfest.bsky.social @wassmuthcenter.bsky.social @tomasbaiza.bsky.social @johnbarrie.bsky.social #booktour #writing #poetry #essayist

Loose Watercolor. #watercolor #watercolorartist #visualartist #poetrycommunity

Craft Courses, Readings & Workshops Upcoming Events ~ 2026 Reverberations Book Tour Check Out Hannah Rodabaugh & Rebecca Evans 2026 Book Tour Schedule ~ Wednesday Night Poetry at AWP, Baltimore, 2026 Hosted by: The Creative Allia…

For more event details: rebeccaevanswriter.com/recovery-wri...

If you're heading to the AWP Bookfair, I'd love to see you.

I'm reading at three venues:

Mar 4th, 5:30-10:30 pm
Wednesday Night Poetry Open Mic

Mar 5th, 4-6 pm
Sage Creators Collective: A Wild Debut Reading

Mar 5th 6-7:30 pm
Flash the Court Reading

I'll also be signing books at UNR, TBA.

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We Need More Kintsugi

I taught a kintsugi art class in 2024. It went less than well, mainly because I nearly caught a few participants' eyelashes on fire. I'll come back to my fire-hazard moment. Let me back up: I'm not a kintsugi…

rebeccaevanswriter.com/2026/02/18/we-need-more-...

Share your best tips please?
(uhm...be kind)
#detoxification #Health #balance #Empowerment

How to Shave a Zach I shave my son, Zach. Let me back up. I'm a single mom with three sons. I've taught them all the things, like turning off toilet water in an emergency, the care and upkeep of wool sweaters, and how to pee standing up (which involved aiming for Fruit Loops). Of the three, Zach's the oldest. He's also the fuzziest. I'm not sure how his body manages, but it grows an impressive amount of hair and nails, like overnight.

How to Shave a Zach

I shave my son, Zach. Let me back up. I'm a single mom with three sons. I've taught them all the things, like turning off toilet water in an emergency, the care and upkeep of wool sweaters, and how to pee standing up (which involved aiming for Fruit Loops). Of the three, Zach's…

A Night Well Spent Photo by Andrea Music on Unsplash Say I told you that I spent a good, no, a great, part of my life in numbness training. Men thought me emotionally stable because I wanted nothing, asked for nothing, accepted even less. Women thought me a threat because men thought me well. I was never well. Say I told you that in my numbness training I learned to swallow pizzas whole, the thicker the better, anything to block my voice and keep my tongue pressed to the roof of my mouth.

A Night Well Spent

Photo by Andrea Music on Unsplash Say I told you that I spent a good, no, a great, part of my life in numbness training. Men thought me emotionally stable because I wanted nothing, asked for nothing, accepted even less. Women thought me a threat because men thought me well. I…

Un-Shiva-ing

My brother phoned me on June 13th, 2025. I was driving my oldest son to his weekly PT. I probably wore leggings and a soft tee. Maybe a loose sundress. I should tell you, my brother rarely calls. When I say "rarely," I mean, like once or twice a year. I should also tell you that my…

Morning

Soaking in this sweet-baby-love moments.

#grandbaby #loveislove #love #sweetmoments

I've had the privilege of teaching for the Idaho Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired for almost a decade.

Yesterday, teaching here, filled me, reminding me of our critical roles--one heart to another--to love, to include, to help where we can.

...some art for your heart...

#dragonfly #watercolor #watercolorpainting #watercolorartist

Hanging some lavender bundles to dry.

If you'd like me to ship your way...dm me.

Intoxicating.

#lavender #backyardgardening #backyardgardener #healingjourney