A wonderful gift flies through the transom.

Susanne van Lieshout from the global consultancy MLF emails me. A major project on social justice in Myanmar is completing its first phase and the British Council needs a writing coach to help staff write up learning briefs and blogs to memorialize and share their extraordinary work. She googled “writing coach workshop Southeast Asia” and, a day or two of conversation later, I am on my way to Myanmar. I will be posting about the project as I arrive. I fly from Samui to Yangon Tuesday, conduct the workshop Wednesday and Thursday, and back home to Content Castle on Friday.

I’m looking forward to being back to one of my very favorite countries on the world.

It’s a great joy to help aspiring writers advance their projects, whether spoken word presentations, poetry compilations, or full-length books. Every Tuesday night, Writers of Koh Phangan, a group I founded earlier this year, meets on our Thai island, to write, share and connect. I had the particular pleasure of working with local writers on their Phangan Slam spoken word presentations (photos below), and their ongoing writing projects. Here’s what they shared about our work together.

From Romanian poet Andreea Tănăsoaica,

From the UK’s Gemini Adams,

“Brian Gruber is brilliant. So present. Extremely insightful. Wise. He helped me refine a provocative piece I’d penned to share at a conference of world leaders, and gave me powerful tools for bringing out the best of it through my delivery. Including very helpful ways of actually enjoying the experience of standing in stage publicly calling people out!”

Check out the Writing Coaching page for details n how to get your book project to completion.