You’ve been taught that great writing means unity, coherence, causality, and closure.
But these rules don’t fit your experience—or the stories you need to tell.
It isn’t easy to break with tradition, but it’s necessary if your writing is to reflect your truth.
It's not as overwhelming as it sounds. I promise.
You just need someone who understands what it’s like to feel silenced by the expectations of traditional narrative form.
Someone who gets that these forms were designed to privilege certain voices and exclude others.
Someone who can help you create a new form that makes space for your subjectivity and resistance—without demanding coherence or resolution.
With the right approach, you can write in fragments, contradictions, silences, and excess—and let your form become an act of refusal and invention.
And the best part? You don’t have to simplify yourself, or resolve your story, to write something powerful.
Hi, I’m Madeleine
Hi, I’m Madeleine. My business card says Instructor in Women's Innovative Writing, but really, I’m here to disrupt the rules. I help women writers break with traditional narrative form so they can write in a way that reflects their experience and truth.
Write from a different center
I started this project because I saw how the canon reproduces the status quo, and how traditional forms silence other ways of knowing, living, and writing.
I experienced the frustration of thinking that my writing needed to be unified, linear, and resolved.
At first, I thought that was just what “good writing” meant.
But then I discovered innovative women writers who showed that fragmentation, contradiction, and discontinuity are not flaws, but methods of resistance.
Now I’m committed to creating space for writers to experiment with new forms, and I’ve helped many women write stories that don’t have to conform.
Write a different story, in a different way
Whether you are struggling with linearity or searching for a way to let your narrative remain open, I use innovative strategies inspired by three generations of women writers to help you write differently.
Most writing programs focus on producing polished, coherent stories.
But I’ve discovered that keeping the disruption—leaning into the break—lets something truer emerge, and that changes everything.
Testimonial
"I am in awe and wonder with all these amazing doors that Madeleine Ferre is opening in such a non-linear, but very, very relating way to each other. My mind is going so many places with every new thread that unravels of this great tapestry that is women's writing world. Thank you all also for sharing your insights and adding value to this amazing non-linear trajectory that we are walking together here!"
- Rita Ruivo, participant in the courses Find your Female Tools of Expression and Find your Female Narrative Tools
Testimonial
"I am 46 years old and for the first time in my life I felt validated as a woman writer and not just validated but celebrated. I had never seen those aspects of myself as I did doing this course. It helped me uncover me, myself, my hidden self, my blind side. I am much more alive, excited, empowered and enthusiastic about the future and I am ready to embrace it all without apology. This course was like therapy and wisdom, and coaching and teaching all in one! Do it!"
- Michelle Foulia, participant in the course Find your Female Tools of Expression
Testimonial
"I was taken on a journey of discovery, an adventure into the labyrinth of my mind. It began with me tentatively creeping round corners of creativity to find what may be lurking there. There were twists and turns, moments of uncertainty that ultimately led me to personal awakening. I now have a clearer understanding of myself both as a writer and as a woman. I have learned to embrace both!” – Linda Coventry"
- Linda Coventry, participant in the courses Find your Female Tools of Expression and Find your Female Narrative Tools
Write your truth
When you work with me, you’re invited to reject the pressure to resolve your story. Instead of struggling to fit the old pattern, you can create in fragments, contradictions, or silence. Suddenly, writing becomes a place for invention, resistance, and truth.
With my course, you can:
• Embrace nonlinearity and fragmentation—without apology
• Experiment with form, without fear of “getting it wrong”
• Write stories that don’t have to resolve or cohere
• Join a lineage of women writers who have refused to conform
Ready to write your story without feeling limited?
Whether you want to write against the grain, explore new forms, or simply stop apologizing for not “fitting in,” I’m here to support your experiment. Let’s talk about how you can make your form an act of refusal and invention.
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