Johanna Franzel

10/06/2026

Baby’s first byline! An honor & joy to write this mini memoir for Decor Maine Magazine’s Interiors Issue, exploring the process of rehabilitating an old house and ailing body. So grateful to Susan Grisanti and Susan Conley - wonderful Susans! 🩵

09/27/2026

Hope to see you at a future date!

The author series scheduled for today with Johanna Franzel will be postponed. Stay tuned to this event page for updates on a rescheduled date: AUTHOR SERIES - Johanna Franzel with Write Yourself Home. Thank you!

09/23/2026

So looking forward to this! Hope to see you in Denmark... Maine!

This Sunday at 5 p.m. we're welcoming Portland author Johanna Franzel to the DAC for an evening celebrating her debut book, Write Yourself Home 📖

Do you ever feel like your body is something to manage or push through, rather than a place you can actually feel at home in? That's exactly what this book is about.

Equal parts memoir and hands-on guide, Write Yourself Home draws on Johanna's two decades of living with autoimmune disease and the writing and movement practices she's developed through years of teaching.

"Johanna Franzel shows us a way to open up again to life and to hope and joy and full embodiment." — Susan Conley, author of Landslide

This event is made possible through a collaboration with Denmark Public Library, the Denmark Historical Society, and a generous community angel. 💛 We hope you'll join us with good company at 5 p.m. on Sunday!

09/20/2026

Lots of great events coming up!

09/03/2026

Super excited to share Write Yourself Home, an immersive eight-month course in embodied writing that combines two in-person retreats on the coast of Maine and bimonthly online workshops. Expansive time to deepen into the process, explore, connect, and reclaim the body as a site for knowing and writing. Details in bio! 🫀✍️✨

08/21/2026

An excerpt from Write Yourself Home - out now and available from your local bookstore!

08/04/2026

WRITE YOURSELF HOME launches today! I’m so thrilled to share this book, and deeply grateful to the legions who made this all possible (looking at you, wonderful folks at North Atlantic Books!) It’s my wild hope that the stories and practices in this creative guidebook ignite something inclusive and kind and bodied and creative in you.

07/31/2026

It’s here! It’s here! Unboxing Write Yourself Home from North Atlantic Books! Join me, Print Bookstore Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance & Susan Conley for a launch celebration on Tuesday, August 4th at 6pm at beautiful Broadturn Farm - info and RSVP in bio! ✨📚📦🎉

05/22/2026

YOU GUYS. The wild / proud / unreal / heart expanding feeling of holding an actual physical copy of WRITE YOURSELF HOME! And then the sky! Cannot wait to share this with you. 🩵✨🌅📘🥹

05/08/2026

Another absolutely magical week in the books with dream collaborators & at s paradise. We tasted local w**e and honey, foraged for wild plants, wandered ancient streets, hiked through the countryside, stretched, wrote, and shared. Laughter, tender tears, spontaneous dance parties, and the particular gift of connecting with new souls in beautiful places.

Plus two milestones for me: my first book talk (thanks for the push, ! ;) and eating gluten pain free for the first time in 20 years. 🥳

We’re already hatching plans for next year and check bio for our upcoming equine embodied writing retreat June 26-28!