"You can never, really know how much your workshops meant to me. I came to your workshops with a total lack of confidence in my work, and you gave me the gift of confidence."

"I want you to know that I think you provide an absolutely incredible resource to the community of writers in Boston/Cambridge. It's like nothing I've ever seen before and is a huge huge resource."

"Toni, you have an incredible talent for maintaining a safe space with boundaries that are firm and gentle at the same time. It's this that has helped me feel safe to find my words and voice in areas that I thought I never could and for that I will always be grateful. I appreciate the way you encourage without pressuring.  You have definitely been a gift. (a challenging one, but a gift nonetheless."

"Your drive, kindness, curiosity, and talent are gifts to each of us."

"Toni's workshops offer a much needed space to those of us whose voices have been suppressed because of violence and oppression. As a facilitator, Toni has a talent for encouraging without pressuring that has allowed me reclaim the right to speak my personal truth."

"the 3 hours at your place with a pencil and tea and friends is really important. your writing workshop stopped being about becoming a better writer weeks ago, for me at least. i realized last gender crash that most of us who read were in your class, and i love that but i think goddamn why didn't we/I do this sooner?"