The Sacrament of the Moment: A Spiritual Writing Workshop, led by Stephanie Paulsell Jul 8th, 2027 Venue: Collegeville Institute Categories: Writing Workshop This workshop welcomes writers at all levels working in creative nonfiction, fiction, or poetry. Participants will submit 10–12 pages of writing approximately six weeks before the workshop. Applications are due: Sunday, January 17, 2026.
Pastoral Writing: for the church, the world, and the pastor, co-led by Amy Peterson and Isaac Villegas Jun 21st, 2027 Venue: Collegeville Institute Categories: Writing Workshop Since the apostle Paul first wrote to the churches under his care, the pastor’s life has been a writing life. This is a workshop for early to mid-career clergy who love words–or who, at least, want to learn to love them. Applications are due: Sunday, January 10, 2026.
Ink and Insurgence: Writing as Social Activism, co-led by Tom Montgomery Fate and Karen Gonzalez Jun 7th, 2027 Venue: Collegeville Institute Categories: Writing Workshop This non-fiction workshop will explore the writer as an activist-artist, whose work, whether in the library or on the street, can inspire social change. Applications are due: Sunday, January 3, 2026.
Poetry is (Not) Like a Prayer, led by Pádraig Ó Tuama May 24th, 2027 Venue: Collegeville Institute Categories: Writing Workshop This workshop will examine prayers and poems, exploring form, desire and address, and employ these explorations in daily creative writing prompts. The outcome will depend on the writer: poems, prayers, liturgies, spells, anti-liturgies, curses, blessings, invictives and invitations. Applications are due: Sunday, December 13, 2026.
How to Love this World: Writing about Life, Loss, and Earth, led by Mallory McDuff May 17th, 2027 Venue: Trinity Episcopal Church Categories: Writing Workshop How might writing show us how to love a world that’s both beautiful and on fire? How could crafting stories help us create meaning at the intersection of life and loss on this one Earth? Applications are due: Sunday, December 6, 2026.
About Me, About You: a writing workshop by and for women of color, led by Roohi Choudhry Mar 15th, 2027 Venue: Collegeville Institute Categories: Writing Workshop Tags: writing workshops This generative writing workshop will bring together women and gender-expansive folk of color from diverse backgrounds to write creative prose (fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid forms) rooted in personal experience. Participants will generate new work based on the group’s discussions and reflections on lineage, tradition, and faith. Applications are due: Sunday, September 13, 2026.
Apart, and Yet a Part, led by Michael N. McGregor Mar 2nd, 2027 Venue: Collegeville Institute Categories: Writing Workshop Ingredients for a productive writing experience: a room with a view, meals provided, the opportunity to structure your writing time as you wish, and access to a professional writing coach. This program is designed to give participants maximum time and freedom for writing. Applications are due: Sunday, September 6, 2026.
Creative Convergence: A Gathering of Words with Patrice Gopo Feb 11th, 2027 Venue: Saint Francis Springs Prayer Center Categories: Writing Workshop Patrice Gopo is an award-winning writer who crafts stories steeped in themes of place, belonging, and home. Her essay collections include Autumn Song, recipient of the inaugural Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award, and All the Colors We Will See, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Her picture books include Ripening Time, recipient of a North Carolina Book Award and finalist for a Southern Book Prize, All the Places We Call Home, and the forthcoming Beyond Alaska’s Window. Patrice is also the editor of the essay anthology We Deserve to Heal, a project deeply connected to the Collegeville Institute.
Waiting for Words: An Advent Writing Workshop with Lauren Winner Dec 8th, 2026 Venue: St. Francis Springs Prayer Center Categories: Regional Workshop, Writing Workshop Waiting and generating; patience and urgency—these are all ingredients to the writing life, and, indeed, to the spiritual life. In this five-day workshop, we will enter the season of Advent with prayerful attention and focus, and we will both wait patiently for our words and undertake reading and writing exercises that summon our words. Some of our time will be devoted to being creatively nourished through short readings, and through engagement with visual art, music, and other artistic media; some of our time will be devoted to generative writing exercises. Some of our time, we'll be together in a group; some time, in solitude. Arrive looking for inspiration and nourishment, ready to write and to listen to the Spirit. Writers of all levels welcome.
Autumn Rhythms, Rituals, & Writing: Nourishment for Creative Souls with Charlotte Donlon (three-part workshop) Sep 14th, 2026 | 7:00 pm Venue: Virtual Workshop Categories: Virtual Workshop, Virtual Workshop Series, Writing Workshop The contemplative writer Thomas Merton reminds us that "there is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fount of action and joy." What if the season of Autumn itself became our instructor? How can falling leaves, cooling afternoons, the longer evenings form our creative practices?
