Event Category Archives: Writing Workshop

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RoohiAbout Me, About You: a writing workshop by and for women of color

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.

Apart, and Yet a Part

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

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

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)

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?

Jessica JacobsPoetry, Scripture, & Imagination: A Workshop for Preachers with Jessica Jacobs

In this workshop, poet and essayist Jessica Jacobs will draw on her experience researching and writing unalone, a collection of poems in conversation with Genesis—and on Ignatian contemplation; the midrashic practice of close reading; and the use of literary techniques like the expansive use of figurative language—to offer some new possible pathways into exploring the text and then compelling your listeners to join you on that journey.

Writing with the MysticsWriting with the Mystics: A Generative Fiction Workshop with Garth Greenwell

In this generative workshop led by PEN/Faulkner award winner Garth Greenwell, we will explore the writings of three profound thinkers of the Christian mystical tradition—Julian of Norwich, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhardt—to suggest meaningful new territories in our creative work. At the heart of mystical or apophatic thinking is the same intuition that fuels much creative writing: a sense of the profound inadequacy of language to represent certain kinds of experience. This intuition can lead to remarkable linguistic innovation, an attempt to somehow supercharge language with meaningfulness, to make it a more expansive, more capacious medium.

Writing in an Age of Anxiety, a workshop with Sara Billups

With a focus on essays, memoir, and other narrative forms, this program is designed to energize writers and welcome creative thinking in this cultural moment. Short readings, generative prompts and workshops will be matched with spacious time for work and rest. Alongside peers, you will consider if anxiety can be a companion—not to work despite, but rather in the midst of—to surface more human, honest, and meaningful work.