Apart, and Yet a Part, a workshop with Michael N. McGregor Jun 1st, 2026 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 an award-winning writing coach. This program is designed to give participants maximum time and freedom for writing. Mornings and afternoons are yours to structure as you wish.
Writing in the Wilderness: reflecting on the immigration stories that have shaped our lives with Isaac Villegas May 15th, 2026 Venue: St. Francis Springs Prayer Center Categories: Regional Workshop, Writing Workshop We’re living through an era of displacement, of dislocation. People are on the move in search of safety, of belonging—wandering in unfamiliar lands, in cultural and political wildernesses, looking for communities to call home. This workshop will focus on our … Read more >
Out of the depths: writing prayer: a poetry workshop with Marie Howe May 4th, 2026 Venue: Trinity Episcopal Church Categories: Regional Workshop, Writing Workshop In this workshop, guided by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Marie Howe, we will read and write prayer poems. Each day we’ll read poems written by poets from the past as well as contemporary poets. Looking closely at the poems – at tone and diction and image, and line and syntax and rhythm etc. ) – we will broaden the possibilities for our own voices. We will practice radical receptivity. We take time to generate our own prayer poems each day and have the opportunity to share with each other.
Reading and Writing with Joan Didion (a workshop led by Alissa Wilkinson) Mar 16th, 2026 Venue: Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club Categories: Regional Workshop, Writing Workshop Joan Didion often said that the way a writer says things is even more revealing than what they say. What can we learn about the work of writing from her? In this workshop, we’ll devote a week to Didion’s work, particularly concentrating on her essays, discovering the ways she approached specific craft challenges. We’ll practice close reading of Didion’s work. We’ll write. And we’ll workshop our work. (The work we’ll workshop will be work we generate during our time together — participants will not circulate already-written work ahead of time.) Long-standing devotees of Didion and those new to her work are warmly welcome!
Writing in the Wilderness: reflecting on the immigration stories that have shaped our lives with Isaac Villegas Mar 2nd, 2026 Venue: Redemptorist Renewal Retreat Center Categories: Regional Workshop, Writing Workshop We’re living through an era of displacement, of dislocation. People are on the move in search of safety, of belonging—wandering in unfamiliar lands, in cultural and political wildernesses, looking for communities to call home. This workshop will focus on our … Read more >
Fifty Pairs of Eyes: Creating Characters in Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry with Stephanie Paulsell Oct 27th, 2025 Venue: Roslyn Conference and Retreat Center Categories: Regional Workshop, Writing Workshop This workshop will focus on cultivating practices that help us see further around the people about whom we write: learning from both visual and literary arts about how to bring the humanity of our characters closer to the reader, how to navigate the visible and the invisible, and how to shape portraits in words that reverence human dignity.
The Release: How Writing in an Economy of Gifts Liberates Writers Sep 29th, 2025 | 6:00 pm Venue: Virtual Workshop Categories: Virtual Workshop, Writing Workshop Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, will offer a virtual workshop based on her most recent book The Release: Creativity and Freedom After the Writing is Done. Join us on zoom Monday, September 29, 2025, from 6:00–7:30pm Central Time.
Deep and Wide: Longform Prose Revision Jul 9th, 2025 Venue: Collegeville Institute Categories: Writing Workshop This workshop is designed for people who are somewhere well into their work on a long-form nonfiction prose project (that is, a nonfiction book): a series of essays about saints and sinners, or a memoir about your prayer life or your search for your birth parents, or an exploration of the spirituality of rocks. Applications are due: Monday, January 27, 2025.
A Sparked Imagination Jun 23rd, 2025 Venue: Collegeville Institute Categories: Writing Workshop This workshop is designed for pastors and other leaders of institutions, congregations, communities who are responsible for nourishing the imaginations of their communities. Applications are due: Monday, January 20, 2025.
Flesh and Blood: Crafting a Communal Constructive Theological Anthropology May 27th, 2025 | 5:00 pm Venue: Collegeville Institute Categories: Writing Workshop The Collegeville Institute will host Flesh and Blood: Crafting a Communal Constructive Theological Anthropology. This invitation only workshop will bring together sixteen racially and ethnically minoritized scholars and practitioners from all over North America to collectively innovate how theological anthropology is done.
