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.
Pop-Up Writing Workshop, March 29, 2025 (Birmingham-Vestavia Hills, AL) Mar 29th, 2025 | 10:00 am Venue: The Threshold Center, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church Categories: Writing Workshop Join us for this pop up writing workshop.
Pop-Up Writing Workshop, March 22, 2025 (Colorado Springs, CO) Mar 22nd, 2025 | 10:00 am Venue: St. Michael's Episcopal Church Categories: Writing Workshop Join us for this pop up writing workshop.
Waiting for Words: An Advent Writing Workshop with Lauren Winner Dec 9th, 2024 Venue: Avila Center for Community Leadership Categories: Regional Workshop, Writing Workshop Waiting and generating; patience and urgency—these are all ingredients to the writing 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. Registration is closed: all workshop spaces have been filled.
Regenerate Your Spirit, Generate New Writing Nov 9th, 2024 | 8:30 am Venue: St. Placid Priory Categories: Regional Workshop, Writing Workshop Breath, rhythm, movement, deep listening—these are the skills fundamental to writing that are often ignored. Inspired by Genesis 1:2: “And the breath of God swept over the face of the waters,” this workshop will immerse participants in exercises that can help writers transform “wild and waste” into form and beauty. Guided breathing, movement, rhythm, and listening experiences will flow into related writing opportunities. Join us at Regenerate Your Spirit, Generate New Writing to refresh your spirit, create fresh work, true your voice, and deepen your writing practice. Registration is closed: all workshop spaces have been filled.
Healing Stories Oct 26th, 2024 | 9:00 am Venue: Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Harrisville Room Categories: Writing Workshop Writing and Yoga are two powerful, transformational spiritual practices that can bring us closer to God, ourselves, and each other. As a writer and yoga teacher, Ellie Roscher loves to pair writing, breath and movement in a way that invites … Read more >
Writing for Mystic Activists Jul 10th, 2024 Venue: Collegeville Institute Categories: Writing Workshop For faith-rooted activists and clergy who want to engage writing as a contemplative practice. The application deadline has passed.
Writing Toward God: The Sacred for the Perplexed Mar 5th, 2024 | 5:00 pm Venue: Virtual Workshop Categories: Virtual Workshop Series, Writing Workshop Feeling stuck, perplexed, timid, or fearful about writing about God/The Sacred directly? You’re not alone. While 19th-century theologians challenged the view of God as a supernatural Person, that view still dominates popular Western imaginations (fundamentalist, atheist, and liberal). To re-envision God/The Sacred for our time, we need to follow visionary poets and storytellers. Inspired by modern and contemporary writers who approach God/The Sacred in unexpected ways, we’ll explore writing not about but toward God/The Sacred.
