Deep and Wide: Longform Prose Revision 09 July 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.
Apart, and Yet a Part, a workshop with Michael N. McGregor 01 June 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 an Age of Anxiety, a workshop with Sara Billups 15 June 2026 Venue: Collegeville Institute Categories: Writing Workshop 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.
Publishing for the Public with Katelyn Beaty 25 June 2026 Venue: Collegeville Institute Categories: Writing Workshop In this workshop, Brazos Press editorial director and author Katelyn Beaty will speak to the public dimensions of writing in the Internet era, looking at how writers can effectively share their work online as well as how online spaces shape, … Read more >
Writing with the Mystics: A Generative Fiction Workshop with Garth Greenwell 13 July 2026 Venue: Collegeville Institute Categories: Writing Workshop 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.
Poetry, Scripture, & Imagination: A Workshop for Preachers with Amy Peterson 27 July 2026 Venue: Collegeville Institute Categories: Writing Workshop In this workshop, Amy Peterson will draw from her experience as a preacher and writer — 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.
Grounded by Place/Growing through Time with Camille T. Dungy 05 August 2026 Venue: Collegeville Institute Categories: Writing Workshop In this generative workshop, we will work on bringing life and depth to our writing by conveying compelling connections to the patterns and textures of the living world. Thinking in communion with some of the sample texts we will read during our time together, we will spend our time building work that engages with ecological thought and practices.
Apart, and Yet a Part 02 March 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.
About Me, About You: a writing workshop by and for women of color 15 March 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.
Pastoral Writing: for the church, the world, and the pastor at the Collegeville Institute 21 June 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.
