News from the Collegeville Institute

Read all about what’s happening at the Collegeville Institute. In this section of the website we share opportunities of interest, news about what’s going on at the Collegeville Institute, alumni news, and updates on our artists in residence.

Collegeville Institute welcomes Andrew McNeil as its new Director of Communications.
March 11, 2025Collegeville Institute

The Collegeville Institute (CI) is pleased to announce Andrew McNeil as the new Director of Communications for CI. 

McNeil brings over eight years of experience in digital marketing, public affairs, and strategic communication, which helps reinforce CI’s commitment to bringing people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives together and fostering healing through the power of religious ideas, insights, and ...
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Meet a Resident Scholar
March 11, 2025Collegeville Institute

As part of our Meet a Resident Scholar series, today we'd like to introduce you to Rev. Danae Ashley. Danae is a Priest and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist from the Episcopal Church in Everett, WA. While in-residence, she is working on "The Ministry of Presence: Holistic Healing in Mental Health through the ...
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Meet a Resident Scholar
March 4, 2025Collegeville Institute

As part of our Meet a Resident Scholar series, today we'd like to introduce you to Alicia Forde. Alicia is a Director at the International Office, UAA in Boulder, CO. While in-residence, she is working on Violence, Mercy, and Building the Kin-dom. For more information about all our program participants, please visit https://collegevilleinstitute.org/.../upcoming-scholars

Since 2006, a centerpiece of the Collegeville Institute has been the Ecclesial Literature Project (ELP). We’ve hosted over 140 writing workshops, in which participants have written sonnets and revised memoirs. They’ve pressed paragraphs into the service of activism. They’ve written with illuminating insight about prayer; they’ve written with charity about long-dead parents; they’ve ...
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Collegeville Institute receives two-year, almost $1.2 million grant from the Lilly Endowment
August 30, 2024Collegeville Institute
The Collegeville Institute is pleased to announce the award of a two-year, almost $1.2 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to continue the comprehensive program Words Making Worlds: The Ecclesial Literature Project.
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Writing for Mystic Activists meets at Collegeville Institute
August 1, 2024Collegeville Institute
From July 10-16, the Collegeville Institute hosted Writing for Mystic Activists, a workshop facilitated by Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove.
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Apart, and Yet Apart workshop wraps up
June 28, 2024Collegeville Institute
From June 5-14, the Collegeville Institute hosted ten writers of various genres in Apart, and Yet Apart.
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About Me, About You workshop meets in NYC
May 8, 2024Collegeville Institute
From April 22-28, the Collegeville Institute hosted ten writers in About Me, About You, a writing workshop by and for women of color, led by Roohi Choudhry.
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