Finding My Introvert
I cannot remember the exact moment of recognition, but I think it occurred early afternoon on the second full day of our writing workshop. I rediscovered time.
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Thimbleberries
Thimbleberries were not on my mind when I applied for a writing workshop at the Collegeville Institute. I wanted time set apart from the busyness and business of everyday life. I wanted a view of a lake, fenced-in by maple trees. I wanted to be in a community where I felt the ease of saying, Yes, I am a writer.
Suspended Sentences
Ingrid Rasmussen drafted this piece as an exercise in writing suspended sentences, while participating in the writing workshop Words that Sing II: Advanced Writing with Mary Nilsen.
Posts, Tweets, Blogs, and Faith: Writing for the Digital Public Square
This week we said goodbye to our last writing workshop group—Posts, Tweets, Blogs, and Faith: Writing for the Digital Public Square.
The Bells of St. John’s
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell reflects on her week-long writing workshop at the Collegeville Institute.
Poetry, Prose and Prayer
We say goodbye this week to a great group of poets, novelists, and prose writers.
Writing to Change the World
The participants in our most recent writing workshop were committed to bearing witness to a Christian vision of justice and peace.
Deepening Words: Writing & the Spiritual Life
Lauren Winner returned this summer to lead the workshop Deepening Words: Writing and the Spiritual Life—A Week with Lauren Winner.
Apart, and yet a Part
This week we said goodbye to a dedicated group of writers, who worked independently but in community during their week at the Collegeville Institute.
A Broader Public: Writing on Religion for a Secular Audience
A feisty group of scholars, journalists, and pastor-writers just completed a writing workshop at the Collegeville Institute—A Broader Public: Writing on Religion for a Secular Audience—A Week with Religion Dispatches’ Editors and Author Elizabeth Drescher.
