2024-2025 Writing Programs Apart, and Yet A Part Apart, and Yet A Part June 9-18, 2025 Collegeville Institute 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: Monday, January 20, 2025. Deep and Wide: Longform Prose Revision July 9-18, 2025 Writing Workshop with Lauren Winner July 9-18, 2025 Collegeville Institute 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. Writing Toward God: The Sacred for the Perplexed Writing Toward God: The Sacred for the Perplexed January 30, 2024 Virtual 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. The Sacred Ordinary The Sacred Ordinary February 24, 2024 Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Harrisville Room Writing and Yoga are two powerful, transformational spiritual practices that can bring us closer to God, ourselves, and each other. In this one day writing workshop, Ellie will lead participants through simple breath work, body movement, writing prompts and discussion to unlock and explore our bodies as writers. About Me, About You About Me About You April 22-28, 2024 General Theological Seminary This generative writing workshop will bring together women 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. Writing for Mystic Activists Waiting for Mystic Activists July 10-16, 2024 Collegeville Institute For faith-rooted activists and clergy who want to engage writing as a contemplative practice. The application deadline has passed. Healing Stories Healing Stories October 26, 2024 Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Harrisville Room 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 us to inhabit our bodies and experience deeper embodiment. In this one day writing workshop,... Regenerate Your Spirit, Generate New Writing Regenerate Your Spirt, Generate New Writing November 9, 2024 St. Placid Priory 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. Waiting for Words: An Advent Writing Workshop with Lauren Winner Waiting for Words: An Advent Writing Workshop with Lauren Winner December 9-14, 2024 Avila Center for Community Leadership 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.
