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Flesh and Blood: Crafting a Communal Constructive Theological Anthropology
Flesh and Blood: Crafting a Constructive Theological Anthropology
May 27-30, 2025 Collegeville Institute
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.
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Apart, and Yet a Part
Apart, and Yet A Part with Michael N. McGregor
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.
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A Sparked Imagination
A Sparked Imagination with Lauren Winner
June 23-27, 2025 Collegeville Institute
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.
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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.
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The Release: How Writing in an Economy of Gifts Liberates Writers
The Release: How Writing in an Economy of Gifts Liberates Writers
September 29, 2025
Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, will offer a virtual workshop based on her most recent book The Release: Creativity and Freedom After the Writing is Done. Join us on zoom Monday, September 29, 2025, from 6:00–7:30pm Central Time.
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Fifty Pairs of Eyes: Creating Characters in Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry
Fifty Pairs of Eyes: Creating Characters in Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry
October 27-November 1, 2025
Applications due: The application deadline for this workshop has passed. Venue: Roslyn Conference and Retreat Center, Richmond, VA Theological Horizons, a non-profit ministry located in Charlottesville, Virginia, is partnering with us on this workshop. Thanks to a generous grant from the Lilly Endowment, this workshop is fully funded for accepted applicants. Transportation is the responsibility...
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Waiting for Words: An Advent Writing Workshop with Lauren Winner
Waiting for Words: An Advent Writing Workshop with Laruen Winner
December 2-6, 2025 St. Francis Springs Prayer Center
Waiting and generating; patience and urgency—these are all ingredients to the writing life, and, indeed, to the spiritual 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. Some of our time will be devoted to being creatively nourished through short readings, and through engagement with visual art, music, and other artistic media; some of our time will be devoted to generative writing exercises. Some of our time, we'll be together in a group; some time, in solitude. Arrive looking for inspiration and nourishment, ready to write and to listen to the Spirit. Writers of all levels welcome.
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Writing in the Wilderness: reflecting on the immigration stories that have shaped our lives (March 2026)
Writing in the Wilderness: reflecting on the immigration stories that have shaped our lives – led by Isaac Villegas
March 2-7, 2026 Redemptorist Renewal Retreat Center
We’re living through an era of displacement, of dislocation. People are on the move in search of safety, of belonging—wandering in unfamiliar lands, in cultural and political wildernesses, looking for communities to call home. This workshop will focus on our experiences of migration and the God who wanders with us. Some of us have left...
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Reading and Writing with Joan Didion (a workshop with Alissa Wilkinson), March 16-22, 2026
Reading and Writing with Joan Didion (a workshop with Alissa Wilkinson)
March 16-22, 2026 Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club
Joan Didion often said that the way a writer says things is even more revealing than what they say. What can we learn about the work of writing from her? In this workshop, we’ll devote a week to Didion’s work, particularly concentrating on her essays, discovering the ways she approached specific craft challenges. We’ll practice close reading of Didion’s work. We’ll write. And we’ll workshop our work. (The work we’ll workshop will be work we generate during our time together — participants will not circulate already-written work ahead of time.) Long-standing devotees of Didion and those new to her work are warmly welcome!
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Writing in the Wilderness: reflecting on the immigration stories that have shaped our lives (May 2026)
Writing in the Wilderness: reflecting on the immigration stories that have shaped our lives – led by Isaac Villegas
May 15-19, 2026 Saint Francis Springs Prayer Center
We’re living through an era of displacement, of dislocation. People are on the move in search of safety, of belonging—wandering in unfamiliar lands, in cultural and political wildernesses, looking for communities to call home. This workshop will focus on our experiences of migration and the God who wanders with us. Some of us have left...
