Two hours every week saturated in creativity and community.
Come together this winter with a writing group from around the country.
Come together this fall with a writing community from around the country.
Half day workshop to churn the soil in our notebooks.
Come together with a writing group from around the country this spring.
Come together with a writing group from around the country this winter.
8 week online writing group. Every session braids generative writing with mindfulness practices.
Join a supportive community of writers this spring as you weave together a short nonfiction essay. Guest author Carol Barrett will join us May 11 to discuss Pansies, 2020 Oregon Book Award finalist.
Natalie Goldberg will read from her latest book Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku in a virtual event on Tuesday, February 2, 2021.
Keep the pen moving this winter in the company of a supportive writing community.
Build a strong foundation for your writing practice over ten weeks this fall.
4-week dive into writing practice. Prompts given examine this vivid moment we’re living and offer reflection on life memories.
Find community and structure in this 6-week online writing group that braids meditation with small group writing and discussion.
Spring 2020: Spend six week unpacking the stories of your life while building key writing skills.
Winter 2021: 5-night writing retreat in Havana, Cuba.
FALL 2019 - SOLD OUT! SIGN UP BELOW FOR THE WAITLIST.
Deepen your writing practice within the support of a tight knit group and ten weekly meetings.
Sessions include discussion, prompt writing, and meditation. We’ll read two books and shorter works, as a way to inform your writing.
You’ll have the opportunity to submit 20 pages for feedback from the teacher. The pages can be part of a larger project or a selection of freewriting - your choice.
Meeting location and required texts delivered via email upon registration.
Tuesdays, September 10 - November 12 (10 sessions)
9:30 - 11:00 AM
Cost: $200
SIGN UP BELOW TO BE ON THE WAITLIST FOR THIS GROUP.
You will be notified by Monday, 9/9 if a spot has opened up.
Let's take writing practice from its usual place - at our desks and kitchen tables - out into the world. Each week, we'll meet at Drake Park to ground our work for the morning, then stroll to a location in downtown Bend to write.
SIT, WALK, WRITE
Writing is an act of deep observation in the world. The smell in the air at the change of seasons. The mind’s idiosyncrasies. Timeless gesture. When combined, meditation, slow walking, and writing serve as a virtuous feedback loop. Each practice calls forth an awakening to the moment. An image you receive during slow walking finds its way into a poem you write later that day. Insight gleaned in sitting meditation becomes fodder for your memoir.
This fall, spend a day with teacher Sarah Sennott Cyr learning tools to cultivate a mindful writing practice. All experience levels welcome. Bring fast writing pens and notebooks.
"Writing is a path to meet ourselves." - Natalie Goldberg
September 21, 2019, 9:30-4:00 (We will break for lunch together at a restaurant in town.)
Hawthorn Healing Arts, 39 NW Louisiana Ave, Bend, OR
$65
Natalie Goldberg's book Writing Down the Bones cracked open how the craft of writing was taught in our country. Each week we’ll study this classic text together, then apply the wisdom we glean to timed writing sessions.
Getting tossed away means not practicing. What tossed away looks like for me.