Instructor: Marilyn McEntyre, PhD

These 90-minute workshops will address a different topic each month. Each session will include a brief presentation, prompts, a bit of writing and workshopping time, and suggestions for developing a particular writing practice. Handouts offer guides for cultivating new dimensions of your writing. We will talk about language, faith, form, and what a lively, committed writing life entails. All levels of writing experience are welcomed!

In this session, we'll reflect once again on the power of metaphors in making meaning and telling truth by looking at passages where metaphors invite the reader to reimagine the familiar in new terms.

Registration Fee: General $25/ Living Lightly $10/ Student Free

About Marilyn McEntyre: Dr. McEntyre, a longtime professor of literature and medical humanities, teaches for New College Berkeley and Westmont College, and is on the faculty of Western Seminary’s “Sacred Art of Writing” doctor of ministry program as well as the “Forest Dwelling” program at the Oblate School of Theology. She offers spiritual retreats and writing workshops and continues to write about spirituality, language, healthcare and earth care. She also works as a writing coach. Her recent books include When Poets Pray, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict, and a collection of Lenten readings, Where the Eye Alights.

The dates and topics for all First Saturday Writing Workshops are (register separately here - https://buytickets.at/newcollegeberkeley):

September 7, 2024: Reading Like a Writer

October 12, 2024: Letters to the World

November 2, 2024: Framing and Reframing

January 4, 2025: More about Metaphors

February 1, 2025: Poetry on Purpose

March 1, 2025: Writing Like a Weaver

April 5, 2025: A Well Spent Paragraph

May 3, 2025: Imagine if you will...