Instructor: Marilyn McEntyre, PhD
The slightly paradoxical task of maintaining real humility while also finding ways to write with authority can raise deep questions about how we invite the Spirit to speak through us, work with us, and give us confidence, and how we understand and use our gifts. In this session we'll look at how writing in an environment of pervasive commodification and not a little pretension poses a vigorous challenge to the values we hope to maintain as human beings who are hoping to make our writing humane.
Each online workshop in this series will address a particular topic in writing, especially for those interested in personal essays and/or responses to public life. We will talk about language, faith, form, and what a lively, committed writing life entails.
Registration Fee: General $25/ Reduced $10/ Student Free
Location: online zoom
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):
October 7, 2023: Getting to Know your Narrative Self
November 4, 2023: Humor Helps
January 6, 2024: Playing with Prompts
February 3, 2024: Playing with Patterns (Archetypes)
March 2, 2024: Relational Writing
April 6, 2024: Self-Editing
May 4. 2024: Authority and Humility