Spiritual Writing Workshop

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In this class, we will work toward mastering technique, from dialogue to pacing, always keeping an eye on the larger questions of the genre—what is spiritual writing, what are its ethics and mores, what literary forms are best suited to telling spiritual tales, how does doing spiritual writing do work on our spiritual lives? Workshopping each other's pieces is the center of this class, so the central texts will be one another's writing. Working on the theory that one learns to write by reading, we will also study carefully examples of excellent spiritual writing