Online / zoom

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!

Metaphors, for good or ill, are powerful. They shape how we see what we see. In this session we’ll explore types of metaphor and some of the consequences of metaphorical choices.

Registration Fee: General Tuition $25/ "Living Lightly" Supported Tuition $15

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 the other summer First Saturday Writing Workshops are (register separately here):

October 4, 2025: More about Metaphor

November 1, 2025: "Occasional" Poetry and Prose

December 2025: No Workshop. Happy Holidays!

January 3, 2026: Gaps and Discontinuities

February 7, 2026: What Your Narrator Knows

March 7, 2026: Poetry As Practice

April 4, 2026: Literary Portraiture

May 2, 2026: Writing from Your Place and Time