Online / zoom

Instructor: Marilyn McEntyre, PhD

Series Description: 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!

This month: We write from our place on earth, our generational perspectives, and into the historical moment we inhabit. Paradoxically some of the most “timeless” writing is also faithful to the time in which it was written. We’ll explore this paradox and consider how your own and others’ writing may speak from and beyond your time and place.

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 Midwinter Light: Meditations for the Long Season.

First Saturday Writing Workshops 2025-26 Overview: Join this series every month or occasionally, as you are able. Handouts and writing exercises are different for every interactive workshop. Register for each workshop individually here.

May 2, 2026: Writing from Your Place and Time