Status: Places available
What is it? A writing workshop to explore how writing can act as a healing force after experiencing a loss.
Details: The practice of writing can provide an opportunity to create meaning through language and community, and can act as a healing force after experiencing a loss. In this workshop, open to writers of all levels and genres, we will read samples of literary art with the intention of understanding another person’s process and the hope it might bring. Each week, students will receive a brief reading packet and a prompt which will challenge us to express ourselves without worrying about the ultimate form of our creativity. Our goal will be to support fellow writers who are moving through their own grieving process, to provide a listening community, and to encourage everyone to discover where to take their writing next.
Next start date: To be announced
Course details: Six sessions, (12 hours of class)
Cost of program: $300
Group size: 8 people
Instructor: Caroline Goodwin
Born and raised in Anchorage, Caroline Goodwin moved to the San Francisco Bay Area from Sitka, Alaska in 1999 to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry. Her nonfiction piece “The Money Place” won the under the gum tree creative nonfiction contest in 2020 and was recorded as part of Stories on Stage. She is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Matanuska, (Aquifer Press, Wales, UK); from 2014 – 16 she served as the first Poet Laureate of San Mateo County; she lives on the California coast with her two pugs, Jimi Hendrix and Lyric.
