Writing As A Wisdom Project
A day-long writing workshop with Catherine Gammon
Friday January 23, Truro Public Library, 9:30-5:30
*Please sign up at the circulation desk or call the library at 508-487-1125.
Combining meditation in the Zen tradition with the practice of imaginative writing, this workshop invites intimate and creative study of the mind. Engaging playfully with language, we will write together from prompts and read aloud, listen, and respond to one another’s words. Our writings and responses are explorations, and our conversations are based in imaginative insight rather than craft or critique. The day is appropriate for participants at any level of literary experience. Meditation guidance will be offered as needed.
Please bring paper and pens to write with, even if you are accustomed to composing on a keyboard (and leave your computer at home). Please arrive when the library opens at 9:30. We will begin promptly at 9:45. We will take a break for lunch and everyone is encouraged to bring something to share with others. The day will end at 5:30.
Bio note--Catherine Gammon is a fiction writer and Soto Zen priest. She is the author of the novels Sorrow (Braddock Avenue Books, 2013) and Isabel Out of the Rain (Mercury House, 1991), and her shorter fiction has appeared in literary journals for many years. Before beginning residential Zen training, Catherine served on the faculty of the MFA program of the University of Pittsburgh. In 1977-78 and 1981-82 she was a Fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is living this year in North Truro.