Generative Writing Workshops
(Monthly)​

October Theme: Remembrance
October 16th at 10:00am – 12:00pm
In Person at the Orinda Community Church Fellowship Hall
10 Irwin Way, Orinda, CA 
(vaccine and masks required as suggested by the CDC )
​Space limited to 15 in-person writers.

 
​In this dynamic writing workshop, we will read and discuss poems and short prose pieces that celebrate life and give voice to loss in haunting, hopeful, and healing ways. Then, in a series of guided, writing exercises, suitable for prose writers (fiction and nonfiction) and poets, we will generate new work to help us honor and begin to reconcile the losses of the last several years.

Instructor: Mary Volmer is the author of two novels: Crown of Dust and Reliance, Illinois. Her essays, reviews, and short stories have appeared in various publications, including Mutha Magazine, The Common Politic, Women’s Basketball Magazine, Fiction Writers Review, Brevity, The New Orleans Review, and Ploughshares (online). She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Hedgebrook and was the spring 2015 Distinguished Visiting Writer in Residence at Saint Mary’s College, where she now teaches. She a co-founder of Alta Mesa Center for the Arts, an interfaith arts and spirituality hub, in the San Francisco Bay Area. www.maryvolmer.com

Alta Mesa Center for the Arts is an interfaith community of artists and spiritual seekers.
Wherever you are on your artistic and spiritual journeys, you are welcome here!

$30.00 suggested donation. You are welcome to donate more to support the community.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Register Here!