Right to Write, 11 am - 1 pm PT (March 2022 - February 2023)
Monthly Writing Workshops to Keep You On Track, Fueled Up, and Inspired
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RIGHT TO WRITE is a twelve-month writing workshop series. On the second Tuesday of every month, I’ll lead a two-hour, virtual writing workshop based on a theme -- from 11am - 1 pm PT. You’ll get a mini lecture from me about that theme, a ton of writing exercises you can use on your own again and again, camaraderie (the classes will be on video so we can see each other!), and – perhaps most important of all – accountability.
They say 99% of writing is just keeping your butt in the chair, just showing up and doing the work. But writing is also about not getting stuck in the same old ruts. It’s about experimenting. It’s about feeling so inspired you don’t mind getting up at five in the morning dark to write when everyone else in your household is still asleep. It’s about being part of a community of artists and writers and makers and dreamers trying to imagine our way to a better world.
Here's the schedule:
March 8, 2022: RESILIENCE
April 12, 2022: FORGIVENESS
May 10, 2022: ABSENCE & PRESENCE
June 14, 2022: STRANGERS & KIN
July 12, 2022: EMOTION
August 9, 2022: RHYTHM
September 13, 2022: TRANSITIONS
October 11, 2022: PAUSE
November 8, 2022: SHADES & SHADOWS
December 13, 2022: QUESTIONS
January 10, 2023: PLAY
February 14, 2023: AGENCY
We’ll meet in virtual space on the second Tuesday of every month from 2-4 pm Eastern/ 11 am-1 pm Pacific (which will be super early on Wednesday mornings for those of you in Australia). We’ll meet on Zoom, so you’ll be able to see everyone. The classes will be recorded, so if you miss one, you’ll be able to catch up.
I hope you’ll join us. Tell your friends about it, your writing group, your studio mates, your colleagues. I promise the workshops will inspire you, improve your writing skills, introduce you to new ways of thinking and creating and reading, and help you put creativity at the center of your life.
Your Instructor
Sarah Sentilles is a writer, teacher, critical theorist, scholar of religion, and author of many books, including Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn't Ours. Her book Draw Your Weapons won the 2018 PEN Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Oprah Magazine, The Atlantic, Ms., Religion Dispatches, Oregon ArtsWatch, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She earned a bachelor's degree at Yale and master's and doctoral degrees at Harvard.