LOCAL>> Writing for Health and Healing Retreat

Join Dominican University of California’s MFA in Creative Writing Program for a free virtual creative writing retreat.

The Writing for Health and Healing Retreat focuses on topics in narrative medicine, with writing workshops both days to inspire new work.

Retreat Schedule:

Saturday October 15

10:00-10:15 am PDT:  Welcome

10:30 am-12:00 pm:  Writing Workshops

Participants select a workshop during registration.

1. Fiction writing as a window into narrative medicine with Lise Saffran

2. Place and Time with Thomas Burke

3. Poetry and Tarot: An Immersive Writing Workshop with Allison Baldwin

4. Deliberate Celebration: A Poetry Workshop for Adoptees with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello

1:00-2:00 pm PDT:  Keynote Talk

Tell Me How It Ends: Narrative Curiosity and Lyric Insight with Katie Peterson

Sunday October 16

10:00-11:30 am:  Writing Workshops

Participants select a workshop during registration.

1. The Power and Peril of Words in Poetry and Medicine with Susana Praver-Perez

2. Shame, Rage and Writing with Claudia Morales

3. Self-Portraits with Susan Kelley Dewitt

4. Writing Place from Eight Imaginal Landscapes with Cindy Pavlinac

11:45 am – 12:15 pm:  MFA Information Session with Judy Halebsky

1:00 – 2:00 pm:  At the intersection of the arts and sciences. Readings by Bellevue Literary Press.

For a PDF of workshop descriptions and speaker bios, please visit the retreat Eventbrite page.