Preserving Your Story: Feed Your Spirit, Tell Your TaleShare magical days with the guidance of three creative minds. Participants will heighten their sensibilities to language and image through many forms of writing. The retreat is designed for individuals who have an interest in or a passion for writing. In a warm, welcoming, and safe environment, you will be taught to take words and use them in your memoirs, journals, short stories, poems and personal correspondence. Our facilitators welcome those who would like to begin their writing journey, as well as those who have already embarked on theirs. Program Leaders:Faye Moskowitz: is the best-selling author of A Leak in the Heart, Peace in the House: Tales From a Yiddish Kitchen and Her Face in the Mirror. She is a professor in the English Department at The George Washington University and chairman emeritus of the department. Miriam Mörsel Nathan: is a poet as well as a visual artist. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Gargoyle; Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture; The Bitter Oleander; and The Breath of Parted Lips, Volume 2 (CavanKerry Press, Ltd. 2004). Michelle Brafman’s fiction has appeared in various journals and has been nominated for inclusion in Best New American Voices anthology. She won the 2006 F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest and the 2006 Lilith Fiction Contest. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University M.A. in Writing Program, Michelle will be teaching creative writing at The George Washington University this fall. Sunday August 3 - Wednesday August 6Click here to register or contact Jean Graubart for more info at (202) 777-3268. Payment Information Discounted Member Price ($475) General Public ($575)Single Occupancy Supplement ($125)
Preserving Your Story: Feed Your Spirit, Tell Your TaleShare magical days with the guidance of three creative minds. Participants will heighten their sensibilities to language and image through many forms of writing. The retreat is designed for individuals who have an interest in or a passion for writing. In a warm, welcoming, and safe environment, you will be taught to take words and use them in your memoirs, journals, short stories, poems and personal correspondence. Our facilitators welcome those who would like to begin their writing journey, as well as those who have already embarked on theirs.
Program Leaders:Faye Moskowitz: is the best-selling author of A Leak in the Heart, Peace in the House: Tales From a Yiddish Kitchen and Her Face in the Mirror. She is a professor in the English Department at The George Washington University and chairman emeritus of the department.
Miriam Mörsel Nathan: is a poet as well as a visual artist. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Gargoyle; Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture; The Bitter Oleander; and The Breath of Parted Lips, Volume 2 (CavanKerry Press, Ltd. 2004).
Michelle Brafman’s fiction has appeared in various journals and has been nominated for inclusion in Best New American Voices anthology. She won the 2006 F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest and the 2006 Lilith Fiction Contest. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University M.A. in Writing Program, Michelle will be teaching creative writing at The George Washington University this fall.
Sunday August 3 - Wednesday August 6Click here to register or contact Jean Graubart for more info at (202) 777-3268.
Payment Information Discounted Member Price ($475) General Public ($575)Single Occupancy Supplement ($125)