A Light in Winter: Creative Writing

Lift your winter in this beginning creative writing class that brings gratitude in all its complexity to consciousness. In four sessions, you’ll experience the writing process from start to finish and develop the universal meaning in a treasured personal story. You’ll learn about plot, description, character, and setting and read accomplished examples from others. Come reverence your story in writing and be transformed.

Instructor Kathleen Melin is a “Best of the Net 2023” nominee and author of By Heart: A mother’s story of children and learning at home (Clover Valley Press 2008).  Her creative work has appeared nationwide in literary magazines including Split Rock Review, The Baltimore Review, EssayDaily, Barstow and Grand, and internationally in Australia and England.  She has taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin Colleges, Summit School for the Arts, conferences, festivals, and farms.  She has a MFA from the University of Minnesota.

Skill Level: Beginner

Materials: Provided; Please bring your preffered writing materials (i.e. notebook, laptop)

Instructor: Kathleen Melin

Meets: Four 2-hour sessions, dates TBD