Workshops

OX-06 and CAM-06 ~ Creative Writing Workshop:  "The Self & the Search for Meaning Through Story" with Joy Jordan Lake

One of humankind’s primary ways of exploring questions of self and any kind of search for meaning beyond the self has been through the telling of stories, from spinning heroic epics to relaying historical events to crafting complex fictional characters, who, like us, are capable of tremendous compassion as well as unspeakable cruelty. This workshop will encourage--but not mandate--all participants to bring their own original stories, both creative nonfiction and fiction, for reading and receiving feedback. Whether you’ve only scrawled in a journal but have long intended to write more seriously, or whether you’ve been widely published, you are welcome.  We’ll celebrate one another’s current work, and also discuss helpful specifics for improvement.  Learning from one another and also enjoying the guest appearance of other published authors, we’ll consider how to explore meaning through our own stories--and how to craft stories that matter. 

After graduate theological studies, Joy Jordan-Lake earned both her master and doctoral degrees in English Literature.  Having worked as a journalist, minister, professor, and a Baptist chaplain at Harvard, she  is the author of five books, including Blue Hole Back Home (a novel), Why Jesus Makes Me Nervous: Top Ten Alarming Words of Faith; Working Families: Navigating the Demands and Delights of Marriage, Parenting and Career; Whitewashing Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe; and Grit & Grace: Portraits of a Woman’s Life.  With her husband and three children, she lives in Tennessee, where she writes and teaches part time at Belmont University.

 

 

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