Writing
2025 Writing Workshop with Louise Harrison Lepera
Mind Spirit Memory: Contemplative Memoir Writing for Everyone
Let’s experiment with writing short memoir fragments and essays together! Life is full of rich experiences and influences on our human spirit-–families, friends, ancestors, our education, our spiritual experiences, the natural environment around us, and the cultures we move through. Exploring these legacies creatively in a warm supportive group can help us understand ourselves, and our world, more deeply. The brief shared readings and writing prompts in this group may help you generate material for a longer creative project, allow you space to reflect on formative moments in your life, or just provide thought-provoking creative puzzles to play with. No reading or writing is required outside of our two-hour sessions, but there will be extra resources available for people who want to extend and enrich their reading and writing time. Everyone is welcome!
Louise Harrison Lepera believes that doing art for fun is an essential part of a well-lived life. She has taught writing at MIT since 2002, where her favorite class is always “Reading and Writing Autobiography.” No matter where she is teaching, Louise fosters a warm and supportive community, and she loves to work with writers and non-writers of all kinds on getting started, getting unstuck, and finding their own unique voices. Previously, Louise has volunteered as a UU youth camp counselor at Ferry Beach in Maine; she is excited to graduate to the “grown-up camp for adults” at Star Arts!
What to bring or wear:
Bring a notebook and pens or pencils.