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| Women and Memoir: Expanding Frontiers-Pushing Boundaries |
| A 'retreat' and workshop for women writers/October 2008 |
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| "To enter a writing space with Mary Kay and Denise is to embark on a creative journey challenging heart, mind and soul - with pen in hand. Their leadership is stellar - from rigor in exercises to clarity in editing, engaging us all with gracious encouragement and infectious humor. What a gift!" |
| Shoonie Hartwig, Roseville, Minnesota |
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| "In a prior class, Mary Kay helped me find my writer’s voice. In Women and Memoir she and Denise pushed me past self-imposed boundaries and expanded the options of what I could share. Mary Kay and Denise are a winning pair - skilled, insightful, nurturing and funny." |
| Carol Tershak, West Des Moines, Iowa |
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| "The workshop created a place and a space for writing. The workshop had a "retreat" feeling: we stayed in a charming boutique hotel, ate well, looked at beauty out of every window ... and wrote, wrote, wrote. The workshop was designed to give us a physically comfortable and almost luxurious environment ... so that we could push ourselves intellectually and emotionally. We did. A highlight was a voluntary reading on the last night. We decamped to a small lodge next to the Mississippi. As dark fell we read our works to each other in front of a blazing fire. The subjects of each person's memoir came alive; it capped an intense and effective four-day workshop." |
| Michelle J. Foster, Paeonian, VA |
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| And for any of you who’ve been in one of my classes, I share this from A Memoir of My Spiritual Journey, a class I offer each winter at Plymouth Congregational Church. |
| "Since your class I see every event in my life in 175 words. It really puts a lot of things in the right size box." |
| Jim Saul, Des Moines |
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Dates will be set soon for the 2009 A Memoir of My Spiritual Journey at Plymouth Congregational Church. Check back soon, clicking on speaking, workshops for details. |
