VenueWilkins School Community Center 

Date03/28/2015 

Time10:00 AM - 12:00 PM  

Event TypeWorkshop 

GenreMultigenre 

Sponsor 

Cost $100.00
 

Description and Reader Names: Saturdays 10am-12pm February 28th – April 4th (6 sessions) $100

Are you ready to get your story down on paper? Afraid you don’t have enough time or talent? You’ll find plenty of both by beginning—one memory at a time—because we are all innate storytellers. In this workshop, the circumstances of your life will spark the narrative process; your life experiences become the raw material for surprise and self-discovery. The process of writing about ones’ peak experiences, crises, family, friends, teachers, work, home, travels, illnesses, pets or passions unlocks hidden meanings and truths. Perhaps you’d like to leave a legacy for your loved ones. We will use techniques and prompts from sources as diverse as Cartoonist Lynda Barry to Psychoanalyst Ira Progoff. We will use poems and short fiction to help you access the images and words waiting to be written. All genres and writing levels, including self-professed non-writers, are welcome! Bring a notebook.

Register with the WSCC by February 20th. Direct questions to Laurie McMillan: writelife1@hotmail.com or Sheila Kelly: sheilakelly.writes@yahoo.com

Laurie McMillan is a writer and nurse, who found passion as a certified therapeutic writing facilitator. She facilitates creative and therapeutic writing workshops in: art galleries, libraries, hospitals, nature centers, schools, yoga centers, shelters, and churches. The transformative nature of writing in groups gives people an uncommon opportunity to build a sense of community while sharing the creative process. Laurie's published in: Healing Muse, Loyalhanna Review, RN Magazine, Voices in the Attic and Dionne's Story and she’s the founder of the Squirrel Hill Pittsburgh Writers' Studio and a member of Madwomen in the Attic's writing workshops.

Sheila Kelly is a retired psychotherapist who received her M.A. in Psychology at Duquesne University. She has volunteered with gifted middle school writers for a decade and published their best writing in the annual, St. Bede's Quill. Sheila believes that a writing practice entails much more than the act of writing. It means building and nurturing a community of writers. A published poet, she is a member and regular facilitator of the Pittsburgh Writers' Studio, as well as a member of the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange and the Madwomen in the Attic poetry workshops. Three of Sheila's plays received staged readings at the 2009 Pittsburgh Three Rivers Arts Festival.

Primary Contact PersonWilkins School Community Center 

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Telephone412) 244-8458 

Websitehttp://http://www.wsccpgh.org/classes.htm 

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Is this an open mic event? No 

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Address 17604 Charleston Avenue, Swissvale, PA 

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CitySwissvale 

StatePA 

Zip15218 

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Primary Contact PersonPatty Doody 

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Telephone412-244-8458 

Websitehttp://www.wsccpgh.pgh 

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