Workshops
Writers Groups
Seminars
The Lutheran Writers Project began at the Lutheran Festival of Writing
at Luther College in November of 2007. In coming months and years, we’re looking forward to another national festival (Luther has suggested 2010), as well as local and regional
workshops, retreats, and author events. For information on Luther College's plans for the 2010 conference, please email Carol Gilbertson at gilbertc@luther.edu. If you know of local or regional events, or would like to sponsor one, please contact Paul Shepherd at paul@paulkshepherd.com
The events and gathering opportunities listed below are either sponsored in some way by the
Lutheran Writers Project or are events sponsored by others but of
special interest to our project.
We're beginning with a group, the
Lutheran Writers Project Group, on Google, where you can sign up to begin meeting each other, finding common interests, and building new groups.
A number of Lutheran Writers Project authors are getting together at the
Associated Writing Programs conference in Chicago, February 11-14, 2009. We'll be sponsoring a table at the bookfair where Lutheran Writers Project books will be sold, and look for details on a reception and maybe reading or panel discussion. If you'd like to be involved, check in at the Lutheran Writers Project website regularly, and email
paul@paulkshepherd.com
Among other suggested events we’re interested in developing and advertising (with your help!) are:
- Sermon Workshops in which pastors and seminarians can explore the roles of narrative and poetic techniques in sermon-writing.
- Local Writer Gatherings in which authors with local and Lutheran connections can find each other.
- Lutheran Publication Workshops for writers interested in learning more about Lutheran-sponsored publication needs and opportunities.
- Literature and Theology Seminars for writers and readers interested in learning about Lutheran themes in their own creative writing or the writings of others.
- Gatherings of Lutheran college student writers.
