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a nine-month course with me and Callie Feyen
Hello, Poetry Friend
My mother was a Bible teacher, and she wanted me to write about faith. Therefore, I did not want to.
In college I learned how to write professionally. Got writing jobs. Wrote a blog. Wrote for a publisher. Wrote a book. Wrote poems nearly every day and hid them. Wrote another book. Wrote a Substack. Almost none of that writing was about faith.
And then, midway into my pilgrimage through life’s dark wood, I wanted a poetry collection. I’d already had my spiritual midlife crisis more than a decade before and gone Catholic. Some of my newer poems were about faith, but I kept them locked up tight.
I didn’t know how to write about what was most important to me. I needed support and guidance and freedom to write differently. I needed an intensive, multi-month course like Writing Faithfully, which I’ll be teaching with
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Callie and I are both Christians who love complicated Bible stories. We love poems about Jesus that don’t have a big ol’ bow that hides the hard beneath the pretty. And we both love to help writers craft their words so they can share them.
If you’ve always — or never — wanted to write about faith, please consider joining us for Writing Faithfully, meeting online.
Happy poeming!
Megan