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WelcomeThanks for visiting. I hope you will take a look at my recent book, ONE YEAR TO A WRITING LIFE, published by DaCapo Press (Perseus Books). It continues to do well, bringing lots of appreciative mail, and finding its way to writers' groups, writing centers, and colleges. The book includes twelve of my workshops, starting with "Journal Writing", and ending with "Writing the Way Home." Each chapter includes my teaching notes, examples from well-known authors and guided writing exercises. It's available in bookstores, also on line (click on the cover to the left.) Last year,I promoted the book with readings in Paris, Geneva, and across the States. Kepler's Bookstore in Menlo Park was a highlight, selling forty books and signing twenty more, putting the book on their best seller list for the week. As was the Harvard Coop Bookstore in Cambridge where fifty people gathered. The book was introduced with warm words, "Fifteen years of teaching lie behind Susan Tiberghien's carefully considered and companionable words...the book is, first to last, a total delight to read." A new review appeared in The Writer, December 2008: "The book leads you through examples, guided exercises and advice from both Tiberghien and familiar authors about how to begin, continue and complete your work. It's like having someone here with you every step of the way...Tiberghien is a Jungian, and she's spiritual, so she nudges you toward looking at the page, investigating your life and experiences. One Year is a book that you work your way into..." More good news includes the third edition of my first book, LOOKING FOR GOLD, and the Italian version, CERCANDO L'ORO, published by Moretti & Vitali. I dreamed this book at a writers' conference and signed the contract with Daimon Verlag on my sixtieth birthday. It's a memoir about one year in Jungian analysis, discovering that dreams also have seasons. In Geneva, I continue to teach workshops each month and to direct the Geneva Writers' Group. Founded in 1993 to promote all forms of creative writing, there are now 140 members, men and women, a vibrant network of supportive writers. We publish a biennial literary review, "Offshoots, Writing from Geneva". This coming winter, February 5-7, we will hold the Seventh Geneva Writers' Conference. For more information, please check our website, www.genevawritersgroup.org I also help direct the International Writers' Residency at the Château de Lavigny (between Geneva and Lausanne), the home of the late German publisher Heinrich Ledig-Rowohlt. Since 1996, we have been offering three week sessions during the summer months to twenty-five writers from around the world. Our website is, www.chateaudelavigny.ch To close this home page, I include a few excerpts from the introduction to ONE YEAR TO A WRITING LIFE. "Ask writers to define the writing life and you will get many answers. Annie Dillard says that it is "life at its most free." Julia Cameron says "the writing life is a simple life." For Stephen King, it's a "brighter, more pleasant place." From Brenda Ueland to John Gardner, writers have been offering counsel to encourage people to write. And all the words come back to one fundamental truth: a writing life is a creative life.... For me it has become a life that awakens to birdsong in early morning, that lingers with sunlight in late afternoon. For me it is a life that slows down to touch each moment, a life that deepens from an inner source. I was fifty years old when I started along the way. I had been writing letters, various papers, journal entries, but not thinking of myself as a writer. My life was full yet I longed for something more. Once I acknowledged that I wanted to be a writer, the well within me filled with fresh creativity... One Year to a Writing Life presents twelve workshops drawn from over fifteen years of teaching. The lessons dovetail inspiration and instruction. The first component, inspiration, comes from my trust in writing as a way of life. A trust nourished by practice.... The second component, instruction, comes from my appreciation of writing as a process. We sharpen our writing skills, clarify our thinking, and deepen our awareness of ourselves and of the world around us... There is a light within each of us, the light that we bring into the world. ONE YEAR TO A WRITING LIFE will lead you to this light. With your words, you become a light bearer in the world." |
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