Susan M. Tiberghien

"Writing Our Stories: from Journal to Essay to Memoir" All of us have stories to write and to share. In the morning we will find seeds for stories in our journals. In the afternoon we will shape our stories into personal essays and see how they fit togehter into mosaic-like memoirs.

"A Writing Life / A Creative Live" This workshop will focus on deepening our creativity through writing. We will write journal entries to find the images that resonate. We will follow the images, letting them unfold our stories and writing in whatever genre comes naturally.

"Seeing Beauty with Words" We will let beauty lead us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and of our place in the world. In contemplating beauty we are drawn inwards as if in a labyrinth. We will discover stillness and then return to the world around us with words to both celebrate and protect its daily beauty.

"Making Mosaics of Our Lives" We will look for living images in our dreams, memories, surroundings. Then for the patterns linking them together. We will dialogue with the images and shape them into journal entries, essays, stories, or poems, creating mosaics of our lives.

"Awakening Creativity" The focus of this workshop is on awakening our deeper creativity, on tapping into our creative source. As we unclutter the well within, our stories will start to overflow. We will shape them into journal entries, personal essays, short fictions, and prose poems.

02/14 Workshop, Writing Sudden Fiction: Short-Shorts and Flash Fiction, WICE, Paris

02/14 Reading, One Year to a Writing Life, Village Voice, Paris

02/15 Workshop, "Writing Our Stories: from Journal to Personal Essay", American Women's Group, Paris

02/16 Workshop, "Writing Our Stories: from Journal to Essay to Memoir", Shakespeare & Co, Paris

02/17 Reading, One Year to a Writing Life, Community Bookstore, Park Slope, Brooklyn

04/19 Workshop, "Writing Our Stories: from Journal to Essay to Memoir", IWWG, Chicago

04/19 Reading, One Year to a Writing Life, Transitions Bookplace, Chicago

04/20 Workshop, "Seeing Beauty with Words", CGJung Center, Evanston,IL

04/21 Reading, One Year to a Writing Life, East-West Bookstore, Mountain View, CA

04/23 Reading, One Year to a Writing Life, Keplers Bookstore, Palo Alto, CA

04/25-26 "Writing Our Stories: from Journal to Essay to Memoir", Reading and Workshop, Book Passage, Marin, CA

04/27 "Seeing Beauty with Words", CG Jung Institute, Boston

04/28 "One Year to a Writing Life", reading, Harvard Coop, Cambridge

04/29 Workshop and Reading, One Year to a Writing Life, Hudson Valley Writers' Center, NY

05/01 "Seeing Beauty with Words", Jung Society, Washington DC

05/03 "Writing Our Stories: from Journal to Essay to Memoir", The Writers' Center, Bethesda, MD

05/06 "A Writing Life / A Creative Life", lecture, Jung Institute, NYC

06/13-20/08: "The Mosaic of Creative Nonfiction", IWWG Conference, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
contact: Hannelore Hahn, dirhahn@aol.com, tel: 212 737 7536

07/01-05 Workshop "Awakening Creativity", Paris Writers' Workshop, Paris, France

Workshops are held 10:00-4:30 at the Geneva Press Club unless otherwise indicated. The morning workshops follow the indicated themes. The afternoon workshops are critiquing workshops.

01/12/08: Writing Dialogue (in both fiction and nonfiction)

02/02-03/08: Writing Our Stories, from Journal to Essay to Memoir (Geneva Writers'Conference, Webster University)

03/15/08: Poetic Prose; Rrose Poetry

05/17/08: Writing Memoir as Mosaic

06/07/08: Rewriting and Publishing

09/22/08: Personal Essay (Opinion and Travel Essays)

10/19/08: Short Shorts and Flash Fiction

12/14/08: Awakening Creativity


contact: Geneva Writers' Group
www.genevawritersgroup.org