Susan M. Tiberghien

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My new book, ONE YEAR TO A WRITING LIFE, published by DaCapo, Perseus Books, is now available at your favorite local or online bookseller. I am grateful to Susan Schulman, my agent, and to Renee Sedliar, my editor.

The book includes twelve of my workshops, starting with "Journal Writing", and ending with "Writing the Way Home." Each chapter includes my teaching notes, along with examples from masters in each genre and with guided writing exercises.

It is my way of sharing what I have been bringing to my workshops over the past fifteen years. In October, I was on the east coast in the States to promote it. My first 'event' was at the Big Apple weekend, for the International Women's writing Guild, in NYC, on Sunday, Oct.14, "Meet the Authors". For more information check the site, www.iwwg.org

My first book, LOOKING FOR GOLD, is now in its third edtion, and was published in Italian, Cercando l'Oro this fall.

In Geneva, I continue to teach each month, workshops welcoming over fifty writers, and to direct the Geneva Writers' Group.

The Geneva Writers' Group was founded in 1993 to encourage English-language writers and promote all forms of creative writing. There are now 120 members, men and women, a vibrant network of supportive writers. We publish a biennial literary review, "Offshoots, Writing from Geneva". And we host the Geneva Writers' Conference every two years. The sixth conference brought together 185 writers from around the world including 15 instructors and panelists, February 2-3. Please check our website, www.genevawritersgroup.org

I will be in Paris February 14 with first a workshop at WICE and then a reading at Village Voice, and Feb 16, a workshop at Shakespeare and Co.

Then in April and May, I will give workshops and readings in Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington and NYC. Please click on Events for dates, places, and more information.

To close this home page, I would like to include excerpts from the introduction to my new book, 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. This book invites you to enter the way of writing. If you are well along the way, it will be a companion, offering both inspriation and instruction.

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...

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, instructions, comes from my trust in writing as a process. Each lesson moves forward with notes, examples, and excercises...While the lessons do build on one another, they can also be read in whatever order works best for you as you develop your own writing life...

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."