Date: 8 Wednesdays, April 23 - June 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Classroom 4A
Level: No prior experience is needed
Instructor: Dana Meachen Rau
Tuition: $215, Members save 10%
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Class Description

Are you a writer needing to carve out some creative time?
A non-writer who has always wanted to write?

An artist who wants to venture into a new medium?
This workshop is for you!

Once a week, we’ll pause from our personal and professional obligations to play with words, with a promise that we’ll repeat it as a habit. Each class, Dana will present an inspirational reading, image, or activity and we’ll discuss. We’ll let that prompt us to write for about 30 of uninterrupted time to see what bits of ourselves escape onto paper. Then we’ll reconvene and chat. We won’t critique each other’s work. Instead, we’ll offer encouragement and gratefulness for any bit of our voices and stories we’re willing to share.
No pressure, no judgment, and no homework. The practice of writing is just that—practice. Prompts lead to the discovery of ideas, emotions, characters, and other special bits. The hope is that you will find a comfortable, safe, and brave space that meets you where you are on your own unique journey as a writer.

Materials List
Journal and writing utensil (or laptop if preferred).

About the Instructor

With a degree in creative writing and art history from Trinity College, and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, Dana has taught at the University of Hartford, the Mark Twain House, the Connecticut Center of the Book, the Highlights Foundation, at conferences and arts centers, and from her studio at Whiting Mills in Winsted, CT.
Dana approaches the creative process with a sense of adventure, knowing that through experiment, and even accidents, unpredictable surprises emerge. She works in fiber and felting, paint and collage, and alcohol ink. And over her 30-year writing career, she has written about 350 picture books, nonfiction, and biographies for children.

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Email: danameachenrau@gmail.com