Writing to Heal: The Wild Why Mini-Workshop

Class Description

Reconnect with your wonder & illuminate your writing process with NYT best-selling author Laura Munson.

Wonder is the combination of curiosity and awe that makes us feel alive and inspires writers to explore and reimagine the world around them. In this worry-filled world, we need our wonder, and our writing, more than ever.

In this workshop, best-selling author and founder of the acclaimed Haven Writing Retreats in Montana, Laura Munson will lead students through writing exercises to uncover wonder and inject it into their own writing.

Using Laura’s newly released teaching memoir The Wild Why: Stories and Teachings to Uncover Your Wonder as a guide, we will explore teaching-spirited stories and writing prompts, all centered on illuminating our true self-expression and the wonder it sparks.

In The Wild Why workshop, Laura will be leading writers through:

·       Reconnecting with themselves & their wonder

·       Using wonder to rekindle voice and expand creativity

·       Exploring their unique narrative

·       Learning the essential nature of scene-writing

Please note: This class is only available to current Writing to Heal Program students and alumni.

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LAURA MUNSON is a New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author. Her acclaimed works include the novel Willa’s Grove and the memoir This Is Not The Story You Think It Is. Laura is the founder of the renowned Haven Writing Retreats and her writing has appeared in publications such as Vanity Fair, Elle, Redbook, Time, Newsweek, the New York Times “Modern Love” column, The New York Times Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine, and many more. She has been featured on Good Morning America, The Early Show, WGN, NPR, London’s This Morning, Australia’s Sunrise, and other international media outlets. Laura lives and writes in Whitefish, Montana.