Location: Mohawk High School, 24 Ashfield Rd., Shelburne Falls, MA
Seize The Moment – A Meditative Writing Workshop
with Jan Cornall
Tuesday, July 15th
9:30am - 12:30pm
Location: Mohawk Regional School, Ashfield, MA. Meet at the front entrance and we'll go together to the room we'll use!
Cost: $30
Please contact the Tsegyalgar East Secretary at secretary@tsegyalgar.org with questions or to register.
Jan Cornall has been teaching writing since 1998. Drawing on over thirty years experience in the creative arts industry and twenty-five years in meditation, Jan has created a unique meditative writing technique for working with authors of all genres.
Her techniques have been used by hundreds of writers who have joined her writing retreats and workshops in Bali, Java, Laos, Cambodia, Fiji, Burma, Morocco, Paris, Hong Kong, as well as Sydney, Melbourne, and regional Australia.
In this workshop Jan will introduce you to techniques you can use in any genre at any stage of your writing. Observation methods, sense memory explorations, word play, voice and character experiments, intuitive structure and story mapping, are just some of the exercises Jan will use to take you deep into the creative source of your writing.
By taking the struggle out of the writing process and providing expert guidance, support and motivation Jan’s techniques produce startling results. Whether you use the present moment to take you into your writing or your writing to take you into the present moment, you are already on the way to enlightenment!
Bring your writing implements and a playful mind.
About Jan
Jan Cornall is a writer and performer based in Sydney, Australia. Awarded a number of grants and fellowships, she has written fifteen produced plays and musicals, a feature film, a novel, poetry collection, short stories and three CD’s of songs. With a strong interest in Asia, Jan has collaborated with Indonesian writers, musicians and artists since being awarded an Asialink residency in 2006, and taken part in festivals in the region including: Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (Bali), Utan Kayu Biennale (Jakarta), Hong Kong International Literary Festival and Irrawaddy Literary Festival( Burma). Jan teaches writing at University of Western Sydney and leads international writer's retreats and workshops with her company Writers Journey. www.writersjourney.com.au
Every year a number of writers working with Jan go on to publish with major publishing houses. They include: Marguerite Van Geldermalsen, Married To A Bedouin (Virago), Margaret Wilcox, Gone (Penguin), Catherine Therese, The Weight Of Silence (Hachette Livre), Margaret Stevenson Meere, The Child in The Lotus (Rockpool), Walter Mason, Destination Saigon (Allen & Unwin), Yvonne Louis, A Brush with Mondrian (Murdoch), Public Life Private Grief, Mary Delahunty (Hardie Grant), Niromi de Soyza, Tamil Tigress (Allen& Unwin), Jennifer Smart, The Wardrobe Girl (Random House): Biff Ward, In My Mothers Hands (Allen& Unwin). Established writers like Margo Lanagan also receive support from Jan’s workshops. Her more recent fantasy novels, Tender Morsels and Sea Hearts, are published by Allen & Unwin in Australia, Knopf - USA, David Fickling Books, UK. Murder mystery writer AD Scott (Simon &Schuster, USA) has received Jan’s support for Beneath The Abbey Wall and her upcoming novel The Low Road.
Visit Jan’s wesbsite at www.writersjourney.com.au about her exciting writing journeys.
