5th Annual Writer's Retreat

Pearlstone Conference Center 5425 Mt. Gilead Road Maryland, DC 21136 202-777-3268 Date: from 8/5/2007 4:30 pm to 8/8/2007 4:30 pm (Eastern Time) Hosted By: Jewish Living & Learning Open University Jean Graubart at 202-777-3268 jeang RSVP by: July 18, 2007 at 5:00 pm (Eastern Time) Preserving Your Story: Feed Your Spirit, Tell Your Tale

Share magical days with the guidance of a short story/memoir writer and a poet/visual artist. In this workshop, the agenda is to stimulate the creative process, sharpen language and get the story out . This will be an interactive workshop utilizing as many of the senses as possible in order to open up the writer inside. In a warm, welcoming and safe environment, you will learn to take words and use them in your memoirs, journals, poems, short stories and personal correspondence.

Program Leaders:

Faye Moskowitz: is the best-selling author of A Leak in the Heart, Peace in the House: Tales From a Yiddish Kitchen and Her Face in the Mirror. She is a professor in the English Department at The George Washington University.

Miriam Mörsel Nathan: is a poet as well as a visual artist. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Gargoyle; Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture; The Bitter Oleander; and The Breath of Parted Lips, Volume 2 (CavanKerry Press, Ltd. 2004).

Michelle Brafman's fiction has appeared in various journals and has been nominated for inclusion in Best New American Voices anthology. She won the 2006 F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest and the 2006 Lilith Fiction Contest. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University M.A. in Writing Program.