UPCOMING WORKSHOPS:
DEAR YOU: WRITING LETTERS FROM THE HEART
In this creative writing workshop, we'll explore the power of hand-written letters. You'll use guided prompts and writing exercises that encourage heartfelt communication, whether to someone real, imagined, or to your future self. You will leave with at least a draft of a meaningful, hand-written letter and the inspiration (and materials) to send it in the mail in time for year-end holidays.
November 22, 2025
10:30-12 noon
Skokie Public Library
free event, registration required
refreshments available!
In this creative writing workshop, we'll explore the power of hand-written letters. You'll use guided prompts and writing exercises that encourage heartfelt communication, whether to someone real, imagined, or to your future self. You will leave with at least a draft of a meaningful, hand-written letter and the inspiration (and materials) to send it in the mail in time for year-end holidays.
November 22, 2025
10:30-12 noon
Skokie Public Library
free event, registration required
refreshments available!
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Led by award-winning journalists, expert editors, and master storytellers, this program will offer an unparalleled opportunity to bridge disciplines, drawing on anthropology’s deep ethnographic traditions and investigative journalism’s fearless pursuit of truth.
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School for Advanced Research
Santa Fe, New Mexico
private workshop series with SAPIENS magazine
co-led by Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein and Chip Colwell
