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The written word has long been a site of spirituality. Whether through poetry, fiction, or non-fiction, people have been expressing their relationship to the divine by writing for thousands of years. But this practice can seem out of reach for those of us who are not trained writers or theologians.

​In this series, three writers will present a path to writing as a spiritual practice. They will lead discussion, share their perspectives, and provide time for writing and sharing. The facilitators will be:

​April 9, 3:00 PM ET: Elizabeth Sutterlin, Finding beauty in poetry

​April 16, 3:00 PM ET: Lale Davidson, Creating worlds in fiction

​April 23, 3:00 PM ET: Judah LeBlang, Exploring the self in non-fiction

​You can register for one workshop, two, or all three. This event is pay-as-led.

Elizabeth Sutterlin is a poet and writer deeply interested in the relational and healing power of poetry. She draws frequent inspiration from the natural world, and can be found hiking through all manner of parks when she isn’t writing. Her poetry has been published in Sixfold and Short Edition. She works at an international nonprofit in Washington, DC.

Lâle Davidson is an author from New York. “Described as magic realism at its best,” Lâle Davidson’s novel, Blue Woman Burning, was published by Emperor Books in 2021. Her flash fiction-prose poetry collection Strange Appetites won the Adirondack Center for Writing’s People’s Choice Award in 2016 and was recently re-issued. Her latest novel, Against the Grain, about two activists during Redwood Summer 1990, racing to save 2000-year-old redwoods from the rapacious appetite of a hedge fund operator, is due out April 19. Distinguished Professor of writing at SUNY Adirondack, she received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2017. More information and links to published work at Laledavidson.com.

Judah Leblang is a writer, teacher, and storyteller in Boston. He is a regular columnist for Bay Windows, Boston's LGBT weekly newspaper, and the author of two memoirs: Finding My Place (Lake Effect Press, 2012) and Echoes of Jerry (Red Giant Books, 2019). He has performed his one-man shows at Fringe Festivals in the US and Canada, including Chicago, Minneapolis, and Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary. Judah teaches memoir and nonfiction writing at GrubStreet in Boston, and at Literary Cleveland in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.