Meet THE writer WITHIN
Register now for
WRITING TIME
A 6-week online course in Meditative Creative Writing.
This course will combine guided meditations, writing prompts, curated readings, and live instruction designed to enliven your writing process and open new channels to insight and inspiration.
You will be supportively guided to write what only you can write.
The course is suitable for beginning or advanced writers working in any genre. Can be taken live online or asynchronously. Thursday evenings, January 22-February 26,
7 p.m. EST/ 6 p.m. CST/ 4 p.m. PCT
Writers are time-travelers. Through memory, reflection, and imagination we can heal old stories and call in the understandings, timelines, and narratives that we need now. In this 6-week generative workshop, we will use time as a framework to explore creativity and consciousness through meditative writing. Each live class will include guided meditation and freewriting, and will be recorded for those who wish to attend asynchronously. Supportive for both beginning and experienced writers.
About your instructor
Rachel Jamison Webster is an award-winning author and professor of creative writing. She has taught at Northwestern University for 20 years, and has published five books and dozens of essays, poems, and articles. Her book of ancestral nonfiction Benjamin Banneker and Us was named a “Best Book of 2023” by The New Yorker and was an “Editor’s Pick” by The New York Times. Rachel’s book of poetry, Mary is a River, was written in the voice of Mary Magdalene and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her book The Sea Came Up & Drowned combines her collages and “mined” erasure poems to meditate on our extractive relationship to the earth. It has been turned into a choral symphony that will be performed by Donald Nally’s ensemble The Crossing in cities throughout the U.S. and globally in 2026.
Rachel has also practiced meditation for more than 20 years. She combines these practices in her teaching. Read more about Rachel and her process here.
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1:1 Guidance
Schedule one-on-one meetings for creative coaching, editorial guidance, and manuscript development.