27th Annual Writers' Intensive

With Deena Metzger

May 23-29, 2026

On Zoom


The 27th Writers' Intensive is coming soon. This year, so far, 6 writers who I have mentored will be bringing extraordinary work into the world, novels, poetry, memoir, plays. There are several more we expect to follow soon. Much of this work was visioned and developed at the Intensives.


Literature matters, especially now. Story, image and dreams, meaning and beauty teach us how to live and how to meet the challenges we face. Why not join this small group of gifted and aware community finding the words to speak to the world?


The Writers' Intensive on line meets from 9:30am - 9pm with long breaks for writing, meditation and meals. Read more here.

FEES, APPLICATION PROCESS, AND REGISTRATION:

The feefor the Intensive is based on a sliding scale for tuition. A deposit reserves a space once the application process is completed. Payment plans are possible under special conditions. Please contact Jude Weber  for more information.  


Send an excerpt from your current writing project and a letter of intention of no more than ten manuscript pages 1.5 spacing. Your letter could outline your background and interests and any other information, including dreams, that might be relevant to understanding how the week and the work might serve you and the world. Send the letter to Jude Weber and Deena Metzger via email. 

RECOMMENDED TEXTS 

To familiarize yourself with Deena’s work and concerns please read LoR and 19 Ways. Please also read some pieces posted on her website, or Desperate Love Letters to a Wounded Earth on Substack, or watch Deena's events and interviews on YouTube.


Or choose from her most recent writing: The Story That Must Not be Told; La Vieja: A Journal of Fire; the just reissued novel, What Dinah Thought; and the novels A Rain of Night Birds; The Other Hand; La Negra y Blanca; and Feral. Other books you might read are Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Healing; Ruin and Beauty: New and Selected Poems; Writing For Your Life and Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals.

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