The Body Chronicles: Writing Pain | Dec. 6-8, 2024

Join the Pacific MFA's next online weekend workshop in The Body Chronicles series, “Writing Pain,” Friday, December 6 – Sunday, December 8, 2024. For those three days, we welcome a host of facilitators, including MFA faculty poets Danusha Laméris and Mahtem Shiferraw, nonfiction alum Caroline Catlin, current MFA poet Joanne Godley, and special guest Ann Neumann, a Pulitzer Center grantee and author of The Good Death. Program director Scott Korb will also be doing some teaching.

“Writing Pain” will include craft talks, a seminar style discussion, co-led generative writing sessions, readings and Q&A from our facilitators, and many opportunities for conversation about crafting the various sites and experiences of pain, from the personal to the political, physical to psychological, embodied to imagined through our work. We welcome writers across all genres to register.

When:
• Friday, December 6 – Sunday, December 8, 2024 (on Zoom)
• 9am-5pm Pacific Time (with midday breaks)

Workshop Cost:
General registration: $350 for the three-day course
Pacific University community*: $175 for the three-day course

* MFA students and alumni and any other participants from within the University. To get the discount, please select "Pacific University Community" in the category section of the registration form and the discount will be applied to check out.

This programming has been made possible, in part, through contributions to the Amy Paterson ’18 Fund for Medical Narratives. If you’re interested in supporting the Body Chronicles beyond your registration, you may offer additionally here as well. Learn more about Amy Paterson '18, a program friend and brilliant writer.