Instructor: Thomas Larson
Date: Saturday, April 12
Time: 9:30-3:30 p.m.
Location: Marian University/Oldenburg Hall(formerly called St. Francis Hall) Room# 165 (Building #25 on the campus map)
Cost: $114 Nonmembers, $78 members, $66 student/teacher/senior members
Walk-in registrations are Welcome at Marian University- Click here for a campus map/parking pass.

Among the most necessary journeys these days for Americans is to heal from, or confront, the ravages of an illness—whether yours, someone you love, or someone who’s your patient.

To heal, more and more people are turning to writing about illness in book, article, essay, and journal. Our literature has grown abundant with stories about cancer, AIDS, heart disease, depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, eating disorders, PTSD, even soul sickness. Wounds as much physical as psychological. The acute and the chronic. The slow-developing, the long-lasting, the permanent. Treatments involving drugs, therapy, lifestyle changes, and diet.

Join Thomas Larson, author of The Sanctuary of Illness and The Memoir and the Memoirist, for a six-hour workshop, “Writing About Illness”.   This workshop is open to all, beginner to professional, writers, patients, and people in medicine. The illness, disease, or condition involves what the writer, a loved one, or a patient has suffered or is suffering.  I welcome physicians, nurses, mental and public health professionals, writers, scholars, and all those interested in the intersection of narrative, medicine, and healing.

Among the writing issues we cover: writing in the illness versus after, that is, during recovery; writing about those we love who are suffering an illness; sharing a difficult condition with others who cannot know what we’ve endured; and tailoring the writing to those with the ailment or to a broader audience.

The workshop also showcases readings from published illness narratives, handouts on narrative technique, annotated lists of illness memoirs, and more.

Register online or download and print a registration form.

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