Deepen your prose and enlighten your process at BWBH’s mindful MasterCraft Writing BEtreat® on Saturday, September 30 at 9am - 5pm. Join us at our serene space on 12 acres in Concord, MA for top-notch writing workshops, literary inspiration, wellBEing practices, nature engagement and compassionate conversation. Masterful mindful writing teachers Whitney Scharer and Lara Wilson share insights that inspire authentic storytelling and lend clarity to your writing process. Lara also guides nature immersion and mindful creativity practices to boost wellBEing.
TENTATIVE ITINERARY
Saturday, September 30:
9:00-9:30am Warm Welcome
9:30-10:00am Mindful Moment with Lara
10-11:30am The Inspired Writing Life with Whitney
11:30-12:30pm Catered Gourmet Lunch from Concord Market
12:30-1:00 Nature Walk with Lara
1:00-2:30 Your True Story: Trust Your Writerly Intuition with Lara
2:30-3:00 Mindful Break and Snack
3:00-3:30 Choose Writing Time or Compassionate Conversation
3:30-4:15 Restorative Yoga for Creativity with Lara
4:15-4:45 Closing Mindful Practice for Writers
5:00 Fond Farewell
Invest in your writing process, sense possibilities and cultivate your flow state as you to learn, explore, write and restore.
$280. Limited to 8 participants.
Be Well Be Here offers scholarships and subsidized fees to mindfully include ALL
Lara Wilson, BWBH’s Founder, is a writer, teacher and 40-year meditator who devotes her life to exploring the intersection of mindful wellbeing, inclusive storytelling and nature immersion. Her fiction has been published in The Kenyon Review, StoryQuarterly, American Fiction, Confrontation, Indiana Review, and the Chicago Tribune Book Section as well as anthologized in Printers Row. She was awarded a 2010 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Fiction as well as scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. For several years, Lara served on the board of the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library and at GrubStreet, where she taught master fiction workshops for over a decade. Since 2019, she has served as the Curator of the Concord Festival of Authors.
ABOUT WHITNEY
Whitney Scharer is the celebrated author of The Age of Light, based on the life of pioneering photographer Lee Miller, which was a Boston Globe and IndieNext bestseller and named one of the best books of 2019 by Parade, Glamour Magazine, Real Simple, Refinery 29, Booklist and Yahoo. Internationally, The Age of Light won Le prix Rive Gauche à Paris, was a coups de couer selection from the American Library in Paris, and has been published or is forthcoming in over a dozen other countries. Whitney holds a BA in English Literature from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. She has been awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for the Arts and Ragdale, a St. Botolph Emerging Artists Grant, and a Somerville Arts Council Artists Fellowship. Her short fiction, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous publications including Vogue, The Telegraph, The Tatler, and Bellevue Literary Review. Whitney teaches fiction in the Boston area and is a co-founder of the Arlington Author Salon. She serves as Be Well Be Here’s co-president.
