DAY 1: November 8, 2024
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
DAY 2: November 9, 2024
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
ONLINE VIA ZOOM
Maryland Moms use “citylit” as a code
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/scribentematernum/1326334
Two days of writing, inspiration, and stillness for writers who identify as mothers.
SCRIBENTE MATERNUM was formed out of a desire to find balance between our children (young or grown) as writing inspiration and their perpetual presence as writing distraction. Our first retreat for writers who identify as mothers was held in the winter of 2021, at the height of a global pandemic. Since then, we have welcomed mothers from across the country to two in-person retreats: the first at The Clifton House in Baltimore and the second on the shores of the Pacific Ocean in Washington State. This year, the Scribente Maternum retreat experience heads back to the city for an event in Minneapolis. We are also thrilled to go back to our roots and bring back the virtual retreat option, FREE for all writer-moms in Maryland, thanks to our partnership with CityLit and the National Endowment for the Arts.
This year’s facilitators include 신선영 SUN YUNG SHIN, DARA BEEVAS, KATE HOPPER, and RACHEL BERG SCHERER.
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신 선 영 SUN YUNG SHIN was born in Seoul, Korea. She is the award-winning author of four books of poetry, most recently The Wet Hex; author of three picture books for young readers, most recently Where We Come From; and editor of three anthologies of essays, most recently What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories About Food and Family. She is a recent MacDowell Fellow and the recipient of a Bush Artist Fellowship, a McKnight Fellowship, and several Minnesota State Arts Board grants. She is the co-founder with Su Hwang of Poetry Asylum, and is a teaching artist with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, and is on the Editorial Board of Black Lawrence Press’s Immigrant Writing Series. She lives in Minneapolis with her family.
https://www.sunyungshin.com/
DARA BEEVAS is a writer and publisher based in Minneapolis. She received her Master’s Degree in publishing and is, with Amy Quale, the co-founder of Wise Ink Creative Publishing, a hybrid publisher committed to changing the world by offering platforms to marginalized voices. Dara was a 2009 Givens Foundation for African American Literature Emerging Writers Fellow. She was also a 2017-2019 Bush Foundation Fellow. She’s the author of The Indie Author Revolution, Social Media Secrets for Authors, and Buzz: The Ultimate Guide to Book Marketing. Her next project is a children’s picture book series profiling black queens throughout history. A native of the Washington, D.C. area, Dara lives with her daughter Genesis, and her husband Tomme.
https://www.wiseink.com/our-team
KATE HOPPER has been teaching creative writing for almost twenty years. She is the founder of Motherhood & Words®, a series of classes, workshops, readings, and retreats to support women interested in writing about motherhood. She is also the author of Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood, winner of a MIPA Midwest Book Award, and Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers. She is the co-author of Silent Running: Our Family’s Journey to the Finish Line with Autism (Triumph Books, April 2015.) Kate’s writing has appeared in several magazines and journals, including Brevity, Literary Mama, Longreads, Los Angeles Review of Books, nytimes.com, Poets & Writers, River Teeth, and Creative Nonfiction’s True Story. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, where she taught literature and creative writing. Kate currently teaches online, in Ashland University’s Low-Residency MFA Program and at The Loft Literary Center and ModernWell, both in Minneapolis.
https://katehopper.com/
RACHEL BERG SCHERER is an education writer based in the Twin Cities. She writes school textbooks for courses such as Advanced Placement European History and Microeconomics, and she creates teaching materials for history and social studies classrooms at all education levels. She has written a regular Feminist Parenting column for Rebellious Magazine for Women and has been featured in Solstice Literary Magazine, Minnesota Parent magazine, and parents.com. Rachel is also the creator of The Write House course, which helps emerging writers create better content in less time. Before becoming a high school English teacher, Rachel worked in communications and public relations on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and for other government agencies and nonprofits. Rachel holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in writing and history from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, and a Master’s in Leadership in Teaching from Notre Dame of Maryland University. She and her husband and two children live in her home state of Minnesota.
https://www.writewithrbs.com/
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