636 Writing Your Hero's/Heroine's Journey
Class | This program is completed
It may seem like hubris to say that each one of us is in the center of the universe, but no one has quite lived the life we have, and when it comes to our end, only we know what we have lived and the trail left behind. This singular existence bears some take-away knowledge of story and myth, universal yet particular, as understood by story-tellers, mystics, myth-makers, and scholars like Joseph Campbell, Maureen Murdock, Carol Pearson, Jean Houston, and others. In this class we’ll be writing, listening, doing our own bit of storytelling (voluntarily of course) of phases of our Hero’s/Heroine’s Journey.
- Expectations of Participants: Computer Literacy/Access, Email, Lots of writing will be required.
Sharlene (S.E.) Gilman
SHARLENE (S. E.) GILMAN’s poetry has appeared in Keystone: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, an anthology from PSU Press, as well as in Meat for Tea, Word Fountain, and other small press magazines since the 1970s. Her short fiction is included in Common Bonds: Stories by and About Modern Texas Women, Permafrost, Hawaiian Review, Stone Drum, Oxford Magazine, Modern Words, and others. She writes occasionally in The Daily Item weekend column “Forward Thinking.” S. E. has taught writing and literacy tutoring in a variety of contexts – in universities, community settings, at a correctional institution and on reservations. Native to Galveston, Texas, she has lived in Austin, Texas; Concord, N.H.; Davis, Calif.; and now Central Pennsylvania.