Upper Room Writers' Day
The Upper Room has a worldwide readership of some three million, and is unique in that all the meditations are written by readers of The Upper Room, who seek to share the insights of their faith with others, thus providing a personal take on each passage and a different style each day.
About the day
Date: Tuesday 17 July 2012, 9:30 am to 3:30 pm
Venue: The Spring, Highmoor Hall, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, RG9 5DH
Cost: £20 per person
Calling all readers of The Upper Room! Would you like to learn how to write a good daily reading meditation? Susan Hibbins, who edits the UK edition of The Upper Room, is on the lookout for new writers to contribute to the UK edition. Interested?
A training day is being arranged for 17 July 2012. The day will cover:
- The opportunity to learn more about The Upper Room, its history and worldwide outreach
- Writing The Upper Room meditations: the why and the how
- Fun exercises and a chance to try writing a meditation
- Improving writing skills: write the best meditation you can
- Using our senses in our writing
Booking closes 10 July 2012.
Timetable
9.30 am - 10.00 am
- Arrive, registration
10.00 am - 10.15 am
- Welcome & Introduction - Karen Laister
- Opening devotions - Susan Hibbins
10.15 am - 11.30 am
- Mechanics of a meditation
- Basis of good devotional writing
- Bible passage: Genesis 28:10-17 (Jacob's ladder)
- Analysis/reactions
- Exercise: retell story in words of one syllable
11.30 am - 11.45 am
- Break
11.45 am - 12.45 pm
- How to write - and how not to write
- How to say a lot in a little
- Exercise(s): rewriting phrases/sentences to be more interesting and original
12.45 pm - 1.00 pm
- Lisa Cherrett (copy-edit/proofing)
1.00 pm - 2.00 pm
- Lunch/informal meeting
2.00 pm - 3.00 pm
- Appealing to the senses
- Examples of writing that do so
- Discussion: what appeals to our senses and why
- Exercise: to start drafting a meditation on Genesis passage (Jacob's ladder)
3.00 pm - 3.15 pm
- Nicola Vidamour - writing for an international audience
3.15 pm - 3.30 pm
- Sum up/Q&A
- Closing devotions
Book now
To book your places online click here (please give details of any dietary needs as an order note on the Order confirmation page) or telephone 01865 319700.
