Eat and Read at Melba’s, New Orleans, LA
Sophfronia Scott will sign copies of The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton, as part of a communal literacy awareness project. The books [...]
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Madeleine Mornings, Online Writers’ Retreat
Inspired by the late Madeleine L’Engle (A Wrinkle in Time), these virtual mini-retreats, co-hosted by Sarah Arthur and Sophfronia Scott, are designed to spark insight, [...]
16TH Annual Thomas Merton Black History Month Lecture, Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY
Sophfronia Scott will deliver a lecture, TITLE TBD, at this annual event hosted by the Merton Center. The event is free and open to the [...]
The Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain & Ireland Conference, Oakham School, Rutland, England
Oakham Conference 2022 on the theme 'Where is Our Hope?' Our Residential Conference will be held at Oakham School from Thu 7th April to Sat 9th [...]
Madeleine Mornings, Online Writers’ Retreat
Inspired by the late Madeleine L’Engle (A Wrinkle in Time), these virtual mini-retreats, co-hosted by Sarah Arthur and Sophfronia Scott, are designed to spark insight, [...]
Alma College MFA in Creative Writing Summer Residency, Alma, MI
As director of Alma's MFA program, Sophfronia is pleased to announce its summer 2022 residency. Residency is the heart of the MFA experience. Students, faculty, [...]
Chautauqua Institution Summer Lecture, Chautauqua, NY
Sophfronia's reflections on Thomas Merton’s wisdom and personal journals, as related in her book, The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton, will [...]
MFA Nation, Featured Panel, Online, 1455 Summer Literary Festival
Over the last fifty years or so, the Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing has become one of the important ways that writers [...]
Breaking the Academic Mold Workshop, Collegeville Institute, Collegeville, MN
Applications for this jointly sponsored Wabash Center/Collegeville Institute workshop are closed. This writing workshop is for scholars of religion and theology who have written exclusively [...]
Merton on Thursday, Online Talk
This is an online presentation of the talk originally planned for the UK Merton conference scheduled for April 2022 that was cancelled. Go to https://www.thomasmertonsociety.org.uk/ [...]