At RCWMS, we love providing time and space for women to be creative together. One of the ways we’ve done this is by sponsoring weeklong writing retreats at Pelican House at Trinity Center, Emerald Isle, NC. For over a decade, women have been nourished by quiet days of writing and evenings of community sharing. While […]
Creativity
Art Weekends at the Beach
During the last week of February, a large beach house on Emerald Isle—with a magnificent view of the sound in one direction and a one-block walk to the beach in the other—was filled with pencils, pastels, acrylics, watercolors, charcoal, pens, and blank canvases. By the beginning of March, a revolving cast of women had explored, […]
Black Milk: On the Conflicting Demands of Writing, Creativity, and Motherhood
What is necessary for a writing life? This is the question that Elif Shafak, one of Turkey’s most celebrated authors, wrestles with in her spiritual memoir, Black Milk: On the Conflicting Demands of Writing, Creativity, and Motherhood. All her life, Shafak has identified herself as a writer, which has been a source of great pride and stability […]