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Éanlaí Cronin
Bio
Éanlaí Cronin’s writing has appeared in Agave Magazine, White Wall Review, Sweet Tree Review, String Poet, Peregrine, Sinister Wisdom, Big Muddy, The Ignatian Literary Magazine, The Courage to Heal, Entropy Magazine, and The Magic of Memoir. She has spent the last twenty years attending writing workshops across America. She was a Lit Camp Writers Conference scholarship recipient; a Pat Schneider Poetry Contest Honorable Mention winner; long listed in the National Poetry Competition United Kingdom in 2017; a Winner of the Eastern Iowa Review’s Lyric Essay Contest in 2018; a Top Ten Finalist in the Fish Short Memoir Prize contest in 2018; and she received a literary residency at WordSpaceStudios in San Francisco this year. An elementary school teacher for ten years, she currently leads writing workshops. She enjoys photography, searching for the elusive “perfect chair,” and public speaking.
Our Creative Impulse and The Courage to Trust It
A storyteller’s task–their sole remit–is to take listeners on a journey, one that transforms us as though we ourselves had lived that exact experience and had returned, our purview rearranged to this newfound wisdom.
How do we, as storytellers, trust our own creative impulse?
Where does it come from?
And why is this the most important of all the creative muscles to nurture and protect?
To answer these questions, find out how I combine the Amherst Writers and Artists Method with my own pedagogy of Writing the Soul Awake.
Learn how to bypass over-analysis and make lasting contact with the birthplace of all stories: The Creative Within.