BETH KEPHART: TRANSCENDING THE TUMULT: WRITE RIGHT NOW, July 27 2025

 

TRANSCENDING THE TUMULT: WRITE RIGHT NOW 

Instructor: Beth Kephart 

Date: July 27, 2025, 2-4 PM ET on Zoom 

In the tumult of these times, writing is neither self-indulgence nor distraction. It is, instead, that chance you have, that risk you take, to find proof of residual beauty, courage, purpose, even honesty. How do we find those things “worth” writing about? How does the work of drafting and revising center us, teach us, strengthen our resolve, reveal to us who we are and must be within this clamorous age? In this master class, Beth Kephart will share brief passages from writers who have offered written proof of beauty and meaning during the noisiest times. She will showcase her own work-in-progress, tracing a prose poem from inception through revision to illustrating and posting on her Substack, The Hush and the Howl. Come prepared to be inspired by writers like Virginia Woolf, Chloe Dalton, Lulu Miller, and Nick Cave and to write inspirations of your own. 

National Book Award Finalist Beth Kephart is the award-winning author of nearly 40 books in multiple genres, a paper artist, and the author of The Hush and the Howl (Substack). Her new book, Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News: A Philadelphia Story, melds history, the imagination, and memoir to tell a story inspired by the life of Beth’s grandmother in the pivotal year of 1918. More at bethkephartbooks.com and bind-arts.com.