Creative Writing on Jewish Themes II

with author Shira Nayman


Fall 2026, Sundays


You're invited to join Shira's next workshop!


Each participant will submit one longer piece of writing (up to 40 pages) in the course of the workshop. Everyone will also respond to prompts on our group page at least once between sessions.


Participants will be required to read each other's longer-piece submission and provide feedback both in writing (on the manuscript and/or in written response to be posted on the group site). They will also be required to read at least one prompt response from each participant for each session and provide a brief response to these (not detailed editing, just a remark or comment on our group page).



Dates (all 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET):

Oct. 11

Oct. 25

Nov. 8

Nov. 22

Dec. 6

Dec. 20



There are no refunds for this course. By registering, you'll also begin receiving an events email each Sunday from My Jewish Learning featuring free and paid classes and events offered by our 70 Faces Media brands.






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About Your Teacher



Shira Nayman is an award-winning author, creative writing teacher and psychologist living in New York. She is the author of multiple novels and short story collections, including "Awake in the Dark," "The Listener" and "Mind of Winter." She has published fiction and nonfiction in a variety of literary journals and newspapers, including The Atlantic, The Georgia Review, The New England Review, Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought and Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose. The winner of several grants from the likes of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute and the Australia Council for the Arts Literary Board, Nayman also holds a Psy.D from Rutgers University and explores themes of intergenerational Jewish trauma in her many works.










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