Carmen Goldthwaite

New!   MARCH 1…
It’s almost here … it’s time.

10AM – 2PM, Saturday March 1

“Spiritual Writing, A WORKSHOP: from Personal Quest to Publication”

Here’s the plan for March 1. Register by Friday night, Feb.28 2025, providing your email for the Zoom link.

And here’s how we’ll “work” the workshop:

Two tracks. One for experienced writers; one for those just stretching that muscle. (See “It’s Personal” for more.)

What’s this Spiritual Writing Workshop all about? 

It’s by and about individuals eager to explore and perhaps find their answers or not, determining what their “quest” is all about. How to write about their quest so others may gain insights and understanding.

Who should come?

First, people who write and those who don’t but want to write about spiritual matters, theirs or others. A book about the common biblical phrase, Wrestling with God, hit the New York Times best seller list before Christmas. It is an academic approach. Other books periodically bounce onto that list from a plethora of viewpoints. Spirituality is a popular subject for writers and readers. 

For those of us who “wrestle” with God or Spirit by any name, it shows we’re not alone. A thirst for a higher power may ignite a quest for putting the story down in black and white. And then, see what happens. Where does it go?

Spiritual Writing: From Workshop to Publishing

Here’s the plan for March 1. Register by Friday night, Feb.28 2025, providing your email for the Zoom link.

AT CHRISTMAS, I wrote the “Angelina” story. Fictional yet true to the known facts of this woman. I wrote about her in my books. Yet fictionalized it’s a way to tell a spiritual story when all the facts aren’t known.

Angelina
By Carmen Goldthwaite
On a dark night, long after autumn harvest, the moon soared over tall, long leaf pines. Angelina’s moccasins rustled through stiff and brown grass on her way to her son’s. Her breath punctuated the air with puffs of clouds at each step. She paused at the footpath to her people’s “great mound,” a spiritual center for Caddos. Here, she was the “keeper of the Mound” a title earned because she could converse and interpret the languages, Spanish and French as
well as her own Caddo. And she welcomed strangers in the long-standing tradition of her people…

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Angelina

by Carmen Goldthwaite

Teacher

Writer’s Circles

TUESDAY night, 7 pm meets in person at my West Fort Worth home and also Zoom when folks can’t attend in person, Feb 18, 2025
WEDNESDAY, starting Feb 19, 2025 and the afternoon “hybrid” (part Zoom, part in person) will start at 1:30 pm.
THURSDAY, starting Feb 20, 2025 It’s an all Zoom meeting that starts 7 pm

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Teaching is a wonderful experience

AUTHOR

GIFTS FOR TEXANA LOVERS & FOR THE WRITER IN YOUR LIFE…

Carmen Goldthwaite is the top-selling author of Texas’ heroic women, their stories: true adventures of Texas women across the centuries and the landscape of the State and the Republic. The 15-year research and writing project resulted in Texas Dames: Sassy and Savvy Women Throughout Lone Star History and Texas Ranch Women: Three Centuries of Mettle and Moxie. Her stories of these women have appeared in anthologies and magazines, such as: FORT WORTH TEXAS, PERSIMMON HILL, Wild West, True West, TCU Alumnae, etc..

Carmen Goldthwaite – Author, Teacher, Storyteller – packs a lifetime of writing into creative writing classes she teaches, the Texas Tales she spins and books and articles she pens.

Translating decades of experience in writing and publishing, Carmen passes along her knowledge to writers through small group Writers’ Circles, individually, classes, conferences and workshops. For 12 years, men and women have knocked on the door of her writing place, her home, “Scribblers Sanctuary,” as nicknamed by early students. Some of her SMU and TCU students still come back from time to time for a “refresher” or a manuscript edit.

With the ease of a click and the thoughtfulness of one who knows them well, you can give a gift that lasts, that inspires, that suggests the awe of accomplishment.

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Author

“You find the untold stories of so many women…women who’ve been lost from the pages of history, and you write them well.”

Ann Smith of the Houston-Galveston Sam Houston Chapter of DAR about Texas Dames: Sassy and Savvy Women throughout Lone Star History

Carmen is the top-selling author of Texas’ heroic women’s stories: true adventures across the centuries and the landscape of Texas.

ONE READER SAID about TEXAS RANCH WOMEN: THREE CENTURIES OF METTLE AND MOXIE…
…“well written and informative. I was born and raised in Texas. We had Texas history in school. This book gives me the ‘rest of the story’.” – Txana, on Amazon, a review.

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Storyteller

“Thank you for coming. I could tell people really enjoyed the stories you told.”

Debbie, Pittsburg Peach Festival

Carmen spins the tales, the true ones, of Texas’ formidable women, stories untold or long forgotten. She’s written about them in columns, magazines, anthologies and books– tales of immigrating to “Tejas” alone and with children, standing off hungry and angry hostiles with guns or baked bread, grubbing to bring forth crops and livestock on land often parched, making hay when wildcatters poked their pastures and hit bonanzas.

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Upcoming events

Whether about history or writing, Carmen welcomes the opportunity to ‘pass it on.’

Scheduling Storytelling Events Now for 2024. Contact Carmen to find out more or schedule an event.

For more information, call on 817-726-0412 or EMAIL