Workshops at Sunset Lodge

Join us at Sunset Lodge on beautiful Lake Damariscotta in Midcoast Maine for 5 days and discover your story. Each day we will have two 2.5 hour writing sessions— one morning session and one in the late afternoon—leaving free time in between to write, to wander, to canoe, to dream…
Sessions will include writing exercises and prompts to get our hearts and minds limber and opportunities for sharing our work with each other.

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2021: Repairing Children’s Books

This book repair workshop was taught by Juliayn Coleman and took place August 29 – September 4, 2021. 

Juliayn is president of the Hand Bookbinders of California and is a member of the American Institute for Conservation, the Guild of Book Workers (US) and Designer Bookbinders (UK). She currently resides in Oakland, California, where she has a private practice in bookbinding and conservation.
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2020:

Unfortunately, our 2020 workshops were cancelled due to COVID-19

2019: Write from the Heart

This was a writing workshop on the theme of courage taught by writer, editor and lay Zen teacher, Sue Moon. This workshop took place September 9-15, 2019. Sue’s books include This Is Getting Old; The Hidden Lamp, with Florence Caplow; and What Is Zen? Plain Thoughts for a Beginner’s Mind, with Norman Fischer. She was the longtime editor of Turning Wheel, the Journal of Socially Engaged Buddhism. She has been teaching writing workshops and leading Zen retreats for many years. For more information, click here

2018: Hand Bookbinding

Our inaugural workshop, taught by Juliayn Coleman, took place on September 2-8, 2018. See photos: https://bookbindingatsunsetlodge.wordpress.com

Geared towards beginner through intermediate skill levels, we made one simple nonadhesive book each day. For more information, click here.