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Luminous Learning |  Distance Learning Made Intimate
Online writing courses with poetess Judyth Hill
Whenever you're ready!

Thank you for your desire to be a part of this exciting process!
Here are some answers to the most oft-asked questions!

  1. How do I get started?

    Firstly, feel entirely welcome!

    I am so happy you have chosen to join this Caravan of Delight!

    Secondly, please email me which course you would like to take! Easy-peasy!

    Wondering which class? Write me! I am always happy to discuss what might work best for you at any particular turning point...

    Then, go to PayPal.com, and send the payment for the class(es) to me, via my email address: judythhill@gmail.com See answer to question # 10!

  2. When and how do I receive the classes?

    I try to send classes out, as written emails, on Wednesday evenings and Thursday evenings; just tell me what date you would like to start receiving your 5 week course.

    You may receive any classes whenever you would like to begin! If you want to receive them on a different day – say, because you have co-coordinated a study group with other writers around these classes – let me know, and I will send them to y'all on the day that works best for you!

  3. How much do the classes cost?

    Each 5 week course, of 5 classes, is $50, per person. You receive an email with the classwork, which will include variations of the following: a selection of poems, a traditional (or invented!) poetry "form", and fun, exciting writing assignments! Plus unpredictable & unknown.... surprises!

  4. What is the best, easiest way to pay for the courses?

    The absolutely easiest way for you to pay for the course(s), is to ask me to send you an invoice from PayPal! Then you just follow the payment instructions!

    You do not need a "PayPal Account" to use their services to send money!

    You can, very easily, just go to the PayPal website, www.PayPal.com, and, following the instructions to send money, send $50 to my email: judythhill@gmail.com.

    If this is just not for you, please email me that you plan to pay by check, and put a check in the mail, made out to Michael Mckenna, and send it to:

    Michael Mckenna
    BC-2323 9902 Crystal Ct Ste 107
    Laredo Tx 78045-6379

    This actually gets sent across the border to San Miguel, and we get it here!

  5. How do I create a "Writing Group" to do these courses together?

    An utterly wonderful way to work with these courses, is to gather a group of like-minded writers together, and meet to share work and discuss the class material, the poems, forms, tasks, etc. Each person in the group should then email me, introduce themselves a bit, if you like, sign up, and pay for the class.

    It's such a rich way to do this work – which is so deliciously done in community! Make it a potluck, and have yummy snacks! Have a pajama party! Meet in gardens in summer...coffee houses...make it special and a pleasure...a respite, and a treat! That will support all you do, and each other the most... and make the writing soar and sing, our goal!

  6. Is there a special process for Writer's Groups taking these courses?

    YES! And dear to my heart, is to work with you to make the process of sharing your work an enlivening, powerful way to become both a writer/poet and a writing community.

    Please contact me for more details on this process – I have created and now offer a course called, Writing in Concert, which explores, explains, and demonstrates, over a five week period, a tried-and–true way to work together beautifully, with tremendous respect, and utmost sensitivity (and efficiency!) This class can be taken in tandem with any other class, has a group rate fee ($15 per person, one time fee, for the whole course) and besides giving specific guides to response and feedback techniques, outlines how to prepare and give readings, and make an anthology of the group's writing!

    Also – if you gather a group of writers, you can arrange for me to visit you and have an in-person workshop on any aspects of writing and writing practice you desire, and/or I can visit with Anusara Yoga Master, Madhuri Martin, and we can present a yoga/writing program! Yipeeeeeeeeeeee!! We all love that!. Visit www.muddyoga.com for more details on Mystic Muse – that's us!

  7. How do we, writers and poets in the Luminous Learning courses, receive feedback from Judyth?

    I am always thrilled to receive and read your work, and will send you a brief comment praising specific strengths in your piece.

    I adore hearing how the assignments are working for you! Your enjoyment of this process, your growth and excitement and discoveries along the journey are EVERYTHING – you are always and ever invited to write me and share your thoughts and your work.

    For in-depth response, and personal attention, write me to set up some "private mentoring"!

  8. How can I work privately with Judyth?

    I am always available for private mentoring. I am so very happy to work with you, in whatever way will benefit where you are in your writing/creative process.

    I charge $50 an hour, which includes my reading time, and my written response, by email. We write back and forth, with perhaps, assignments given and discussed...as seems to further the work best.

    I am also available to work by Skype. Let me know if you want to do this, and we can set up appointments to meet in cyberworld! Have a cup of Cybertea!

    You download the Skype program (it is free!), and then, we can talk, or write to each other, in realtime.

    For poets/writers desiring to publish: I can look at poems, or essays, or articles, or a whole book, and provide entirely personal feedback and guidance.

    For poets/writers desiring to publish: I can look at poems, or essays, or articles, or a whole book, and provide entirely personal feedback and guidance.

    I have taken many poets through the entire process of editing their poems for a collection, making the order for the book, helping figure out an appropriate publisher, writing the query letter and picking out the best poems to include in the approach. My gift is a blurb on the back cover!

    And I am willing to trade for a portion of "mentoring" time.

  9. Is there a way for my Writing Group, and /or myself to do a Writing Retreat in Mexico with Judyth?

    Fabulously – YES!!! My beautiful and magical home in a mountain-ringed valley outside paradisiacal San Miguel de Allende in Mexico is an artist/writer's retreat, boarding house, and working farm! Please visit us in cyberworld, at Simple Choice Farm Artist's Retreat. We give special, very very doable, residency rates to all my writing classes !!! And it is just divine here...a sanctuary – an exquisite place to rest, write, dream, play...and feast!

  10. ***"For Tales of Arrival and Becoming" Writers: How do I pick out my Story for the course?

    Please get a good translation of the Grimm Bros. collection (I recommend Ralph Manheim's, Anchor Books) or the Hans Christian Anderson collection, or the Andrew Lang collections, and dip and dabble...read, and read....invite your story to come towards you....open the book at random...keep going with a strong and sweet desire...ask...if you are at a loss...(which probably won't happen: trust the story's wisdom to find you, since you will be, ultimately, deeply trusting your story's wisdom...!) check out Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, The Handless Maiden, Hansel & Gretel, The Ugly Duckling, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Goose Girl...these are huge, intact stories....and let me know which story you are working with as soon as possible!

Please let me know if I have answered your questions!
This is very NEW for me as well!
AND I want this to be fun, easy and a deep pleasure for us all!