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Invite Charlotte Donlon to Speak at Your Next Online or In-Person Retreat or Gathering

Sometimes it’s hard to know if the speaker for your online or in-person event or retreat will provide anything you haven’t already heard a dozen times.

If you want to give your audience and participants a high quality experience and make sure your speaker will offer a unique, fresh perspective on topics connected to loneliness and belonging, the writing life, author conversations, Spiritual Direction for Writers®, Spiritual Direction for Belonging®, or Parenting with Art®, you can be confident in Charlotte Donlon’s ability to deliver.

Charlotte Donlon’s online and in-person speaking engagements are always customized to each event’s purpose and rooted in helping the audience and participants notice how art and other good things help them belong to themselves, others, the divine, and the world.

“I had the chance to work with Charlotte Donlon as a part of the 2022 Magic City Poetry Festival, and she was such a professional, such a caring and interested partner, and she was genuinely curious about the topic at hand. Charlotte was easy to work with—we made a plan and stuck to it, and during our interviews (during the podcast and the live event that succeeded it). Charlotte’s passion for finding the intersections between art, faith, and mystery among writers and people of various religious faiths was palpable and contagious. I truly enjoyed our time together and I look forward to working with her again!”
— Ashley M. Jones, Alabama State Poet Laureate & Founder of Magic City Poetry Festival
“Having Charlotte help me develop a practice of writing has revealed a love for putting my thoughts on paper — a love I had no idea I possessed. It has helped me get to know myself in a deeper, more honest way, which in turn allows me to be more honest with God.”
— Anna Cate Berman, Founder & Creative Director at Sela Vie Creative
“Feeling affirmed is the absolute biggest thing that Charlotte has done in my life. Feeling affirmed as a writer and also feeling affirmed in my relationship with God. There are times where I feel alone in my belief in God...in how I believe that we are called to build the kingdom right now...right here...where we are. I don’t know many folks like that, but Charlotte affirmed me in this as well.”
— Steven R Lonis-Shumate, Writer, Educator, & Farmer at Intentional Farms
“Charlotte helped me unlock what could be possible through my writing and that even while home with two kids, I could make time for writing retreats. Embodying the gift of writing makes my soul happy!”
— Jenny Smith, Pastor, Writer, & Coach for Pastors
“Charlotte has helped me integrate writing and a call to ministry, helped me develop writing practices that work in my real life, and given me courage and confidence...”
— Anna Scott, Writer & Professional Staff Member, Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)


Topics Include:

  • Loneliness & Belonging

  • Belonging through Art

  • Belonging to Our Places

  • Belonging to Our Stories

  • Spiritual Direction for Writers®

  • The Writing Life

  • The Reading Life

  • Spiritual Writing

  • Parenting with Art™

Possible Formats:

  • Keynotes

  • Interviewer

  • Belonging through Art Retreat Leader

  • Belonging to Our Places Retreat Leader

  • Writing Retreat Leader

  • Spiritual Retreat Leader

  • Writing Craft Lessons/Workshops

  • Group Spiritual Direction

  • Book Discussion Exploring Charlotte’s First Book, The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other

 

Past engagements include: Facilitator for Magic City Poetry Festival’s Conversation on Writing and Faith with Poets Ashley M. Jones and Kaveh Akbar (2022, online), Monastery of the Risen Christ Formation Retreat (2022, online), Group Spiritual Direction for Moms Who Write (2021, online), Multiple Author Events for The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other (2020-2021, online), Lent Devotional Reading and Talk for Mockingbird Ministries (2020, online), Lent Retreat Leader with InSpero (2019, Birmingham, Alabama), Advent Retreat Speaker with InSpero (2019, Birmingham, Alabama), Featured Speaker at Women’s Event at Cathedral Church of the Advent (2019, Birmingham, Alabama), Poetry Reading Workshops at the Homewood Library (2018-2019, Homewood, Alabama) Presenter and Workshop Leader at SPARK Creative Writing Festival (2019, Birmingham, Alabama), Motherhood Wellness Conference with Dr. Leesha Ellis Cox (2019, Birmingham, Alabama), Multiple Writing & Faith Retreats with Dozens of Attendees (2020-2022 online), Facilitator, Small Group Leader, or Speaker at Multiple Community Group Leaders Retreats at Red Mountain Church (2002-2015, Birmingham, Alabama), Facilitator, Small Group Leader, or Speaker at Multiple Women’s Retreats at Red Mountain Church (2002-2015, Birmingham, Alabama)