W. B. Yeats and Harry Potter

The William Butler Yeats exhibition at the National Library of Ireland Recently invited to Dublin gave me the gift of a truly magical week, meeting many Irish poets, playwrights, and actors. I was also researching settings for a reincarnation action- romance screenplay set in Ireland that I wrote some years ago. Optioned 3 x but not […]
Join me in a new course Nov 5-8, 2019 in Ojai, CA

Krotona School, Nov 5-8, 10AM-Noon daily Integrating the Spiritual with Everyday Life with Catherine Ann Jones There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life. Annie Besant Many of us are born with the search for God or Truth deeply embedded within. This begins a pilgrim’s progress towards the goal of […]
Writing the Self

Writing the Self “I write in order to discover myself.” – Maya Angelou Click on link: Remaining 2019 Schedule Aug 21-25 Sequoia National Park: Far Horizons, https://farhorizons.co/aug-21-25-2019-catherine-jones/ Sept 25-28 San Luis Obispo, CA, www.centralcoastwritersconference.com Oct 2-16 Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow Nov 5-8 Ojai: Integrating the Spiritual with Everyday Life, Krotona Institute KrotonaInstitute.org Nov […]
A Lover’s Quarrel with the Writing

Having a lover’s quarrel with the writing. On again. Off again spurts of creativity. Addiction to television binges. At least with so many choices today: Netflix, Amazon, Cable TV, one can choose good viewing. Fleabag on Amazon, Endeavour on PBS, Planet Earth on Netflix. Happiness is a large flat screen television, cushy leather couch, […]
Summer-Fall Schedule

“People without hope do not write books.” Margaret Atwood Six DailyOM Online courses link on home page of wayofstory.com Now over 52,000 subscribers to online courses by Catherine Ann Jones 2019 SUMMER-FALL SCHEDULE Aug 21-25 Sequoia National Park: Far Horizons, https://farhorizons.co/aug-21-25-2019-catherine-jones/ Sept 26-28 […]
Santa Barbara Writers Conference June 16-21, 2019

Santa Barbara Writers Conference June 16-21, 2019 Home Register Catherine Ann Jones The Way of Story Integrative approaches to writing narrative Monday, June 17 9:00-11:30 AM El Cabrillo Room The Way of Story offers an integrative approach to writing narrative—both fiction and nonfiction—including plays, screenplays, short stories, novels, and memoir. “We’ve become lopsided living […]
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

For three decades now, I have had parallel careers as a professional writer and a graduate teacher as well as leading writing workshops both here and abroad. For some years, I taught playwriting at The New School University in New York City then graduate screenwriting at U.S.C. Film Dept. in Los Angeles. Eager to become […]
Transformational Writing for Personal and Global Healing

Announcing new online course with award-winning author Catherine Ann Jones https://dailyom.com/cgi-bin/courses/courseoverview.cgi?cid=83 Your story is not written in stone. It changes as your perspective changes. Today, in modern life, a fragmentation separates most […]
Way of Story workshop in Ojai, CA, Sat, March 16

THE WAY OF STORY in OJAI with Catherine Ann Jones Saturday, March 16, 2019 (10-4pm) “We’ve become lopsided living only in our heads. Writing, in order to serve the soul must integrate outer craft with the inner world of intuition and feeling.” Catherine Ann Jones, NY TIMES The Way of Story offers […]
Way of Story workshop in Ojai, CA

Isn’t it time to honor your story? THE WAY OF STORY in OJAI with Catherine Ann Jones Saturday, March 16, 2019 (10-4pm) “We’ve become lopsided living only in our heads. Writing, in order to serve the soul must integrate outer craft with the inner world of intuition and feeling.” Catherine Ann Jones, NY TIMES The […]