Community Briefs

Free writing workshop on 'Illness and Expression'

Sarah Roth, the current writer-in-residence with the local Hypatia-in-the-Woods, presents a free workshop on life writing from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Sept. 1 at the Shelton Timberland Regional Library.

Roth is a writer and doctoral candidate in anthropology at John Hopkins University in Baltimore. She recently completed training as a genetic counselor and is working on an ethnographic project exploring women's narratives of cancer care.

Her writing workshop is called "Illness and Expression." Roth quotes author Virginia Woolf as saying that illness has...