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Innovation. Challenge. Community.What are your goals as a student and maker of literature, as an artist contributing to the conversation about the urgent matters of our time? What is the work you want to do, the work that is specific to your experience, talent, and imagination? Now celebrating over 19 years of accomplishment, the Rainier Writing Workshop has been helping writers to answer those questions, and to generate new, even deeper questions about the writer’s aspirations. Our MFA is an

, beliefs and values, and the dissemination of these ideas through business, education, nursing and other professions.Within the environmental studies curriculum, the social sciences provide perspectives on the environment from a human point of view, balancing the ecological perspectives contributed by the natural sciences with the economic and political aspects of human society. Courses in the humanities bring the insights of religion and ethics as well as a body of literature and artistic appreciation

acknowledge with gratitude the generous financial support provided for the 2012 symposium by: The Thor Heyerdahl Institute, The Port of Tacoma, The Benson Family Foundation, The Scandinavian Cultural Center and The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

clergy and retired lay leaders)* Image from “The Scream” by Norwegian expressionist artist Edvard Munch.ScheduleDetailed Conference Schedule now available.MoreSpeakersLearn about the speakers and topics at the summer conference.More