Registration is available online, in person at the Box Office,įor questions or more information please contact Hilary Roberts at or call 76. This program is a partnership with Inlandia Institute Marj teaches between 15 and 20 publishing workshops and memoir and fiction workshops a year at public libraries in Riverside, Hemet, Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage, CA. She is on the board of the Diamond Valley Writers Guild, and the publications board at Inlandia Institute. Marj Charlier has a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State, a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, and an MBA from Regis University in Denver. Today, she also publishes books for other people under the indie imprint, Sunacumen Press. Her eleventh novel, The Rebel Nun, will be published by Blackstone Publishing in spring 2021. She started her career as a journalist, including 12 years as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, and worked for more than a decade in corporate finance. Writing fiction is a third career for Marj Charlier. Only the latter offers them any kind of independence. At that time, women are afforded few choices in life: prostitution, motherhood, or the cloister. This program is a partnership with Inlandia Institute. Marj Charlier's The Rebel Nun is based on the true story of Clotild, the daughter of a sixth-century king and his concubine, who leads a rebellion of nuns against the rising misogyny and patriarchy of the medieval church. This three-day workshop will help jump-start writers who want to turn their memories into compelling stories, with the same dialogue, description, pacing and narration that make fictional protagonists jump off the page.

The best memoirs are written like good novels-with the same literary tools that make great romances and mysteries come alive. A BuzzFeed Books Pick of Most Anticipated Books of Winter.Better Than Fiction: Bringing Fictional Writing Techniques to your Memoir with Marj Charlier In the only historical novel written about the incident, The Rebel Nun is a richly imagined story about a truly remarkable heroine. Will Clotild and her sisters succeed with their quest, or will they face excommunication, possibly even death? But the bishop refuses to back down, and a bloody battle ensues. When the bishop of Poitiers blocks her appointment and seeks to control the nunnery himself, Clotild masterminds an escape, leading a group of nuns on a dangerous pilgrimage to beg her royal relatives to intercede on their behalf.

By the end of the sixth century, even this is eroding as the church begins to eject women from the clergy and declares them too unclean to touch sacramental objects or even their priest-husbands.Ĭraving the legitimacy thwarted by her bastard status, Clotild seeks to become the next abbess of the female Monastery of the Holy Cross, the most famous of the women's cloisters of the early Middle Ages. Marj Charlier's The Rebel Nun is based on the true story of Clotild, the daughter of a sixth-century king and his concubine, who leads a rebellion of nuns against the rising misogyny and patriarchy of the medieval church.Īt that time, women are afforded few choices in life: prostitution, motherhood, or the cloister.

The Rebel Nun by Marj Charlier