about antler

through onsite workshops, print media, and digital content, ANTLER exists to help people engage creativity as a devotional practice for spiritual formation.

as a community building organization, ANTLER brings people together by providing seekers a place to use creativity as a means of fleshing out matters of faith, contemplation, and intentional living. please visit our blog for practical advice, interviews, exercises, insights, and other miscellany in allowing the sacred collision between faith and imagination into your daily life and routine.

as a spiritual formation organization, ANTLER is pioneering a space for creative practices of writing to be an integral part of sacred life, worship implementation, and growth in religious communities. we do this directly with manifest workshops. we’d love to come cultivate faith and imagination in your community, contact us directly.

as a publishing platform, ANTLER produces content that is shaping the landscapes of faith, imagination, and creativity. where will the new voices of faith be heard when their work is “too religious” for mainstream publishing and “too edgy” for religious publishing? we hope they’ll come here. we are providing an outlet for authors and artists of faith to produce honest works of creative integrity that thrive on the tensions of being in the world but not of it. our first line of books will be available in fall of 2013.

ANTLER is always looking for talented writers to contribute blog content, progressive leaders interested in fostering the arts in their religious communities, and big-thinking ministers, teachers, creatives, artists, seekers, business people, and scholars willing to partner and create with us.

all vocations need apply—ask how you can get involved and create with us. really, we mean it, send us a pitch!

here are the folks who make stuff happen at ANTLER. feel free to hit up any of them…

dave harrity is author of “making manifest: on faith, creativity, and the kingdom at hand,” a book of meditations and exercises for personal and communal spiritual formation. he’s also author of “morning and what has come since: poems,” which was nominated for a pushcart prize, kentucky literary award, and the conference on christianity and literature’s book-of-the-year citation. his poems have appeared widely in journals and magazine internationally and stateside. with a focus on teaching creative practices and writing, his workshops, classes, and lectures often explore the intersection of faith and imagination through poetry writing. from 2008-2009, he taught creative writing workshops at asbury seminary as part of the pastoral imagination series and has since taught similar classes across the country. he lives and writes in louisville with his wife and children. follow him on twitter and instagram.

daniel bowman jr. is the author of a plum tree in leatherstocking country (vac poetry, 2012). jeanne murray walker said of the book, “it captures brilliantly the strangeness of being human.” his poems and essays have appeared in the adirondack review, american poetry journal, the bitter oleander, books and culture, cha: an asian literary journal (hong kong), istanbul literary review (turkey), the midwest quarterly, the other journal, redactions: poetry & poetics, rio grande review, rock & sling, seneca review, and others. he recently completed his first novel, beggars in heaven, which is due out from ANTLER later this year. he loved the  work we do so dang much he decided he wanted to work with us to help bring faith, imagination, and creativity to all! follow nicholas on twitter: @danielbowmanjr

nicholas siegel is a recent graduate of bellarmine university, where he majored in english and minored in theology. in addition to being an antler intern, he is currently working towards a master of fine arts degree in creative writing at spalding univeristy with a concentration in fiction. follow nicholas on twitter: @nicholassiegel

stephanie kornexl lives in louisville, ky. in addition to working with ANTLER, she works in ministry and studies theology at st. meinrad.

leslie hill is a highly passionate designer who is bursting with energy for things like: beautiful color combinations, geometric shapes and patterns, a detail for impressive typography, and creative collaboration with others. she wants to create. she believes we will never be done learning; even the experts are students of what we love to do. she is always ready for an adventure.