Julia Cameron

ABOUT JULIA CAMERON

Julia B. Cameron holds her name as an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, pigeon fancier, composer, and journalist. She is also best known for her book The Artist’s Way. Julia has written many other non-fiction works, short stories, essays, novels, plays, musicals, and screenplays.

Julia Cameron was born on March 4, 1948, in Libertyville, Illinois, which is a suburb of Chicago, and was raised as Catholic. She was known as the second oldest of seven children. Cameron started her college at Georgetown University before transferring to Fordham University. She also wrote for The Washington Post and then Rolling Stone.

Julia is credited with starting a movement in 1992 that has brought creativity into the mainstream conversation such as in the arts, in business, and in everyday life. She is known as the best-selling author of more than forty books, fiction, and nonfiction, a poet, songwriter, filmmaker, and playwright.

Cameron is commonly referred to as “The Godmother” or “High Priestess” of creativity, her tools are based on practice, not theory, and she considers herself “the floor sample of her toolkit.

EVENTS, COURSES & RESOURCES

Events

• The Gathering of the Creatives Santa Fe, NM, USA 09/03/21 – 09/05/21

Courses

Julia has two different video courses available.

• The Artist’s Way (https://juliacameronlive.com/the-artists-way/)

The Artist’s Way online course is divided into twelve weeks of videos and prompts to complement the structure of the book. 

• The Right to Write Video Course ( https://juliacameronlive.com/the-right-to-write-video-course/)

The Right to Write Video Course is an invitation– and initiation– into the writing life. Tools will free your inner writer from painful constriction and fear. Learn a new mythology around writing, release negatives, and focus on the positive– and possible– joys of writing. 

BOOKS & RESOURCES 

Julia Cameron has been an active artist for more than thirty years. She is the author of forty books, fiction and nonfiction, including her bestselling works on the creative process: The Artist’s Way, Walking in This World and Finding Water. Her work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages and has sold more than four million copies worldwide. Also a novelist, playwright, songwriter and poet, she has multiple credits in theater, film and television.

Some of her books are:

• The Artist’s Way (UK 2020)

• The Listening Path

• It’s Never Too Late to Begin Again

• The Creative Life

• Mozart’s Ghost

• The Writer’s Life: Insights from The Right to Write

To find out more about her books please click here.