Writing From a Changing Place

Writing can help us reconcile with the changes confronting our favorite places and lead us to new ways of honoring, tending, and sharing those places.

This workshop will guide you through depicting a beloved landscape in a vivid and compelling way. It will invite you to explore adaptations and futures that connect ourselves and our surroundings. You’ll learn techniques for conveying experiences and emotions in scenes and descriptions that will affect your readers deeply. You’ll leave the workshop with a draft that you can develop into a complete story, essay, poem, or longer work about the landscape that speaks to your heart.

This workshop is open to writers with any level of experience working in any genre. We won't exchange feedback on drafts, but we'll gather in a spirit of curiosity and generosity to support our own and each other’s writing. There will be plenty of time for questions. Registration is limited to 15 students.