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Upcoming Events
Writing as Witnessing: An Open Genre Climate Storytelling Workshop
In partnership with Maine Climate Action Now, this six-part online workshop will explore the written word as a tool for navigating the shifting edges of climate change. (Registrations closed.)
(Re)Connecting to Creative Practice: Finding ritual and rhythm in the midst of uncertainty
With everything going on in the world, it can be a challenge to maintain the discipline of creative practice and to remember and re-inhabit it as worthy and valuable. Over three sessions, we’ll explore together ways of reconnecting to our writing as a creative and nourishing practice, weaving together elements of ritual and community.
For the duration of the three-week course, participants will have the option to write together every morning over Zoom. These writing sessions will entail a brief check-in followed by time to write in silence and community.
(Registrations closed.)
Writing Creatures:
Is there an animal or plant you’ve been longing to write about? Are you looking for ways to make your writing wilder? Over three sessions, we’ll delve into the world of a creature we’re interested in learning more about, stretch our writing practice across the species divide, and consider how writing can be a space to build bridges of empathy and care with the living world.
(Registrations closed.)
Past Events:
All We Can Save Reading Group (Facilitator)
A three-part community discussion hosted by the South Portland Land Trust and South Portland Library
(Summer 2024)
"Writing at the Edge" (Virtual)
A three-part writing workshop exploring the ecology of salt marshes and how to weave edge-places into our writing in a time of uncertainty.
"Writing at the Edge" (In-Person)
A three-part writing workshop exploring the ecology of the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge in Maine and how to weave edge-places into our writing in a time of uncertainty.
"Great Mother & New Father Conference"
Teacher at the Great Mother and New Father Conference, on the theme of "Wayfinding, Unlikely Teachers and Steering into Mystery." For more information: greatmotherconference.org
"Sense-Making & Sensory Worlds"
A three-part virtual writing workshop exploring how to weave sensory experiences into our writing, through the lens of the incredible sensory worlds of barn owls, hemlock trees, and right whales.
Book event / contributor conversation with Katie Holten for The Language of Trees, at Back Cove Books in Portland.
"Memory and Community at the Edge of Land and Sea," a writing workshop for the Selsey Sea Bathing Society.
Guest speaker, Seguinland Institute. "Tree Migration in Maine: Rooting in Resiliency."
"Writing from the Roots," a six-week nature writing course for Emergence Magazine.
Emergence Magazine's "Writing Beyond Environment" nature writing series.
Emergence Magazine's monthly book club.
Guest lecturer for MassArt's Sustainability Series.
Earth Week nature writing workshop for the South Portland Land Trust.
Workshop leader for Phillips Exeter Academy's Environmental Literature Institute.