Identity & Place in the Natural World: A Generative Writing Workshop

Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver, Barry Lopez, and other nature-based writers found solace and kinship with the natural world. What about us? This creative writing workshop offers tips on how to receive inspiration from the flourishing and/or endangered non-human environment. It is for anyone who is curious about exploring our connections with nature and discovering a new way of being in the world. A creative writing background is not required to participate.

Mildred K Barya is a North Carolina-based writer and poet of East African descent. She teaches and lectures globally, and is the author of four full-length poetry collections, most recently The Animals of My Earth School published by Terrapin Books, 2023. Her prose, hybrids, and poems have appeared in New England Review, Shenandoah, Joyland, The Cincinnati Review, Tin House, Forge, and elsewhere. Her essay, “Being Here in This Body,” won the 2020 Linda Flowers Literary Award and is published in the North Carolina Literary Review. She serves on the boards of African Writers Trust, Story Parlor, and coordinates the Poetrio Reading events at Malaprop’s Independent Bookstore/Café. She blogs here: www.mildredbarya.com

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