Nature Writing Through the Seasons

The personal, nature writing essay is the place where the living world and our experience of it meets. Each of us has a unique vocabulary of place that comes from how we experience the landscape around us. In this creative writing workshop, we’ll consider how to put words and sentences to that vocabulary and structure it into a narrative essay. Using our senses, a collection of small wonders from the natural world, and our experiences of each season, we’ll practice weaving nature writing and memoir.

About the instructor: Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder is the author of MOTHER, CREATURE, KIN (Broadleaf Books, 2025). From 2017-2022, she worked as a staff writer and editor for , an online and print publication exploring the intersection of culture, ecology, and spirituality. Her work has also been featured in The Common, The Slowdown, Crannóg Magazine, Inhabiting the Anthropocene, EcoTheo Review, From the Ground Up, the edited poetry collection Writing the Land, and in Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape. She lives with her family in Portland, Maine.

photo credit: Ian MacLellan

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