Write Like the Desert
Schedule
Sun Dec 15 2024 at 12:30 pm to 05:30 pm
Location
Live Oak Picnic Area | Brea, CA
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Write Like the Desert is a field writing workshop that will lead participants through a word journey exploration of Joshua Tree NP and the extended Mojave Desert. $68.83
This is an ADA accessible and leisurely activity - less than 2 miles with little or no elevation gain, shade and seating available.
Ruth Nolan lives in the Mojave Desert and is an author and professor of creative writing at College of the Desert. She has curated writing workshops for Desert Institute since 2008. Her desert-centric writing has been published in Boom: California; McSweeney’s; KCET Tending Nature and Art bound L.A.; Joshua Tree: Where Two Deserts Meet; Campfire Books Volume II Stories Vol. 2: Voices from America’s National Parks and Trails and Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California. A former wildland firefighter for the B.L.M. CA Desert District, she is editor of "No Place for a Puritan: The Literature of California's Deserts (Heyday Books) and curator of the humanities project "Fire on the Mojave: Stories from the Deserts and Mountains of Southern California."
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Where is it happening?
Live Oak Picnic Area, Brea, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
