A 5-Week Nonfiction Workshop
Tuesdays: September 30 – October 28, 6-9 PM
Many of us experience ourselves and our lives as an extension of the natural world rather than a satellite of it. Running your hand through kelp is akin to running it through your own hair, watching birds at a feeder can generate insights into communal living, witnessing the success and failures of seeds year to year can help us develop our own tolerance to life’s processes. Insights like these are at the center of the braided nature essay, where a writer delves into a place or process and mines it for symbolism and metaphor. Readings will include work by Meehan Crist, Jo Ann Beard, Eula Biss and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and over the course of the class, students will begin to outline and write their own braided nature essays for publication. One of our meetings will be a field trip, which will require good shoes for a short walk, and a notebook. Any and all writers are welcome to try this course - the only requirement is an open mind and generous spirit.
$275 Members/$475 Nonmembers
Kea Krause’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Believer, National Geographic, Wired and Slate, among other outlets. My piece, “What’s Left Behind,” anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016 and The Best American Travel Writing 2016. In 2018, I was a panelist at the Aspen Ideas Festival, where I discussed melting permafrost, antibiotic resistance and my piece about the search for new life at the North Pole. More recently, my work has been included as notables in both Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 and Best American Food Writing 2023, and my piece “Take it Down and They’ll Return” was a finalist for a Non-Profit News Award. She also holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University, where she taught undergraduate creative writing. She was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and now she hangs out mostly in the Maine woods.
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