A 5-Week Creative Nonfiction Workshop
Wednesdays, February 10 - March 10, 6-9 PM
The year's longest nights can be as regenerative as they are restful. On how she used her winters, Annie Dillard once wrote, "At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting." What have you been wanting to write but haven't found the time? What are you writing that needs new life breathed into it? In some of the first weeks of the new year, writers in this workshop will take advantage of winter nights when Maine is quiet and we are called to introspection. We will set resolutions and get out of our ruts by engaging in prompt-based writing exercises with large portions of each session being dedicated to in-class writing. We will reap the harvest of these quiet nights. Over the course of five weeks, writers will participate in a show and tell approach: we will build out our TBR stacks and reading lists, share inspiration from our readings, develop sustainable writing practices, and aim to turn in a ~1500 word piece for our peer workshop as the final class. This is a course for nonfiction writers of any level of experience who are eager to experiment and share, and get out of their ruts.
$275 Members/$355 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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