This workshop is FULL. To be added to the waitlist, email Meghan at programs@mainewriters.org.
An IN-PERSON Writing Workshop
ALL LEVELS
Join Lewis Robinson, author and creative writing professor, and Sarah Holman, writer and Registered Maine Guide, for an immersive outdoor workshop. We’ll spend the day in Bradbury State Park exploring the trails, forests, and views and allowing the setting to inspire our creative process. Participants will be given writing prompts centered around the natural world and have the opportunity to write in the wild. We will delve into memories that have stayed with us and work to convey the deeper meaning of those moments. Writers will begin the workshop with a blank page and leave with a work-in-progress. At the end of the day, we will share our work and offer each other constructive feedback.
Timeline:
We’ll meet in the park at 9am to discuss goals and objectives for the day and enjoy a light breakfast of fruit, baked goods, and coffee. Morning and afternoon sessions of walking*, observing nature, and writing will follow, with a midday lunch break at the summit of Bradbury Mountain. We will end the day with a group feedback session.
*This program includes 3-4 thirty minute walking sessions on wooded trails. The terrain will be uneven and there will be uphill sections.
Included:
Creative writing instruction and guided outdoor experience
Light breakfast
Please bring:
Bradbury gate fee (Maine resident: $4, non-resident: $6, senior non-resident: $2)
Packed lunch, snacks, and water
A notebook and pen or pencil
Sunscreen and bug spray
A warm layer
A small backpack to carry items
Comfortable walking shoes
+ PLEASE NOTE This workshop will occur in person at Bradbury Mountain in Pownal, Maine. The week of the workshop, participants will receive an email with class location with directions, instructions and a map.
Lewis Robinson is the author of the story collection Officer Friendly (Random House, winner of a Whiting Award and the Pen/Oakland Josephine Miles Award) and the novel Water Dogs (a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice selection). His stories and essays have appeared in Sports Illustrated, Tin House, The Baffler, The Missouri Review, Open City and elsewhere and have been featured on N.P.R.’s Selected Shorts. He has received grants from the Whiting Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Lewis holds an M.F.A from University of Iowa and a B.A. from Middlebury College. He is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Maine Farmington.
Sarah Holman is a Registered Maine Guide and the creator of She Hikes Mountains, a blog where she shares trail reviews, images, and personal experiences hiking and backpacking New England’s many peaks. She has joined WBUR Radio Boston as a local hiking expert and is part of the international adventure travel guide team with Adventures in Good Company. Sarah is a regular contributor to Maine Women Magazine and is working toward publication of her first young adult novel. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute
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QUESTIONS
For any questions regarding this workshop, please contact Meghan Sterling at programs@mainewriters.org.
REGISTER BY PHONE
Call 207-228-8263 and register with your VISA or MasterCard.
REGISTER BY MAIL
If you prefer to pay by mail, please print this registration form (downloadable PDF) and mail it to the MWPA with a check or credit card information.
$100 Members / $150 Nonmembers
SCHOLARSHIP
The MWPA is proud to offer one full scholarship to this workshop for members-only. Scholarships are awarded on a combination of need and merit. The scholarship spot is FILLED.
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