Writing Journey Series: Writing Journey 2 – Collecting Honey Drops

$20.00

Are you looking for a new kind of adventure in creativity?

 Perhaps one, or both of the brief sessions of Writing Journeys is for you

Together online we will go on a multimedia, multi-genre adventure in sharing words

Catherine will be offering a another online writing workshop on March 5 entitled: Journey I: Window Into Place.  Students may take the classes individually, or as a series.

Description

Date: March 19, 2025  Online, via Zoom

6:30 – 8:00 pm CST

Skill Level:  This workshop is for anyone curious about ideas put to page — from those who love writing creatively to those who are simply seeking a creative adventure!

Class Registration Fee:  $20.00

 

Class description:  Have you ever longed to write and are seeking a way to begin?

Perhaps you want to learn how to enliven your stories — real or imagined — with sensory details or food? Or perhaps you’d like to capture the story of a food tradition?

Join this workshop with author, Catherine Young and embark on a savory journey with playful, delectable prompts. We will spark our writing with ideas from poetry, prose, imagery — and maybe a recipe or two.

Materials fee: (To be collected directly from students by instructor in class):  none

Students need to bring the following supplies:

Writing tools: any tools you love to use for writing, including pen notebook, tablet device. Additionally, please have coloring tools  blank paper available.

Catherine Young is a disabled writer and performing artist whose work is infused with a keen sense of place. She deeply believes in the use of story and art as tools for transforming the world.

Catherine is author of the ecopoetry collection Geosmin (Midwest Book Award) and the environmental memoir, Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored by Coal.  Her work appears internationally and nationally in literary journals. A nominee for the Pushcart Prize in prose and poetry and Best American Essays, Catherine is a recipient of a Terry Foundation Edenfred Fellowship and has been honored as a  finalist for Wisconsin Poet Laureate. She worked as a national park ranger, farmer, educator, and mother before completing her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. She leads writing workshops and records the weekly Landward podcast.

Rooted in farm life, Catherine lives with her family in Wisconsin’s Driftless Area where she is totally in love with meandering streams. More is found at:
http://www.catherineyoungwriter.com/ and https://wdrt.org/landward/.