Description
Date: March 5, 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 about a place you love and are seeking a way to begin?
Or perhaps you want to learn how to enliven your stories — real or imagined — with a rich sense of place?
Join this workshop with author, Catherine Young, and embark on a journey of discovery. We will spark our writing with prompts from poetry, song and imagery.
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/.