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Lit Fest 2024
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Tuesday, June 11 • 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Nature Writing

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What can we learn about writing and also about the world from nature writing? This craft seminar will present examples from some classic texts—Thoreau's Walden, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, and others—to inspire short writing exercises that help grasp what is urgent and beautiful about nature writing.
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Amitava Kumar

Visiting Author
Amitava Kumar is a writer and journalist who has published several works of nonfiction and three novels. His most recent title, The Blue Book: A Writer's Journal, is a collection of drawings and journal entries. Kumar's writing has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Harper’s... Read More →

Tuesday June 11, 2024 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
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  Fiction   Nonfiction/Memoir   Hybrid   Poetry