Name: Nature Writing
Start: 2024-06-11T13:30:00-0600
End: 2024-06-11T15:30:00-0600

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Tuesday June 11, 2024 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT

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.

Speakers

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

Type Craft Seminar

Lit Fest 2024

Amitava Kumar

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