The Nurturing Nature of Words — and Our World
Week 7 | August 8–11 | Hultquist Center 201B | Ages: 16+
Reconnect with the natural world through the words of writers who invite us into a reciprocal, healing relationship with it, including Henry David Thoreau, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, and Robin Wall Kimmerer. We'll use passages of their works to inspire writing about our own experiences with nature, and to deepen our appreciation for its gifts. We'll also explore a number of fun, easy methods to help your words flow, whatever your level of writing experience.
Class Times
Students should come to class prepared with the following materials:
- Notebook;
- Pen;
- Laptop (optional)

Maureen Ryan Griffin
B.S., Indiana University of PA, education. Twenty years' experience teaching writing/creativity. Award-winning author of Spinning Words into Gold and Ten Thousand Cicadas Can't Be Wrong. Recipient, CHQ Writer's Center's Mary Jean Irion Award, 1998; first place in CHQ Readers & Writers Poetry Contest, 2007; Irene Blair Honeycutt Legacy Award, 2018.