On Saturday December 21st please join us at BookTree in Kirkland for a very special 3rd Saturday Creative Writing Workshop (note the 4pm start time) and For Love of Orcas Anthology Reading (6:15pm) plus open mic.
Our ready to share Orcas Facebook Event Page is here.
Workshop 4pm to 6pm The writing workshop “From Grief to Gratitude – Nature Writing Toward Repairing Our World.” This will be a generative writing workshop co-facilitated by Jill McCabe Johnson and Adrienne Ross Scanlan. Participants will read and discuss short prose and poems and then create their own work.
Reading at 6:15pm followed by an open mic. The For Love of Orcas readers will include: Ronda Piszk Broatch, Gail Folkins, Heather Durham and others.
For Love of Orcas Anthology -
After the Southern Resident orca Tahlequah swam with her newly born dead calf for 17 days, scientists, poets, and writers responded to her grief and the plight of the endangered orcas in this moving anthology. Edited by poets Andrew Shattuck McBride and Jill McCabe Johnson, the anthology features poetry, essays, and environmental writing from more than ninety esteemed authors. Wandering Aengus Press is donating proceeds from the book to the SeaDoc Society for their efforts in helping restore the Southern Resident orca population.
Bios
Gail Folkins often writes about her deep roots in the American West. Her books include Texas Dance Halls: A Two-Step Circuit, and Light in the Trees, a nature finalist in the 2017 Foreword Indie Awards.
Heather Durham is the author of the 2019 memoir-in-essays, Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust, explorations of a restless human animal seeking authenticity and belonging in the more-than-human world. Heather holds a master of science in environmental biology and a master of fine arts in creative nonfiction, and currently works behind the scenes at Wilderness Awareness School. Learn more at heatherdurhamauthor.com.”
Jill McCabe Johnson is the author of three poetry collections, a nonfiction chapbook, and three edited anthologies. Honors include a Nautilus Book Award, Academy of American Poets award, and support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Hedgebrook, and Artist Trust. Recent work has appeared in The Southeast Review, Terrain.org, Tishman Review, Raven Chronicles, and Barely South Review. She teaches writing at Skagit Valley College and is the founding publisher of Wandering Aengus Press.
Adrienne Ross Scanlan’s creative nonfiction has appeared in Tikkun, Ritualwell, City Creatures blog, the Prentice Hall Reader, Sugar Mule, Pilgrimage, Tiny Lights, and many other print or online journals. She is a reviewer at the New York Journal of Books, was the nonfiction editor of the Blue Lyra Review, and is the author of Turning Homeward—Restoring Hope and Nature in the Urban Wild.
(more bios soon)