The workshop is in environmental life writing, or place-based autobiography, offering the pleasures of discovering the profound embeddedness of the self in its world. It is envisioned as a hybrid, combining readings in literature with a creative writing workshop; participants may write either creative nonfiction essays or prose poems, focusing on the interrelationship between the self and the environment. Includes up to 25 pages of manuscript review in the workshop and up to 25 in private consultation; critique of longer manuscripts is available for an additional fee. Applicants accepted pending review of writing samples by Ann Fisher-Wirth.

Dates: Sunday, January 10– Saturday, Janurary 16, 2016

Deadline: October 22, 2015; Notifications: by November 3, 2015

Workshop fee: $1500/$1650 or $1200 each for a couple

To apply Click here. (Application fee: $10).

For more information on Ann Fisher-Wirth click here.