Instructor: Elizabeth Bradfield
Monday - Friday
Augst 5 - 9
9am - 12pm
5 sessions
“It is solved by walking” – St. Augustine.
A naturalist’s attention to the world can enhance any writer’s eye for detail. This poetry workshop is geared toward increasing our capacity to experience and express. Give yourself the gift of time to focus on your writing skills at Castle Hill. Award-winning writers bring their depth of experience and provide guidance to enhance and help develop their writing skills through thought provoking, inventive workshops. No matter what your experience, we offer writing workshops for everyone. wonderment through the rich intersections of observation, knowledge, movement, and memory. In our search, we will wander toward wonder through readings, natural history-focused walks, writing assignments, and conversations.
Expect to spend time each day outside, in all weathers (hats, sunscreen, water, insect repellent are essential). A notebook, comfortable bag, and binoculars are wonderful, as is a pad for sitting. We can adjust our destinations based on desire and mobility. Class will meet at Edgewood Farm.
Writer/naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of the Once Removed, Approaching Ice, Interpretive Work and Toward Antarctica which combines her photographs with brief, hybrid essays. She is co-editor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry and Broadsided Press: Fifteen Years of Poetic/Artistic Collaboration, 2005-2020 as well as a founding member of the Theorem Collective. Her poems havebeen published in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Founder and editor-in-chief of Broadsided Press, she works as a naturalist/field assistant locally and teaches creative writing at Brandeis University. www.ebradfield.com