Generative Writing Workshop: Field Journaling

In this generative workshop writer and educator Sarah Elgatian will guide participants through taking observations and direction from nature and channeling it into writing. This generative workshop will help participants create work based on the environment at the marsh using letters and lists as structure for our work. Accessible for all experience and skill levels, this class is about being in nature and creating with it.

Instructor Bio: Sarah Elgatian is a writer, educator, and activist whose work blurs genre lines and asks questions. Among other places, her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Crab Fat, Beholder Magazine, and print anthologies including Fifth Wheel Press’s Flux and the Iowa Writers’ House We The Interwoven. Marketing and Program Specialist at the Midwest Writing Center, Sarah facilitates the bi-monthly workshop group Writers’ Studio and the webseries Write More Light.

$15 Member | $20 Guest

*This workshop is part of a three-workshop series. Please see our calendar for additional workshop dates.

*Midwest Writing Center programs are supported by Illinois Humanities and the Illinois Arts Council Agency.