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Join us Saturday, August 16, at the Trees Atlanta Kendeda TreeHouse for a generative writing workshop led by author Janisse Ray!

Lostintheletters and Trees Atlanta are proud to host acclaimed author Janisse Ray for a generative two-hour writing workshop in which we explore the intersection of story and trees.

The session will use mindful observation, sensory details, memories, and prompt-based writing to deepen our connections with trees and treescapes. The craft focus will be on metaphor, how trees can be used as powerful symbols in writing.

About the Instructor:

Janisse Ray is an award-winning American author who explores nature and culture in her work. Her environmental memoir Ecology of a Cracker Childhood chronicled the story of growing up in the disappearing longleaf pine flatwoods. It was a New York Times Notable, is widely read, and is credited with bringing attention to an iconic and critically endangered ecosystem. That was followed by eleven other books. Her latest is a manual on writing, Craft & Current. She has won many awards, including an American Book Award, Pushcart Prize, Southern Booksellers Award, Southern Environmental Law Center Writing Award, Nautilus Award, and Eisenberg Award. Her collection of essays, Wild Spectacle, received the Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence, which carries a $10,000 prize. Her books have been translated into Turkish, French, and Italian. Ray lives on a farm inland from Savannah, Georgia. She loves dark chocolate, the blues, and wildflowers. Find out more at her website, janisseray.com or subscribe to her popular free Substack newsletter, “Trackless Wild.”