Tracker Gathering Workshops and Clinics 

Do you have  experiences/adventures/relationships with the natural world?  Do you have intermediate and advanced levels of tracking or nature adventures?  Do you want to write about these experiences and what they mean to you?

Beginning and intermediate level writers will get the most from this workshop, but for advanced writers, this is an opportunity to get reader response feedback on a short piece you are intending to publish.

Let’s explore very publishable short form natural history writing!

This workshop is run in four parts.

• In the first, we will explore the nuts and bolts of getting words down on paper in ways that call readers to your work. This includes creating a list of pieces you might write.
• The second part will be chosen by participants from this list of topics by majority vote: A) how to get published and how to organize your work for publication, B) concrete steps for revising your work for punch and lyricism, C) creating a writing practice from scratch.
• In the third part, you will have up to two hours to write short form essays on your own. I’ll be available for advice and encouragement.
• In the fourth, we will provide written feedback to create final drafts.

The feedback method is super easy and sufficiently structured. It is also uplifting and kind to the soul. This feedback will be gold to you as a writer, and is difficult to come by outside of a private writing group setting.

Your draft will be incorporated into a chapbook, that I will “publish” in PDF form for participants and others.