Date: Tuesdays, 2/25, 3/4, 3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/1
Format: Elk Rapids Library and Online via Zoom
Time: Class on 2/24 and 4/1 are in person from 5-7PM; remaining classes are held via Zoom from 5:30-7:30 PM
Class Size: 10-12
Grade Level: Middle School; Grades 5-8
This class will practice listening and responding to our environment through writing. Since we experience the world around us by our senses, we will attempt to use our senses through writing to deepen and expand our experience and better appreciate the natural world. How will we do this? By reading some great nature writing AND by having as much fun as possible playing with language, imagination, memory, and observation. The result will be some great writing of our own as well as new skills that can be applied to any kind of writing.
All enrolled students will have the opportunity to publish work in the 2025 issue of the National Writers Series’ Literary Journal.
This is a hybrid class: the first (Feb. 21) and last (April 1) meeting will be in person at the Elk Rapids Library from 5-7 PM; the remaining classes will be held on Zoom from 5:30-7:30 PM.
About: David Hornibrook
David Hornibrook is the author of Night Manual (Wayne State University Press, 2019), winner of the Moveen Prize in Poetry. His work was also the receipient of a Pushcart Prize and has been published in a variety of places including The Windsor Review, Juked, Third Coast, and Thrush Poetry Journal. David holds an MFA from the Helen Zell Writer’s Program and lives in Petoskey, Michigan.
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