Nov 13, 2025 1:00 PM | Writing Nature Now: Writing (and publishing!) for Planet Earth
Posted in: Upcoming Events
This event is a writing workshop with award-winning author Laura Pritchett, who joins a hybrid seminar via zoom.
“The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” So writes Richard Powers in The Overstory, and in this class we’ll be focusing on writing stories that change people’s minds (in all genres, including fiction, poetry, and nonfiction). Come with a notebook or laptop and be ready to dive into a rigorous few hours of reading, writing, and craft talks about nature writing today.
Laura Pritchett is a prize-winning author of Three Keys (Ballantine Books 2024), “Sleeping Bear Speaks to Nova,” Terrain, February 2024, and many other works of fiction and non-fiction.
Where: Dickson Hall, Room 333 and via Zoom. For link: click here.
Speaker
Laura Pritchett’s fiction is rooted in the natural world—and celebrates the people who live close to it. She’s the author of seven novels, two nonfiction books, and editor of three anthologies, and her work has been the recipient of the PEN USA Award, the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the WILLA, the High Plains Book Award, and several Colorado Book Awards. She’s also a freelance writer with publications in the LA Times, The New York Times, Orion, Terrain, Creative Nonfiction, and more. She holds a PhD from Purdue and she developed and directs the low-residency MFA in Nature Writing at Western Colorado University, one of the few graduate programs dedicated to writing about the natural world.
