“Writing the Other-Than-Human World” with Zoë Fay-Stindt
Wednesdays, September 10-24
6:00-8:00pm
Meets online via Zoom
This three-session generative, land-based workshop will practice reverent attention as a means of revitalizing writers’ connections to their local ecosystems. Through field journaling, freewriting, and embodied practice, we will focus on fostering a writing process that reaches toward the other-than-human world, with prompts for generative writing along the way. The works of Natalie Diaz, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ross Gay, and others will help guide us back into reciprocal relation both on and off the page.
Writers of all levels are welcome. The workshop will be open-genre, though poets and nonfiction writers are particularly encouraged to join. Participants will leave with a deepened land-based writing practice as well as several early drafts.
About the Instructor
Zoë Fay-Stindt is a queer, bicontinental poet with roots in both the French and American south. Their work has been Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets nominated, featured or forthcoming in places such as Southern Humanities Review, Ninth Letter, VIDA, Muzzle, Terrain, and Poet Lore, and gathered into a chapbook, Bird Body, winner of Cordella Press’ inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize. They have received scholarships and residencies from Santa Fe Art Institute, Tin House, Orion, Sundress Academy of the Arts, Black Lawrence Press, and others, and they currently facilitate the Spiritual Ecology Study Club at advaya and support the Hellbender Gathering of Poets prepare for its inaugural eco-poetics festival.