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The Vast Importance of Small Spaces in Nature

126A, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
Thursday, March 24, 2022
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

How do creative nonfiction writers craft layered or intricate essays by focusing on small spaces, or what others might somehow overlook? A creek, a garden, a park, a tide pool, an ant hill, a sand dune, a river’s reach, a prairie dog burrow, an owl’s nest—our panel will discuss how we apply close observation and contemplation to reveal larger issues about the environment in our work. Protest or preservation can take root in the most commonly known or miniature and otherwise unseen places.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_Small_Spaces_in_Nature_Panel_Questions.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Allen Gee is the DL Jordan Endowed Professor of creative writing and editor of CSU Press at Columbus State University. He is author of My Chinese-America (essays), and At Little Monticello (a forthcoming biography of James Alan McPherson).

Susan Fox Rogers is the author of My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir and the editor of eleven anthologies including Antarctica: Life on the Ice, compiled via an NSF grant, and When Birds Are Near: Dispatches from Contemporary Writers. She has been writer in residence at Bard College since 2001.

Sean Hill, the author of two books of poems, Dangerous Goods and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, directs the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference. His honors and awards include a fellowship from the NEA. His poems have appeared in journals and in anthologies including Black Nature and Villanelles.

Renata Golden has published numerous essays online and in print about the natural world. She is working on an essay collection about the Chiricahua Mountains where the borders of two states and two countries meet. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston.

CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems and coeditor of Native Voices. Cmarie is director of Elk River Writers Workshop and faculty in the graduate program in creative writing at Western Colorado University.

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