THE ARTS AROUND
EASTERN OREGON
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OCTOBER 27�NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Fishtrap offers four-week
online writing workshop
‘Reimagining Environmental Writing’
meets Tuesdays, beginning Nov. 2
Go! staff
E
NTERPRISE — Emily With-
nall, a writer and editor, will
lead an online workshop on
nature and environmental writ-
ing on Tuesdays in November,
beginning Nov. 2 and continuing
every Tuesday through Nov. 23.
The one-hour sessions start
at 6 p.m. Registration is $120,
or $110 for Fishtrappers. Regis-
ter online at www.fi shtrap.org.
This workshop, according to
the Fishtrap website, “will fl ip
traditional understandings of
environmental writing by read-
ing work that pushes the tradi-
tional boundaries of the genre.
Readings, which will be largely
completed outside of workshop
sessions, will serve to help us
redefi ne and reimagine environ-
mental writing.”
Each workshop session will
include discussion of readings
and ideas, brainstorming, and a
generative prompt and writing
time. By the end of the month,
participants will have an essay
drafted, as well as resources for
revision and publication.
Withnall’s work has appeared
in Al Jazeera, Gay Magazine,
The Kenyon Review, River Teeth,
The Indiana Review, Fourth
River, The Rumpus, Orion, and
Ms. Magazine, among others.
She is a recipient of the AWP
Kurt Brown award in creative
nonfi ction, a John Anson Kit-
tredge Foundation grant, and
she has received fellowships
from Fishtrap Summer Work-
shop and Under the Volcano
She currently serves as a fel-
low for Community Change and
she is at work on a book about
domestic violence and hydrau-
lic fracturing. Her work can be
read at emilywithnall.com. Emily
lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
with her two teens.
and using language to create
prose and a story that grabs
readers. All writers of all levels
are welcome. Plan to do some
reading ahead of class and also
write during class.”
Register online at www.fi sh-
trap.org.
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Emily Withnall will teach an
online writing workshop
on Tuesdays in November
through Fishtrap.
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‘THE SECRET OF ENERGY’
Looking ahead, Karen
Auvinen will lead an online writ-
ing workshop titled “The Secret
of Energy” on Saturday, Nov. 13,
from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Registration
is $120 or $110 for Fishtrap-
pers.
This workshop is described
as: “The secret to a great story
is not plot or fantastic charac-
ters but energy. Learn how your
scene, essay, story or poem
explodes off the page when you
learn to control energy. We’ll ex-
plore taking leaps, leaving gaps
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