Writing Nature with Amber Blaeser-Wardzala

Join Amber Blaeser-Wadzala for an environmental, collaborative workshop fo all ages! You’ll go for a walk along Write On’s trails, stopping occasionally to observe the world for extended periods of time and to write down your observations. Through various prompts and by looking at both the broader landscape and a single object to study and describe, participants will create a collaborative poem.

This session is free but registration is required as space is limited.

Amber Blaeser-Wardzala is an Anishinaabe writer, beader, and Jingle Dress Dancer from White Earth Nation in Minnesota. She received her MFA from Arizona State University and was the 2024-25 George Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy. Her writing is published in the bestselling Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, The Iowa Review, Joyland, Passages North, CRAFT, and others. Blaeser-Wardzala is a 2022 Tin House Fellow and a 2021 Fellow for the inaugural Women’s National Book Association Authentic Voices Program. Her short fiction was a finalist for Best of the Net and nominated for a Pushcart. She is a Visiting Professor of Fiction at Ohio State University. Her novel and short story collection are forthcoming from Pantheon Books in 2027 and 2029.