Wednesdays, January 29 – February 19, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Writing the Garden of Your Life
Join veteran teacher, award-winning memoirist, and avid gardener Jennifer Browdy for a series of four Berkshire Botanical Garden wintertime workshops (Wednesdays, Jan. 29 to Feb. 19, from 10 a.m. to noon) using gardening as a theme for personal writing. You can write about your gardening experiences, and/or write about your life using gardening as a metaphor.
Sessions will be organized around the following themes, with writing prompts that can be taken literally or metaphorically:
1. Designing with vision and intention
2. Composting, pruning and deadheading, and preparing new beds
3. Planting seeds and bulbs, and welcoming the sap and new shoots
4. Cultivating, weeding and fertilizing
Along the way, you’ll learn about Jennifer’s unique “elemental journey” framework for writing memoirs, and benefit from her decades of experience as a writing professor, author coach, editor, and publisher.
Come meet other writer-gardeners and brighten up the winter season with the creative bloom of memoir writing in good company!
Jennifer Browdy, PhD, is a professor of literature, writing and media arts at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and the online global Bard Open Society University Network. Her latest book, Purposeful Memoir as a Quest for a Thriving Future, was a 2022 Nautilus Gold Award winner and a 2022 Gold Award winner in the Independent Press Awards. Her writer’s guide, The Elemental Journey of Purposeful Memoir, won a 2017 Nautilus Silver Award, and her memoir, What I Forgot …And Why I Remembered, was a finalist for the 2018 International Book Awards. Offering writing workshops, author coaching and manuscript review, Jennifer is the publisher of Green Fire Press and co-host of the Birth Your Truest Story online writers’ community. She has led writing workshops at many venues locally, nationally and internationally, including Bioneers, Kripalu, Mount Holyoke, the Mount, the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia, and many more. She publishes two Substack newsletters, Writing to Right the World & The Spirit of Education, and leads an annual memoir retreat in Tuscany as well as Riding and Writing trips to Portugal and Iceland.
Register for the series ($200 for BBG members, $220 for nonmembers) at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/writing-garden-your-life
