A Growing Gathering Around Plants and Stories The latest Writing (with) Plants session brought together a large and geographically diverse group of participants for a two-hour online gathering dedicated to marsh reeds and the myth of Syrinx. I […]
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The Writing(with)plants care(work)book is here – Reserve Your Copy
The book What if writing could become a form of care? The care(work)book grows out of five years of writing(with)plants sessions, collective gatherings where people write alongside plants and landscapes, slowing down to notice, reflect and imagine […]
You are invited to join writing(with)Marsh reed and Michael Marder on March 8th
Yes, that’s a lot of M’s in the title. What if we didn’t rewrite dark myths into prettier stories, but learned how to walk through them together? On Sunday, March 8th, 15-17.00 (Brussels time), join us […]
Writing with Place and Mythopoetic Plants: Marsh Reed and the Medusa Head Cactus
In January, Lisa Sattell hosted two sessions focused on the same plant: Medusa Head, a cactus that is, botanically speaking, not quite a cactus. She also emphasized that these were not simply writing-with-plants sessions, but writing-with-mythopoetic-plants sessions, because these […]
Writing(with) Hogweed on Friday 10 October 2025
Update 16 October: The announcement became a musing with some reflections afterwards. Why this plant? After Vitalija Povilaityte-Petri, one of the co-founders of writing(with)plants, representing a bigger collective did a session on the Dose Symposium […]
Siding with Cedar
Language is a scaffold for architectures which create, inform and shape infrastructures- actual spaces for connection, coherence and sensemaking among cultural and biological complex adaptive systems which are relational, multilayered and shifting over time and […]
Writing(with)mugwort on Friday 12 september
Update (25 September): This blogpost has been transformed from an announcement and call to join… to a musing where you can find the slides (free download link) and some notes. The call (sent in august […]
Flowing with Eglė: Ash, Blood, Passover, Sacrifice
As aforementioned, this spring and summer, we are combining the method of Writing (with) plants with the Flowing with Eglė – Project, where we create a new eco-myth. In this old myth, different human characters […]
Writing(with)Oak trees – an outdoor experiment in Denmark and Discovering the initial thread for a new journey into financial ecofeminism.
Over the past few years, most of our writing sessions were conducted online within plant circles, with participants generally isolated in their rooms. Despite this, we were aware that some participants chose to walk outside […]
What would you like to learn about the Ash Tree? (Preparing the Writing(with)Ash session, 16 April)
It’s time for another writing session with plants. This time, we welcome another progeny of Eglė—the Ash Tree. Although Baltic mythology doesn’t specifically highlight ash trees, these trees are steeped in rich mythology, folklore, and […]
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 