A writing(with)plants session is a two-hour guided gathering where participants slow down, learn more from, with and about plants and plant people, and foster imagination muscles. The session is for free, but you have to […]
Tag: nature writing
Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s Thin Places in Troubled Landscapes, from self-medication to naming the shapeshifters
Sometimes I am reminded of my own naivety… by a good travel and … reinforced by a good book written by people from the land I visited. When people ask me why I am interested […]
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 […]
2 new writing(with)plants sessions in November 2022
Often we underestimate the power of plants. We, humans, think often that we are the only stewards or helpers of the earth, but plants can be our allies too. Therefore, we organise virtual circles where […]
Ecofeminism anno 2022: writing wild
This winter, one of the mentors of the writers academy in Antwerp, recommended me this book. I bought it. I do not get only inspiration for my current fiction book, but I also start dreaming […]
A woman in the polar night, a woman in lockdown
“In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen to spend there a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be […]