Online Poetry Workshop with Derek Sheffield
The course: The Weave of Your Life in World and Poem We humans have been writing about the natural world since we first started scratching images into rock and, by now, Continue reading
Online Poetry Workshop with Todd Davis
The course: Writing the Greater-than-Human World Our poetry workshop will focus on poems and various poetics that seek to move beyond a solely human perspective to adopt the concerns and perspectives of Continue reading
Online Nonfiction Workshop with Gary Ferguson
The Course: What the Land Inspires Literary critic Frank Stewart described writers whose work focuses on nature as “bringing together the scientific and the poetic,” to render something bigger than the Continue reading
Online Nonfiction Workshop with Alison Hawthorne Deming
The Course: This nonfiction workshop will focus on the art of scientific storytelling in facing the challenges of the Anthropocene. Our aim is to learn together how to tell vivid science-smart Continue reading
Online Nonfiction/Poetry Hybrid Workshop with CMarie Fuhrman
The course: Writing Resilience through Our Relationship with Wildness We live in a time when most poets and writers feel more and more anxiety, stress, overwhelm, and confusion in their lives. Continue reading
A Tree’s View of History: A Conversation with Lacy M. Johnson
OnlineThe Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment and Orion Magazine present a conversation with Lacy M. Johnson on American history and the longleaf pine. Building off her recent Continue reading
Online Nonfiction Workshop with Jessica J. Lee
The course: This nonfiction course will center on long-form nature writing, personal essays, and a wealth of contemporary work inspired by the more-than-human world. We’ll examine ways of portraying our changing Continue reading
Online Poetry Workshop with Leah Naomi Green
OnlineThe course: The Storytelling Animal: Nature, Language, and Self This will be a gathering of people who want to build trust: in one another, in the process of writing, and in Continue reading
Online Fiction/Nonfiction Hybrid Workshop with Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
OnlineThe course: The World Through New Eyes When we step out into our surroundings, our senses build a world for us full of sights and sounds and textures that we understand Continue reading
Online Nonfiction Writing Workshop with Pam Houston
OnlineThe course: This will be a 6-week prose workshop that will be about using the physical world around us to access our inner depths and draw out the best stories we Continue reading
Online Nonfiction Writing Workshop with Lisa Wells
OnlineThe course: Crossing the Threshold As Ecclesiastes and Fleetwood Mac teach us: life moves in seasons. How have writers throughout time navigated the transformative passages of human and greater-than-human life? The Continue reading
Orion Celebrates the More-than-Human World
OnlineAn event for the whole family (including those with fur, feathers, and scales). Join us on May 9 at 6 p.m. ET to meet: AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL's chihuahua, FRANCISCO CANTU's chicken, PAM HOUSTON's donkey, and Continue reading