Writing Where We Are: An Exploration of Documentary Writing Practices Workshop

Writing Where We Are: An Exploration of Documentary Writing Practices

How do we write our locality? How do we creatively document the past and present of the land that supports us? Join poet, essayist, and CSU Professor, Sasha Steensen, for an exploration of the intersection between creative practice and documentary writing. Together we will explore materials related to regional history and geography, and we will consider methods for transforming these materials into our own writing.  As author and creator of Overland: An Incomplete History of Three Acres and All That Surrounds (https://www.sashasteensen.com/overland), Steensen has been seeking ways to ethically, and creatively, explore local history for over a decade.  This course will meet in The Archive at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery where we will employ documents and objects related to regional history for our own writing experiments. Weather permitting, we may also visit the Poudre River (just steps away from the museum) to consider how engagement with the land itself can influence our writing.

In collaboration with Poudre Libraries as part of Book Fest 2025. To learn more about Book Fest click here.

Location:
The Archive 
Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, 408 Mason Ct, Fort Collins, CO 80524