Writing the Self, Writing the World
The Wrangell Mountains Writing Workshop
June 22-26, 2022
The Wrangell Mountains Writing Workshop
One of our longest-running, most impactful workshops
the Wrangell Mountains Writing Workshop is back!
June 22-26, 2022
Corinna Cook and Mary Odden will lead this 4-day workshop at the Old Hardware Store.
COST: $700
Locals Discount: $150
$100 Discount for Students, WMC Members, and Alumni/former participants of the Writing Workshop
Need-based scholarships available
Writing the Self, Writing the World
Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral? Who are we in nature?
Who are we in our families? How do we fit into the histories that surround us?
With a combination of indoor writing spaces and outdoor explorations in Alaska’s stunning Wrangell Mountains and emblematic historic towns, workshop participants will take a deep dive into the craft of writing.
Beyond the four-day immersion in idea and craft, participants will have opportunities to share their work, conference with instructors, and meet socially around meals and campfires. The setting is ideal for solitary writing and reflection alongside the workshop community of instructors and writers.
Located in North America’s largest National Park, the WMC Writer’s Workshop is three-decades in the running. The mission of the Wrangell Mountains Center is to connect people with wildlands, a connection that stimulates and cultivates new and deeper forms of creativity.
An immersive writing experience
As a place-based workshop, writers will be led into nature and guided among the historic relics of the old mining town of Kennicott, with instructor sessions taking place on-site. There will also be time for immersive writing, while at the edge of the 27 mile Kennicott Glacier or surrounded by the mining buildings from a century past.
A nonfiction workshop designed to inspire writers of all genres
The creative nonfiction essay will serve as our lens: we’ll draw lessons of form and craft from essays that take rocks and trees as muse, essays that walk and talk into their subjects, and essays that peer through the physical relics of history in McCarthy and Kennecott.
Because essayistic thinking supports writing across memoir, fiction, and poetry, writers can apply the varied learning/writing sessions to further their projects-in-process, or to inspire new work. We invite published authors, aspiring writers, readers and thinkers of all stripes invested in the wider-than-human theatre we live in.
Writers of all stages of development will benefit, from those who have publication and technical expertise to those armed only with a spark of inspiration and a fistful of old family letters
INSTRUCTORS
Corinna Cook
Corinna Cook is the author of Leavetakings, an essay collection. She is a former Fulbright Fellow, an Alaska Literary Award recipient, and a Rasmuson Foundation awardee. Corinna’s PhD is in English and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri. Corinna is a life-long Alaskan who splits time between Anchorage and McCarthy. More at corinnacook.com.
Mary Odden
Mary Odden has lived and worked in rural Alaskan places: as a wildfire and aviation dispatcher, teen counselor, writing teacher, small newspaper owner/editor. Her work has appeared in journals and magazines, including the Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cirque, and Alaska Magazine. Odden’s book of memoir/essays, Mostly Water: Reflections Rural and North, was published in June 2020 by Boreal Books/Red Hen Press.
REGISTRATION
For more information contact: info@wrangells.org.
Choose to pay in full or a deposit
COST: $700
Discounts and Financial Assistance Available
Locals Discount: $150
$100 Discount for Students, WMC Members, and Alumni/former participants of the Writing Workshop
(One discount per person)
Email jon@wrangells.org for more information and for discount code (to be applied at checkout)
Need-based scholarships are also available to assist with cost — email jon@wrangells.org for more information
Deposit $300 now to save your spot in the writing workshop, with the balance due June 15.
Please contact us at info@wrangells.org if you have any issues with our payment portal
Price includes meals; program participants must secure their own lodging. We strongly recommend planning your accommodations well in advance. Contact us for lodging suggestions and recommendations. The WMC has a limited number of guest rooms available. Email jon@wrangells.org to inquire about pricing and availability.
Check in: 3pm-6pm on June 22 at the Wrangell Mountains Center (First Supper at 6pm followed by Welcome, Introductions, Expectations and Campus Instructions.) Course concludes with breakfast on June 27.
Click the button below to learn more about the history of the Wrangell Mountains Writing Workshop.
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”