The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm is an exciting new program of lectures and writing workshops. For now, we’ll be meeting over Zoom. After the COVID crisis, most of our programs will meet in the house where Henry was born. Whether you’re a writer ready to submit your manuscript for publishing, looking to strengthen your voice, or searching for a community of writers, you’ll find it at The Write Connection.
Winter 2021 Programs
It’s Your Story: A Memoir Intensive Workshop taught over three one-hour Zoom meetings by Nancy Shohet West. She is a Boston-area journalist who helps individuals, multi-generational families, communities, and special interest groups to write and self-publish their memoirs. Zoom meetings:
Sundays, February 14, 21, and 28, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm. SOLD OUT!
The Art of Joke Writing alongside seasoned stand-up comedian and beloved Boston performer, Kathe Farris. This workshop is held over four Zoom meetings: Sundays, Feb 21, Feb 28, Mar 7, Mar 14, 11am-12:30 pm or 1pm (90 minutes to 2 hour sessions depending on class size). SOLD OUT!
Spring 2021
Featured Event! Author Talk with George Howe Colt. He is the author of The Big House, which was a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Brothers; November of the Soul; and The Game. Friday, June 4, 2021, 7 pm, Location TBA
Writing About Family, a workshop by George Howe Colt. He is the bestselling author of The Big House, which was a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Brothers; November of the Soul; and The Game. He lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife, the writer Anne Fadiman.
Saturday, June 5, 2021, 10am – 3 pm, Thoreau Farm
From Path to Page, a two-day nature writing workshop by Lucille Stott and Sandy Stott. Both Sandy and Lucille are writers, editors, and educators. Lucille is the author of Saving Thoreau’s Birthplace: How Citizens Rallied to Bring Henry Out of the Woods. Sandy is the author of Critical Hours: Search and Rescue in the White Mountains. Sandy and Lucille have also served as editors of Appalachia journal, and they continue to contribute to the journal.
Saturday, June 19, 2021 and Sunday, June 20, 2021, 10 am – 4 pm, Thoreau Farm
Documentary Filmmaking: An Immersive Experience, a two-day workshop led by award-winning documentary filmmaker Melinda Levin. Levin’s work has taken her all over the world, where she examines environmental, cultural, socio-political, arts, and indigenous issues with a Transcendentalist’s eye. She has served as an artist citizen-ambassador for the U.S. Department of State, and has presented in Vietnam, Thailand, Tajikistan, and in remote villages of the Hindu Kush range in the Afghanistan Autonomous Zone.
Saturday, April 17, 2021 and Sunday, April 18, 2021, 10 am – 3 pm, Thoreau Farm
Awaken Your Senses: Write Outside Your Door, a 90-minute workshop led by writer Corinne H. Smith. She is the author of Westward I Go Free: Tracing Thoreau’s Last Journey, and Henry David Thoreau for Kids: His Life & Times, With 21 Activities. Smith will teach the art of mindfulness and observation, the same tools Thoreau employed when documenting the natural world.
Monday, April 19, 2021, 1 pm – 2:30 pm, Thoreau Farm
