Tahilla Gatherings: Writing and Wellness Retreat
It started with a book…
Many inspiring turns in my life started with a book. Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape the Way We See the Natural World by Kathryn Aalto is one of them.
The book is a celebration of 25 women whose writing has deepened our understanding of the natural world. Featured writers include Dorothy Wordsworth, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Vita Sackville-West, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Nan Shepherd and Mary Oliver to name a few.
Kathryn is a New York Times best-selling author who has written three books including Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape the Way We See the Natural World and The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood. She co-founded the Rural Writing Institute in the Lake District with James Rebanks, author of English Pastoral and The Shepherd’s Life. She is a judge for £10,000 Nature Chronicles Prize in England.
‘Part travel essay, literary biography, and cultural history, Writing Wild ventures into the landscapes and lives of extraordinary writers and encourages a new generation of women to pick up their pens, head outdoors and start writing wild.”
Since reading her book in 2020 I have been grateful for Kathryrn’s guidance through mentoring and classes in Narrative Nonfiction, Nature Writing, Memoir and Life Writing. They helped me shape words and my library in ways that I could have not imagined. Today I count M.F.K. Fisher, Jan Morris, Vladimir Nabokov, Rebecca Solnit, Robert Macfarlane, Camille Dungee, David Sedaris, and Kathleen Jamie as some of my favorite writers.
Kathryn Aalto
It has been a perfect reading and writing recipe for life which makes the following announcement truly exciting.
Tahilla Gatherings presents Retreat Into the New England Woods: An Immersion in Writing and Wellness
This small retreat, October 20-23, is for lifelong learners who want to learn how to write the personal essay and narrative nonfiction. The event is gloriously timed with peak New England foliage in colors of orange, crimson and yellow. Guests will explore and grow in the literary arts, find time for quiet reflection in woods and meadow, and create new friendships with emerging writers.
Please read on for details about this wonderful event!
This event has been POSTPONED to 2023.
