Name: Workshop: Eco-Writing with Janisse Ray
Start: 2025-08-16T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-16T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Trees Atlanta

Lostintheletters and Trees Atlanta are proud to host acclaimed author Janisse Ray for a two-hour writing workshop where we explore the intersection of story and trees. The session will use mindful observation, sensory details, memories, and prompt-based writing to deepen our connections with trees and treescapes. The craft focus will be on metaphor, and how trees can be used as powerful symbols in writing.
Workshop participants are encouraged to attend the live reading portion of this event later that same evening, featuring dynamic readings from Janisse Ray, Iman Person, and Christopher Martin, as well as sound installation pieces by Becca Rodriguez and Erin Palovick. Learn more here.
About the Instructor: Janisse Ray is an award-winning American author who explores nature and culture in her work. Her environmental memoir Ecology of a Cracker Childhood chronicled the story of growing up in the disappearing longleaf pine flatwoods. It was a New York Times Notable, is widely read, and is credited with bringing attention to an iconic and critically endangered ecosystem. That was followed by eleven other books. Her latest is a manual on writing, Craft & Current. She has won many awards, including an American Book Award, Pushcart Prize, Southern Booksellers Award, Southern Environmental Law Center Writing Award, Nautilus Award, and Eisenberg Award. Her collection of essays, Wild Spectacle, received the Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence, which carries a $10,000 prize. Her books have been translated into Turkish, French, and Italian. Ray lives on a farm inland from Savannah, Georgia. She loves dark chocolate, the blues, and wildflowers. Find out more at her website or subscribe to her popular free Substack newsletter, “Trackless Wild.”
About Lostintheletters: Lostintheletters is an Atlanta-based 501(c)(3) organization that empowers community members to effectively and artistically amplify their stories and experiences through creative writing and literacy empowerment. Founded in 2012, Lostintheletters builds and sustains Atlanta's literary community to be a place of vital creative communication and exchange through low-cost, high-quality education programs, including weekly Writing Studio Hours, the quarterly-presented Reading & Workshop Series, and the annual Letters Festival. The organization believes communities and individuals thrive when they have equitable access to opportunities to develop their skills and knowledge.
City Forest Certification: The City Forest Certification is Trees Atlanta’s newest community action program. This hands on program is designed to guide and empower everyday people with practical knowledge and skills. Neighbor by neighbor and property by property, we can grow and connect a network of forests big and small. By attending this program you can earn 1 Acorn towards your City Forest Certification.
View our full Calendar of Events at treesatlanta.org/events.