Poetry & Prose: A Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Writers' Workshop

2055 Idlewild Drive,Reno NV 89509

24 April, 2022

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Join us at beautiful Idlewild Park for Wild Writing With The Senses with Steven Nightingale and Richard Nevle Wild Writing with the Senses Join Us Sunday, April 24th at the Reno Earth Day Celebration at Reno's beautiful Idlewild Park In this workshop, we’ll use visceral engagement with the senses to open new paths in your writing that can help make story elements more accessible to readers. We’ll use evocative images, unexpected smells, and diverse sounds from the wild, along with several guided writing prompts to conjure forgotten stories and inspire you to imagine new ones. Please bring your sense of adventure, ready to do some wild writing together. Please note that the workshop will take place at the Reno Earth Day Festival which will require a 10 -15 minute walk from the festival parking lot to Idlewild Park. You'll need to bring a camping/beach chair, and your favorite writing implement along with something to write in/on. You'll receive an email in advance of the workshop letting you know where we'll be meeting up, etc. We look forward to having you join us! Steven Nightingale Steven Nightingale is the author of ten books: two novels, six books of sonnets, a long essay on the city of Granada, Spain, and a book of short fiction about extraordinary women. A book on the Sierra Nevada, The Paradise Notebooks, is forthcoming in 2022 from Cornell University Press. His interests include the medieval art of Spain and Italy, the wild country of the American West, astronomy, venture capital, and Emily Dickinson, whom he loves. Chief among his pleasures is teaching by invitation, these last many years, in over forty schools and universities in Nevada and California. Steven serves as sole Trustee of the Nightingale Family Foundation, which works to make sure that the beauties and blessings of art and culture are open and available to every child and to everyone in our community. He is a graduate of Stanford University, the 2021 Nevada Writers Hall of Fame inductee, lives currently in his beloved home state of Nevada, and travels semi-responsibly to wild places, and, as well, to the beautiful Albayzin, a barrio in Granada, Spain. Richard J. Nevle Richard J. Nevle is a naturalist, teacher, and environmental scientist. He is the Deputy Director of the Earth Systems Program at Stanford and a recipient of the university’s highest teaching honor. He lives in San José, California adjacent to a garden full of wild things. He is co-author of The Paradise Notebooks, due out this month.