Path to Page: Hiking & Writing Date TBD

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Date TBD 1:00 – 4:00 For writers at any level, but especially for those interested in creating history – inspired pieces. Explore your creative muse this fall. Enjoy hiking through select farms, woods and fields of the lovely Port Oneida historic region with local poet and playwright Anne-Marie Oomen. With the beautiful surroundings and oral history of the farms as your inspiration, along with guidance and instruction from Anne-Marie, you will have the opportunity to write and share some creative prose. About Anne-Marie Oomen Anne-Marie Oomen, who received the Michigan Author Award for 2024, is a poet, playwright, essayist and memoirist published throughout the country. Her nine books and individual essays have earned a variety of honors, including five Michigan Notable Book Awards and the AWP Sue Silverman Award for Creative Nonfiction for her memoir As Long As I Know You: the Mom Book (University of Georgia Press). Her most recent collection is The Long Fields: Essays of Comfort and Home. She has taught Poetry Workshops and Life Writing at the Solstice MFA at Lasell University and Interlochen College of Creative Arts. Her focus in recent years has been celebrating local land and water projects through writing. Cost: $100 per person. Small notebook journal provided. Registration limited to 15 people.