Roots and Reunions – SOLD OUT (Join the waitlist)
In this cross-genre and open-form generative workshop, we’ll explore and investigate what is lasting and sustainable across generations on human, landscape, environmental, and cultural levels. How do stories nurture, nourish, replenish, and ground us individually and collectively? How do we distinguish between tradition and habit? Stories can help us remain rooted and/or ignite a desire and lend us the courage to take flight. We’ll read examples from writers including Alistair McLeod, Leslie Marmon Silko, Wendell Berry, Chris Dombrowski, Jane Smiley, Marilynne Robinson, and Judy Blunt. Daily prompts and exercises will be designed toward creating shorter pieces for sharing in workshop while building energy and momentum to carry forward following our week together. Although this will be a virtual workshop, I will be working onsite from Fishtrap.
Robert Stubblefield has published fiction and personal essays in Dreamers and Desperadoes: Contemporary Short Fiction of the American West, Best Stories of the American West, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Left Bank, The Clackamas Literary Review, Cascadia Times, Oregon Humanities, Oregon Salmon: Essays on the State of the Fish at the Turn of the Millennium, Open Spaces, basalt, Southern Humanities Review, Whitefish Review, and High Desert Journal among others. Awards include a Georges and Anne Borchardt scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Fishtrap Fellowship, and Imhaha Writers’ Retreat Fellowship. Robert grew up in Eastern Oregon and now lives in Missoula, Montana and teaches at the University of Montana.