Write Your Own Story | ArtFarm at Serenbe

Want to immerse yourself in southern literature for a week and create some literature of your own? Join Janisse Ray, author of the classic Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, in a memoir writing course to get your family and personal stories down on paper and have a lot of fun in the process. You are […]

SOLD OUT | Being in Place | Workshop | Writing & Observing at Funky Little Flower Farm

Funky Little Flower Farm, Beech Island, SC Beech Island, South Carolina

Saturday, March 16, 2024 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Address: Funky Little Flower Farm The Lily Farm in Beech Island, SC is a 1750’s home purchased and renovated by the Farmer family.  Mrs. Farmer (aka Momma), Jenks Farmer and Tom Hall saved the place from ruin. The farm now specializes in rare Crinum lilies and […]

$189

Green Fire Symposium | ASLE | Jacksonville, FL

University of North Florida

More info forthcoming. This event is a collaboration between the University of North Florida and ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment).  

Meet the Author | SOLD OUT–Woods of Fannin | Georgia Writers Museum–SOLD OUT

The Plaza Arts Center Eatonton, Georgia

In the fall of 1945, eight children, brothers and sisters ranging in age from three months to ten years, vanished from a rented bungalow in Morganton, Georgia. They were taken by mule and wagon to a remote shack in the Blue Ridge foothills of Fannin County, near the North Carolina line. For the next four […]

Meet the Author | Georgia Writers Museum | Eatonton–SOLD OUT

The Plaza Arts Center Eatonton, Georgia

Janisse will be speaking at the Plaza Arts Center in Eatonton as part of the Meet-the-Author Series sponsored by the Georgia Writers Museum. Tickets are $20. UPDATE: This event is SOLD OUT.

$20

Paddle Georgia | Love for a River | SOLD OUT

Watermelon Creek Vineyard Glennville, Georgia

Janisse will be speaking to the folks doing Paddle Georgia, which this year is on the Altamaha River. She'll be speaking at Watermelon Creek Vineyard. By invite only.

Journaling Fools | 4 Sunday Sessions | July 7, 14, 21, 28 | Live via Zoom

Online via Zoom

Register here. I've done a lot of foolish things in my life. Back in my early 20s, for example, I jumped out of an airplane. Of course I was wearing a parachute, but still. I don't think I'd do that again. * I've played the fool & been played as a fool. * For the […]

Workshop | Write Your Own Story | Sunday, July 14, 2024 | Live via Zoom

Online via Zoom

$77 | Sunday, July 14, 2024 | 2-6 pm Eastern Time | Live via Zoom You received a treasure of stories from your ancestors, your childhood, your life, places you lived, people you knew, your own children, your opportunities. You’d like to get them down on paper. That keeps you up at night. Sometimes it’s […]

$77