Writing Natural Boston
Writing Natural Boston In-Person
Join local author Maria Pinto in a writing workshop celebrating nature in Boston.
Nature isn’t something you have to travel outside the city to find: our relationships with our neighbors count as nature, the urban paths where our dogs chase pigeons count, too. Franklin Park, the Boston Nature Center, and Stony Brook Reservation are just a few of the green spaces the city has to offer. Boston is teeming with natural beauty and splendor to which we might write odes and even protect with the written word.
Participants in this generative workshop will write to prompts designed to help them look closely at Boston’s natural abundance.
Facilitator Bio:
Maria Pinto is an author, writing consultant, and educator. Her nonfiction has appeared in Orion Magazine, Mushroom People, and Arnoldia, among other publications. She has led workshops and given lectures for the New York Mycological Society, Central Texas Mycological Society, Wisconsin Mycological Society, and Sonoma County Mycological Association. She gives regular mycological forays at Arnold Arboretum. Her book of essays inspired by mushrooms, Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival is forthcoming from Great Circle Books this autumn.
Related LibGuide: Nature Observation by Dana Grey
- Date:
- Saturday, September 6, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Grove Hall
- Branch:
- Grove Hall
- Audience:
- 9-12 Adults
- Categories:
- Community History