2008 Essay Guidelines-

3,000 words or less
One essay only per person
8 x 11 white paper, typed, paginated
Name and contact information on separate piece of paper
Previous Winners Not Eligible
$400 Cash Prize, first publication on web site, author owns all rights.
No essays will be returned; they will be shredded.
Only original work to be submitted
Must fill out right to publish authorization form below and send in
Submission $5.00 USA currency only

Writers Rising Up retains the right to split the prize between deserving submissions.

*The contest is in English only and is open to all who live on our shared planet

Send to: Writers Rising Up
16526 W. 78th St #163, Eden Prairie, MN 55346

Submissions must be accompanied by right to publish authorization form:
http://writersrisingup.org/Permission to Publish.pdf

Send in signed form along with essay submission.
For more information contact: writersrisingup@comcast.net

Follow the wheel of the year with us in this four-workshop series.

Each season, writers will meet to read classic and contemporary poems and do creative exercises,focusing on a different poetic form each time—

Odes and elegies; villanelles and sestinas; dramatic monologues; and sonnet—and exploring the form’s
metaphoric equivalent at the arboretum: ephemerals, perennials, invasive species,and seeds.

After having come full circle, writers will celebrate the chapbook, grown over our year together, with a reading and wine reception.

Part of each workshop will be spent journaling outdoors; please wear weather appropriate clothing and
bring a journal and favorite pen.

With Scott King, editor of Red Dragonfly Press and Larry Gavin, Red Dragonfly Press poet.

Dates:
Change to 2009-
Saturday- May 31, 2008- 9:30AM-12:30PM
Saturday- August 16, 2008- 9:30AM-12:30PM
Saturday- October 4, 2008- 9:30AM-12:30PM
Saturday- February 21, 2009- 9:30AM -12:30PM

Reading Chapbook Celebration scheduled for 2009-

Cost to participants included in price of workshop- Gate fee not included.

Non-participants
$5.00 plus, gate fee not included.
Workshops and Submissions to culminate in a chap book published by Red Dragonfly Press.
$75.00 per person per workshop
Gate fee included.

Sign up for four workshops: $300.00

Please send checks to:
Classes
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Indicate dates of workshop sessions
3675 Arboretum Drive
Chaska, MN 55318

Fee Schedule-
$75.00 per workshop-gate fee included
$300 for four workshops-gate fee included

Reading Chap Book Celebration price included. Gate fee included.

Digging to the Roots: Poetic Form and the Natural World Submissions
For consideration in a Chap Book published by Red Dragonfly Press

Submissions if you are not attending a workshop are $5.00 per poem.
(workshop attendees are not required to pay for submitting)
Deadline-February 21, 2009
Send Submissions to:

Writers Rising Up
16526 W. 78th St #163
Eden Prairie, MN 55346

Deadline is Feb 21, 2009
No limit on submissions.

Saturday May 3- 10am-12 PM
Hiking the Maple Basswood Forest with
Minnesota Native Plant Society's
Sean Jergens.
Learn about the trees and shrubs of the forest.

Saturday May 10th- 4pm - 6pm
Landscape Photography: spring through the
camera's eye
With Eden Prairie Photographer Todd Nordquist

June 21- 10 to 11AM
Zoomobile, Minnesota Zoo. Meet some local
critters.
Buggy Poetry Contest

Saturday June 28th 10 to 12Noon
Native Medicine: recognizing native plants and uses
Visit the Bottomland Forest, Big Woods, Sedge
Meadow and Prairie Biomes with Yako Tahnahga,
Native Ojibwa Herbalist

Sunday, September 7th- 1 -3 PM
Leaf Pounding for Kids
With shirley Mah Kooyman, botanist Minnesota
Landscape Arboretum
Leafing Poetry Vicki Pellar Price

Saturday, October 4th- 10 to 12PM
Hiking the Prairie and Oak Savanna: Excursion
on the Minnesota River Bluff
With Sean Jergens, Minnesota Native Plant Society

Saturday, Oct. 11th, 3pm-5pm
Landscape Photography: fall through the
camera's eye
With Eden Prairie Photographer Todd Nordquist