Prompt: Whether you come to the park to hike, run, bike, fish, bird-watch, or be with family, your adventures require specific equipment such as a fishing pole, hiking boots, a pair of running shoes, or binoculars. Used frequently, and loved, these things have a history, a story to tell. Write about your bicycle, hiking boots,…
Month: April 2016
Upcoming Nature Writing Hikes and Public Reading!
Nature Writing Hike #1 May 14, 2016 1:00 pm – 3:oopm Delaware Shelter Meet with others at Fort Harrison’s Delaware Shelter to receive writing prompts, discuss nature writing techniques, hike in search of inspiration, write and share your day’s creation. (We will meet and write, rain or shine.) Nature Writing Hike #2 July 9, 2016…
Writing Prompt #3 Examples
Easter, Fall Creek, After Days of Rain by Liza Hyatt In the years since your death, I grew used to living underwater, slowly untangling roots, branches, driftwood, debris. When was it – when I was sleeping? when I was waking ? – that those old snags, hidden below the surface and slowly worked upon by…
Writing Prompt #3: Watershed Moments
Prompt: The word “watershed” refers to areas into which rivers and streams flow. We also describe times of important personal change, as “watershed moments.” At Fort Harrison, the Fall Creek Trail and Camp Creek Trail invite you to observe the Fall Creek watershed ecosystem. Spend some time on these trails observing flowing water. Find a…
Writing Prompt #2: Call and Response
Prompt: Below you will find some lines and passages excerpted from well known poets and prose writers. Take their words with you to your favorite location at Fort Benjamin Harrison State Park. Spend time reflecting on how the words of these writers help you experience the world around you more fully. Select the words, phrases,…
Writing Prompt #1 Examples
In the Language of Leaves by Frederick Michaels Clothed in the rustle of leaves, I am your stately witness, nature’s observer in silence to time’s passage of season. I have longed for a voice, to speak beyond concentric rings of life’s flow from root to trunk, trunk to branch, branch to leaf; to tell you…
Writing Prompt # 1: Other Perspectives
Prompt: Write in the voice of a plant animal or other element of nature. This writing technique helps you see the world from other perspectives.
Introducing Fort Ben Writers
This activity is a signature project of the Indiana Bicentennial Commission, and is made possible, in part, with support from the Indiana Arts Commission, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
Fort Ben Writers 