Writing workshop at the Arboretum in January

What Julie and Julia Have To Do With You: A One-Day Writing Workshop
Saturday, January 23
10am-2:30pm / Palm Room
Bring your lunch or visit the Peacock Cafe
$60 members / $65 non-members
(includes a copy of Paula Panich’s book, Cultivating Words: The Guide to Writing about the Plants and Gardens You Love)

Julie and Julia had unquenchable passion. So do you. Whether yours is the garden, food, cooking, wine, travel, herbs, hostas or Hamburg, passion is what it takes to write about what you love. Join journalist, fiction writer and teacher Paula Panich for a workshop about writing about your passion with clarity and brio --- no matter if you want to blog, journal, tweet, or sing on the printed page. We promise you’ll return to your home or office energized, ready to clear off that desk and write, write, write --- one page at a time.

Paula Panich has taught writing to people aged eight to eighty. From the New York Botanical Garden, the Massachusetts Horticulture Society and Boston University to the Getty Center, the Huntington Library, and the Japanese American National Museum, it’s been her privilege to hear about the passion that developing writers have for the world around them. She has contributed to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Gastronomica, and to other publications. She is coauthor of The Desert Southwest and Desert Southwest Gardens (Bantam Books), and is the author of a book about writing. Her short stories have appeared in The Harvard Review, and she is at work on a long, long story, which she would call a novel if only she didn’t understand that writers don’t write books, they write one page at a time.

Please call 626.821.4623 or email jill.berry@arboretum.org to register.