1 Day Workshop: Fostering the Connection with Lily Kingsolver

As part of the 2024 Listowel Writer's Week festival programme, the theme for which is Mother Nature, here is an exciting workshop opportunity for everyone interested in writing for children, particularly writers starting out.

The Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver has co-authored a children's book with her daughter Lily Kinsgolver. It's called Coyote's Wild Home, and it was published to great acclaim last year by Gryphon Press, with beautiful illustrations by Paul Mirocha.

Lily Kingsolver is a guest of Writer's Week this year. In addition to being in conversation with writer and broadcaster Anja Murray on June 1st, she is also offering this exclusive workshop, in which she will disclose some of the secrets behind Coyote's WIld Home.

Here's what Lily Kinsgolver herself has to say about her Listowel Writer's Week workshop:

‘Join me in my Listowel Writer’s Week workshop class, titled Fostering the Connection: Environmental Writing for Children, to discuss writing on environmental topics for children, how to reach young readers in developmentally appropriate ways based on educational research, and the connection we’re all seeking to each other and to our natural world. Come prepared to write, share your thoughts, and join a conversation about reaching readers of all ages and writing intentionally from an environmental perspective.’

More about Lily Kingsolver

Lily Kingsolver co-authored, with Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed children's book Coyote's Wild Home. She grew up in southwest Virginia in the US, where the Appalachian Mountains ignited her passion for wild creatures and the places they live. She has shared her love of the wild as a naturalist and educator in state parks and zoos in southwest Virginia and the Space Coast of Florida, where she is working on a

graduate degree in environmental education. She lives in Florida with her husband, dog, frog, and several reptiles.

Disclaimer. Please be aware that many events at Listowel Writers' Week will be recorded and photographed for promotional and archival purposes. Your presence constitutes consent to be filmed and photographed. Thank you.

Listowel Writer's Week: where readers celebrate, and writers find their flow

Listowel Writer's Week is Ireland's oldest literary festival, and one of its most prestigious. Famously hospitable, the beautiful North Kerry town of Listowel is internationally renowned as a wellspring of literary inspiration and heritage. The 2024 Listowel Writer's Week festival programme, exploring the theme Mother Nature, has been curated by the poet Martin Dyar.

See writersweek.ie for more details and the full 2024 programme.