Participants are required to bring writing materials (including computer), flashlights, clipboard and paper, and good walking shoes. Magnifying glasses, bird and plant books, and cameras are suggested.

Shelley A. Leedahl has been writing poetry, essays, stories, and novels almost since she learned to walk. Much of her work is walking and nature-inspired, and her poetry is often written on location (at international artist retreat centres, or in her own garden and rooms). Her eight books include The House of the Easily Amused, Orchestra of the Lost Steps, Talking Down the Northern Lights, A Few Words For January, and The Bone Talker. She recently began producing multi-media works which incorporate poetry, song, still photography and video. A long-time Saskatchewan resident and active member of that province’s writing community, Leedahl relocated to Edmonton in 2010, where she continues to write and explore the natural world. Forthcoming titles are Wretched Beast (poetry, BuschekBooks) and The Moon Watched It All (children’s illustrated, Red Deer Press.)
  • The phrase “Stranger in a Fresh Green World” is from Raymond Souster’s “Get the Poem