Writers from Emily Dickinson to Edith Wharton and Eudora Welty have found their gardens to be wellsprings of sensory experience that stimulated their writing. In this one-hour workshop, be inspired by images of gardens and write spontaneously in response to prompts—verbal or visual cues provided by the workshop leader.

Jane Roy Brown is an award-winning writer and editor who lives in western Massachusetts. Jane works as writer-editor at Native Plant Trust, a native plant conservation organization based in Framingham, Massachusetts. She also runs an independent writing workshop series, The Heart of Story: Writing Stories of Our Lives (theheartofstory.com). With Susan Haltom, Jane is co-author of One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place (University Press of Mississippi, September 2011). Her writing has also appeared in numerous periodicals including Landscape Architecture, Harvard Magazine, and Preservation, and she was a regular contributor to The Boston Globe travel section for 10 years.

Thank you to our Summer Reading sponsors: The Greater Worcester Community Foundation, UniBank, Mattina R. Proctor Foundation, Country Bank, Walmart, Cornerstone Bank, District Attorney Joseph D. Early, Jr.’s Office, Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation, Bob’s Discount Furniture, bankHometown, Friends of the Worcester Public Library, and the Worcester Public Library Foundation.