Spring Creek Residency

Creative writers whose work in any genre reflects a keen awareness of the natural world and an appreciation for both scientific and literary ways of knowing are invited to apply for a weeklong writing residency at Mount St. Helens. The Mount St. Helens Field Residencies will take place July 18-24, 2010, with a base camp near Randle, WA, and will be held in conjunction with the 2010 Mount St. Helens Science Pulse, a gathering of ecologists and research scientists who are engaged in field work on Mount St. Helens. Residency writers will be able to join ecologists on field trips to various locations on Mount St. Helens, interact informally with scientists, and to focus on writing projects that embody creative responses to the volcano and its varied landscapes and the role of volcanic landscapes in the imagination and culture of the Northwest.

The Mount St. Helens Field Residencies are sponsored by the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature and the Written Word at Oregon State University; the US Forest Service; and the Andrews Forest Long-Term Ecological Research group.

For the Mount St. Helens Field Residencies, writers will be provided:

· campsites at a private campground near Mount St. Helens (Bring your own camping gear. See the Spring Creek website for more information on the campground.)

· all meals provided by a camp caterer

· field trips to Mount St. Helens research sites and trailheads

· opportunities to interact with research scientists

· opportunities to write and have their writings included in /The Volcano Log/

· an honorarium of $1,000

· a copy of /In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens/

Deadline for applications is May 1, 2010.

See the attached Call for Applications for more details, or visit the Spring Creek website http://springcreek.oregonstate.edu/

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Charles Goodrich
Program Director, The Spring Creek Project
Department of Philosophy
101 Hovland Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon 97331
541-737-6198

http://springcreek.oregonstate.edu/

“The challenge of the Spring Creek Project is to bring together the practical wisdom of the environmental sciences, the clarity of philosophical analysis, and the creative, expressive power of the written word to find new ways to understand and re-imagine our relation to the natural world.”