Preserve hosts Page to Page: A Writing and Hiking Experience

From staff reports

Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear is offering the return of the program, “Port Oneida Path to Page” on Friday, Oct. 17, from 12-4 pm, for writers at any level, but especially for those interested in creating history-inspired pieces.

Participants will explore their creative muse hiking this fall through select farms, woods and fields of the lovely Port Oneida historic region with local poet and playwright Anne-Marie Oomen. With the beautiful surroundings and provided oral history of the farms as your inspiration, along with guidance and instruction from Oomen, you will have the opportunity to write and share some creative prose. The cost is $100 per person and is limited to 15 people.

Anne-Marie Oomen, who received the Michigan Author Award for 2024, is a poet, playwright, essayist and memoirist published throughout the country. She has earned five Michigan Notable Book Awards and the AWP Sue Silverman Award for Creative Nonfiction for her memoir. She has taught Poetry Workshops and Life Writing at the Solstice MFA at Lasell University and Interlochen College of Creative Arts. Her focus in recent years has been celebrating local land and water projects through writing. Please click here to register.