Mary Ricketson will host the January writing workshop. She will offer an opportunity to deepen your experience with nature through a variety of writing techniques including observation, imagery, and reflection of self, through poetry and prose. This workshop is open to all skill levels and writing genres.
Mary Ricketson, is from Murphy, North Carolina. She has been writing poetry for over 25 years. Her poems have been published in Wild Goose Poetry Review, Future Cycle Press, Journal of Kentucky Studies, Lights in the Mountains, Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, Red Fox Run, It’s All Relative, Old Mountain Press, Whispers, and Disorgananza (private collection 2000) her chapbook, I Hear the River Call my Name (Finishing Line Press 2007), and three full length poetry collections, Hanging Dog Creek (Future Cycle Press 2014), and Shade and Shelter (Kelsay Books 2018), Mississippi:The Story of Luke and Marian (Kelsay Books 2019), Keeping in Place (Finishing Line Press 2021), and Lira, Poems of a Woodland Woman (Redhawk Publications 2021). She won first place in the 2011 Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest 75th anniversary national poetry contest.
Inspired by nature and her role as a mental health counselor, her poems reflect the healing powers of nature, a path she follows from Appalachian tradition, with the surrounding mountains as midwife for her words.
She writes a monthly column, Woman to Woman, for Murphy’s weekly newspaper, The Cherokee Scout. She is a Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor, in private practice in Murphy, NC, and an organic blueberry farmer.
Monthly Writing Workshops
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