Writing with the Earth:
A Climate Writing and Resilience Workshop & Exhibit
Writing with the Earth is a nature-based writing project that explores how climate change touches our lives and the landscapes we love. This climate change art project is created and directed by Jen Johnson, environmental educator, nature and mindfulness-based counselor, writer, and photographer and is offered in collaboration with Halyburton Park Nature Center / Andy Fairbanks.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED AND LIMITED TO 20 PEOPLE: The presentation on climate change and resilience, along with a writing workshop, will be offered in person at Halyburton Park Nature Center on January 24, 2026 from 1:00 – 4:00pm.
An exhibit of the writing will be on display for one month at the Halyburton Park Nature Center in Wilmington, NC beginning on Monday, March 23, 2026.
Climate change art offers an opportunity to increase awareness about the impacts of climate change. It provides an avenue for us to express what we think and how we feel about the ways climate change is impacting us and the places we love.
ONLINE SUBMISSION FOR THE EXHIBIT
If you are unable to attend the in person event but would like to submit writing for the exhibit, please respond to the prompts and use the form below..
You might consider taking 5 minutes to sit quietly in nature as you contemplate the ways that climate change is impacting you and the Earth’s landscapes that you love.
“The most import thing you can do to fight climate change is talk about it.”
– Katherine Hayoe, Canadian climate scientist
Responses to each prompt should be brief and able to easily fit on a 5 x 7″ postcard.
You may respond to any or all of the prompts. Responses will be posted below on this page using first names only.
WRITING PROMPTS:
My grief is for…
If the (what you love –birds, rivers, trees, wind, land) could speak, it would say…
My greatest hope is…
Dear future generations…
My plan for being resilient is…
