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Sterling Colleges Online Environmental Writing and Food Writing Courses are available with Diverse Voices Scholarships
8-Week Online Course aims to help writers address the complex issues at intersection of food, equity, and environment.
March 2, 2022 – Sterling College is now accepting applications for a new online course on the art of food and environmental writing, with tuition-free fellowships funded by Penguin Random House and other donors. This is the first course in the Colleges Writing the Wrongs Program, which examines the ways storytelling can promote or hinder efforts toward sustainability and justice.
Joe Fassler, deputy editor of The Counter, will lead this immersive, workshop-driven course. It will focus on the impact of politics and power on personal experience. Students will learn how to create compelling narratives that connect food, equity, and environment through active discussion, guest speakers, and receive regular feedback in class. Here’s how to apply and more information: https://www.ce.sterlingcollege.edu/food-and-environmental-writing
Fassler’s own award-winning writing highlights how equity and environmental issues are interrelated in surprising and often overlooked ways. This makes him uniquely qualified to teach lifelong learners.
craft compelling stories about vast, interconnected systems;
Balance human-level narratives with complex science, policy issues and science;
Examine popular narratives that mislead or obscure;
Use sensitivity and nuance to handle sensitive topics.
This course starts on April 4th, and will run for 8 weeks. There will be live, interactive webinars every week. Sterling is able, through the generosity and support of multiple funders, such as the Sterling family and Penguin Random House to offer a Diverse Voices Fellowship that covers all course costs and materials. This fellowship is available to selected individuals who Identify as Black, Indigenous or a Person of Color (BIPOC), or those with deep, enduring personal connections to systematically marginalized-yet-resilient communities, or who are military veterans. The application review opens on March 7th.
Through encounters with essential reading in key topic areasand case studies of coverage that fell shortparticipants will deepen subject matter familiarity while learning to navigate each genre’s unique challenges. The workshop component will put these lessons into practice. Students will have the opportunity to shepherd their writing towards publication through instructor feedback and peer criticism. Students will also be able to discuss professional considerations as well as pragmatic concerns with a variety of guest speakers. These include Dr. Cynthia Greenlee (James Beard Award-winning writer, senior editor of The Counter); Matt Klise (editor for Penguin Books); and Jenny Dorsey (chef and writer who directs Studio ATAO a community think-tank that promotes systems-based change within media.
Fassler is keen to lead a mixed group of writers and practitioners. This course was designed to help both new writers and those with experience in the food system or environmental justice work. It will be challenging for food/environmental writers looking to improve or hone their craft in a variety of genres. This course will help students become more able to communicate the present in a way that is sensitive to the past, to create complex stories, and to anchor stories about complex system with dignified characters sketches.
Visit www.sterling.com for more information on the workshop and other continuing ed offerings. https://www.ce.sterlingcollege.edu/
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ABOUT STERLING HIGH SCHOOL:
Sterling College was founded in Craftsbury Common in Vermont in 1958. It promotes ecological thinking and action through affordable experiential education. It prepares knowledgeable, skilled, responsible leaders to confront the ecological crises that are caused by uncontrolled growth and excessive consumption that threaten the future of the planet. Sterling College is the home of the School of the New American Farmstead as well as the Wendell Berry Farming Program and EcoGather. It is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education and is one of nine colleges or universities that have been designated a Work College by the U.S. Department of Education. Sterling recognizes that the land it gathers is the traditional and unceded territory the Abenaki people inhabit on its Vermont campus. It also includes the Shawnee and Osage and the Eastern band members of the Cherokee on its Kentucky Campus. Visit: www.sterlingcollege.edu
Joe Fassler serves as deputy editor at The Counter, an award-winning newsroom that covers the politics, business, and culture behind American food. His writings on food and environment have appeared in publications such as The Guardian, TheAtlantic.com and Longreads. He has been a finalist twice for the James Beard Media Award. He is also a recipient of a Ted Scripps Fellowship at the University of Colorado, Boulder and an 11th Hour Food and Farming Fellowship at the University of California. Fasslers debut book, Light the Dark: Writers On Creativity, Inspiration and the Artistic Processing, was adapted from his By Heart series. It has been translated in six languages. Penguin Books will publish his novel, The Sky Was Ours.
CONTACT MEDIA:
Nakasi Fortune
Director of Continuing Education Services
Sterling College
802-586-7711 x147
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