About Writers Rising UpWriters Rising Up is a 501(c) (3) public charity. Contributions are tax deductible. We encourage a deeper understanding and participation in environmental stewardship. Through the literary arts at community events, contests, workshops, literary performances, interpretive installations and publications, our focus is on nature education and writing. We promote writers who associate their work to cultural, spiritual and social connections to place, the land, natural habitat, including flora, fauna and wetlands.
Writers Rising Up™ has been registered with the US Patent and Trademark Office for: educational services, namely poetry and literary contests, competitions and events for writers to submit and perform literary interpretations related to place, natural habitat, and wetlands.
Writers Rising Up Board of Directors
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Elizabeth Fries Ellet Interpretive Trail
The City of Eden Prairie, Minnesota owes its name to Elizabeth Fries Ellet, the East Coast writer who visited the area in 1852. In her travelogue book, Summer Rambles in the West, Ellet described the Minnesota River Valley which adjoins the current day City of Eden Prairie, as the garden spot of the territory. The celebrated valley of the Minnesota River--called St. Pierre by the French, and until recently, St. Peter's—extends in a general direction from west to east, and, with the country along its tributaries, forms the garden spot of the territory. Read More... |
Winning Writers...
2013 Paul Gruchow Essay Contest Winner Cindy Crosby
Cindy Crosby is the author of seven books, and contributor to eight others. Her books have been reviewed by Publishers Weekly, The Chicago Sun Times, Orion, Chicago Wilderness, Chicagoland Gardening, and various other publications. Her second book, By Willoway Brook, (with a foreword by Paul Gruchow) was named as of Chicago Wilderness magazine’s “great reads” in 2006. Cindy has written more than five hundred articles, reviews, and poems for many periodicals and websites, and she reviewed books for Publishers Weekly for almost a decade. Read more...
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Upcoming Events and Contests
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Ramblings from the Trail...
Wilderness in the City: Spring Writing Tour: Ramblings from the Trail What the season of spring and the land gives you and what you should give back? May 26th with Mark Herwig Editor of Pheasants Forever 10 to 12 Noon- Bring a notebook, pen and camera… Read more... |
Digging to the Roots Calendar
Digging to the Roots, 2013 Edition Download this beautiful calendar, compliments of Writers Rising Up Click Here |
