Writers Rising Up To Defend Place, Natural Habitat, Wetlands is a 501 (c) (3) Minnesota non-profit corporation. 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.

We welcome program support from the community. Your tax free contributions can be sent to this address:
Writers Rising Up, Incorporated
16526 W. 78th St. #163
Eden Prairie, MN 55346

Writers Rising Up is a 501(c) (3) public charity. Contributions are deductible under 170 of the Code. Writers Rising Up is also qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers of gifts under section 2055, 2106 or 2522 of the Code.

Current Programs 2008:

In the Company of Places: Writing about World, Community and Environment
Cosponsored by the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska Minnesota.

• Paul Gruchow Essay Contest and Reception
• Digging to the Roots Workshop series and submissions culminating in a Chapbook published by Red Dragonfly Press

Elizabeth Fries Ellet Interpretive Trail at the Richard T. Anderson Conservation Area, Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

• Trail Programs from May to October 2008