Writing About Place: Workshop with Wanda Hopkins
Thursday, May 14, 2026 at 5:30pm
Join us for the second workshop of the Writing About Place series—a four-week writing workshop exploring how landscape, memory, and ecology shape story and voice.
This session features guest writer Wanda Hopkins, a citizen of the Narragansett Indian Tribal Nation, culture bearers, and writer. She has served in Tribal government, ministered at the Narragansett Indian Church for over twenty-five years, and serves as a Native American Community Advisor to the University of Rhode Island and the Tomaquag Museum. She has shared her knowledge and perspective with churches, schools, and civic organizations throughout Rhode Island, across the United States, and in Canada. Ms. Hopkins holds a Master of Arts in English from the University of Rhode Island. Her scholarly interests focus on regional Indigenous literature and its influence on national and local Indigenous movements, policies, and legislative agendas. Her future research includes documenting the lives of her Narragansett relatives interred at the historic Babcock Cemetery in Hopkinton, Rhode Island.
This workshop will include writer reflections, discussion, and writing exploration centered on place, lived experience, and relationship to place. Participants will be invited to engage through listening, reflection, and optional writing exercises in a supportive setting. By deepening how we notice, describe, and connect with the landscapes around us, writing can also strengthen our understanding of why conservation and stewardship matter to our communities.
Writers of all experience levels are welcome. Participants are asked to preregister Here.
📅 Thursday, May 14th
🕒 5:30pm
📍 Cross Mills Library
🎟️ Free and open to all—please preregister Here.
Writing About Place is a collaborative community series featuring four writing workshops and two guided hikes focused on observing, experiencing, and writing about the landscapes around us. This series is presented in partnership by the Charlestown Land Trust, Hopkinton Land Trust, Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association, Cross Mills Library, and Earthinform Studio.
