Writing About Place: Workshop with Miles Hardingwood
Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 5:30pm
Join us for the final 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 Miles Justice Hardingwood, a poet and creative from Brooklyn, NY. He is a 2023 National Student Poet and a 2022 NYC Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador. His work has received a Scholastic National Gold Medal and an American Voices Medal, and he has performed at venues including The White House, The Schomburg Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, as well as at Vice President Kamala Harris’s Black History Month Celebration. He attended the Kenyon Young Writers Workshop and the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, and is currently a student at Brown University, where he is pursuing a concentration in Literary Arts.
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 28th
🕒 5:30pm
📍 Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association, 203B Arcadia Rd, Hope Valley, RI
🎟️ 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.
