Writing on the Farm: Foodways and Farm Culture in a Changing World: August 10-14, 2022 [*waiting list]
NOTE: this program is currently full and we are taking applicants for the waiting list. We still encourage you to apply! Life is unpredictable and plans change, so it is not uncommon for a spots to open up a few months prior to the program.

Food is an essential part of the shared human experience. Yet these connections fray when we do not acknowledge a food’s cultural ties or explore the bigger story about where our food comes from. How can we learn to look beyond the merely delicious into something more complex, something that requires harder questions? In this multi-genre workshop, writers will deepen their explorations of food through research, firsthand experience, reporting, and personal narrative. We’ll read and discuss nonfiction, memoir, manifesto, fiction, poetry, folklore, and journalism. We’ll generate new writing. And we’ll learn how to become cultural documentarians of food.

This is a workshop for established and new food writers. In addition to ample quiet time for writing, participants will have the opportunity to engage in a hands-on farm experience. We will milk goats, make cheese, care for farm animals, visit local farms, work in the gardens, harvest the bounty, and prepare food together. At the end of the workshop, we’ll host a celebratory reading, and students will have the opportunity to submit what they wrote for publication in the Quillisascut Anthology of Food and Culture. [limited to 12 participants]
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Tuition for this workshop is $995, and includes food and lodging (transportation to the farm is not included). Thanks to support from Humanities Washington and the National Endowment for the Humanities, participants can receive a scholarship to attend. Scholarships will be awarded on a sliding scale. Please pay what you can. Please note that the only residents of the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, and Idaho) are eligible for scholarships due to the conditions of our grant.
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LODGING & COVID-19 SAFETY PRECAUTIONS: *
In an effort to keep participants, staff, and our community safe, we will be following the updated recommendations from the Washington State Department of Health during all workshops. While Covid-19 seems to be a moving target, we will monitor the current situation during Summer 2022 and make safety protocol decisions at that time. We require that all participants are fully vaccinated (as defined by the WA DOH). In order to limit the number of participants sharing bedrooms*, we will need at least three participants who are willing to camp. We have built an outdoor bathroom facility for campers. If needed, the group will be divided into pods of three, and these groups will cook together as a team throughout the session. Meals will be shared outdoors in our screened-in dining area. Please answer the questions below to the best of your ability.
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What is your writing experience? Why do you write about food? *
What are your objectives/intentions for wanting to be a part of this workshop? *
How does your unique background and food culture show up in your writing practice?
What skills would you like to learn at Quillisascut Farm School? Writing, farming, cooking, or all three? Please provide details. *
What skills, techniques, and experiences would you like to contribute to this workshop?
If you have a link to published work, please share it below. Alternately, you can copy and paste work that you are proud of into the space below (500 word limit). If it has been published, please let us know when and where. *
Meals are served family style and prepared from our own farm raised products (goat products: milk, cheese and meat, poultry, eggs, and garden produce). We are not equipped to handle a wide range of dietary preferences. Please note any dietary restrictions below: *
PHOTO RELEASE:  We love to use photographs and videos taken during farm school sessions to promote Quillisascut Farm via social media, farm newsletters, flyers/promotions, on our website, and in magazine/newspaper submissions. Please review the waiver below. *
I grant permission to Quillisascut Farm & the Quillisascut Education Fund, its agents, and its employees the irrevocable and unrestricted right to produce photographs and video taken of me while at Quillisascut Farm for any lawful purpose including publication, promotion, illustration, advertising, trade, or historical archive in any manner or in any medium by Quillisascut Farm. I hereby release Quillisascut Farm and its legal representatives from liability for any violation or claims relating to said images or video.
COMMITMENT: It is important to know that this is a small group and the success of the program is based on a commitment to be here the entire time and be an active participant. Please notify Quillisascut Farm at least three weeks prior to the session if you are unable to attend so we can offer your spot on the waiting list. *
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