Amy Lou's green news and articles: March 2023

Monday, March 6, 2023

Find your story and write a memoir

Nature writing is often also first-person writing. Is your memoir also nature writing? Maybe/maybe not. Find your story with a free guided workbook. FirstPersonWriting.com @amyloujenkins

Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parentingis a narrative of mother-and-son nature outings across the state of Wisconsin. In a style that blends the voices of Janisse Ray and Annie Dillard, a mother and son explore parallels in the world of people and nature. The interconnected chapters stand on their own and build upon each other. These explorations of natural history, flora and fauna, and parenting themes demonstrate that the mythic thread that winds through everything can still be found, even in a world of wounds.

"If you combined the lyricism of Annie Dillard, the vision of Aldo Leopold, and the gentle but tough-minded optimism of Frank McCourt, you might come close to Amy Lou Jenkins,...I, for one, would follow her anywhere."—Tom Bissell author of The Father of All Things