We Grow Readers & Writers
The goal at Writers Rising Up to Defend Place, Natural Habitat, Wetlands is to give writers who submit to our writing opportunities a chance to cultivate their craft by competing in different genres. Writers who are selected for non-cash prizes receive a place where their writing will be acknowledged, and honored. For those who submit to submissions with prize money only writers whose work is selected by the judges will be compensated.
About Writers Rising Up
Writers Rising Up is a 501(c) (3) public charity. Contributions are tax deductible. 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. Through our submission opportunities we only promote writers who submit to our writing opportunities, and only writers who associate their work to cultural, spiritual and social connections to place, the land, natural habitat, including flora, fauna and wetlands.
Writers Rising Up™ has been registered with the US Patent and Trademark Office for: educational services, namely poetry and literary contests, competitions and events for writers to submit and perform literary interpretations related to place, natural habitat, and wetlands.
So, Let’s Get Growing…
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Writers Rising Up is a 501(c) (3) public charity. Contributions are tax deductible.
Board of Directors
Marge Barrett
Marge Barrett has published a chapbook of poetry, “My Memoir Dress,” prose and poetry in Best of the Web 2009, the Minnesota Historical Society’s “The State We’re In,” and numerous journals. She has won creative writing awards from St. Catherine University and the MFA Program at the University of Minnesota and grants to study in Prague and St. Petersburg. A former editor of River Images for the St. Croix ArtBarn and faculty advisor of Ivory Tower for the University of Minnesota, she currently teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and various writing workshops. She also runs short-short story contests for MINNPOST.com. Marge will be leading a Wilderness Writing Workshop at the Elizabeth Fries Ellet Interpretive Trail fall of 2013.
Vicki Pellar Price
Victoria Pellar Price is the director of Writers Rising Up to Defend Place, Natural Habitat, Wetlands (since 2001). The 501 (c) (3) literary nonprofit is based in Eden Prairie. The Elizabeth Fries Ellet Interpretive Trail was a four year project the non-profit undertook to create a permanent guide to Eden Prairie’s history and natural biomes in a 125 acre stretch of untouched prairie, big woods, sedge meadow, oak savanna and bottomland forest.The non-profit has partnered with the Arboretum on writing workshops and readings related to place and natural habitat with Minnesota writers Carol Bly, Bill Holm, Paul Gruchow, Deborah Keenan, Joyce Sutphen and Michael Dennis Browne. Pellar Price has a BFA from California Institute of the Arts (Chouinard Art Institute), and MLA & MFA from Hamline. She was a member of the Eden Prairie Human Rights and Diversity Commission 1997-1999, the Eden Prairie Historical Society 2007- 2015, the Eden Prairie Community Education Partnership Breakfast 2004-2009 and the Eden Prairie Flying Cloud Airport Advisory Commission March 2015-16.