Lookout: Writing + Art About Wildfire

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Lookout: Writing + Art About Wildfire | 2022

In 2022, Spring Creek Project hosted the lecture series Lookout: Envisioning Futures with Wildfire. In conjunction with the series, we partnered with Terrain.org on “Lookout: Writing + Art About Wildfire,” a call for creative submissions about wildfire.

Out of more than a hundred submissions, a jury selected the following 13 pieces of writing and art for publication. This collection of poetry, nonfiction, fiction and art serves as an ongoing invitation to think about how we are all shaping this era of megafires — and how it is shaping us.

  • “Tips for Wannabe Wildland Firefighters,” nonfiction by Emily Shepherd
  • Six poems by Amy Miller
  • “Heirlooms,” fiction by Elizabeth Spragins
  • “Contours of a Charred Tree | Works on Torn Paper,” artwork by Suze Woolf
  • “Fire Loving Fungi,” nonfiction by Anne Haven McDonnell
  • “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Wildfire,” a poem by Craig Santos Perez
  • “Five Ways to Learn Fear,” fiction by Bradley David
  • “Cinerem Cineri,” nonfiction by Claire Thompson
  • “Fire Relief Center, Talent, Oregon, October 2020,” nonfiction by Mary Kwart
  • “McCaffery Bridge,” fiction by Tracy Daugherty
  • “Pyrometric: Telling Stories with Fire,” artwork by Amiko Matsuo and Brad Monsma
  • “Property Line,” nonfiction by Benjamin Rutherford
  • Four poems by Rachel Richardson
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art by suze woolf
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Art by Suze Woolf