Writers Rising Up To Defend Place, Natural Habitat, Wetlands is a 501 (c) (3) Minnesota non-profit corporation. We promote environmental stewardship through the literary arts at community events, contests, workshops, literary performances, interpretive installations and in publications. We promote writers who associate their work to cultural, spiritual and social connections to place, the land, natural habitat, including flora, fauna and wetlands.

We welcome program support from the community. Please consider being an Event or Program Sponsor.

Your tax free contributions can be sent to this address:
Writers Rising Up, Incorporated
16526 W. 78th St. #163
Eden Prairie, MN 55346

Writers Rising Up is a 501(c) (3) public charity. Contributions are deductible under 170 of the Code. Writers Rising Up is also qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers of gifts under section 2055, 2106 or 2522 of the Code.

Thank you to our many community and business sponsors for their generous contributions:

Eden Prairie Lions Club Eden Prairie Foundation Metropolitan Airports Commission Clark Family of Eden Prairie Anchor Bank Andreas Companies Dunn Bros Smith Douglas More House Allegra Print & Imaging, Eden Prairie Cedar Ridge Elementary Geraldine Beckmann Miles & Cheryl Cohen Bryndal Family Daniel Shaw & Judith McKloskey Sandy Wertz

Jeff and Nancy Lukens Ron and Kathie Case Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Lions Tap McCray Allstate Insurance Halla Nursery Marshall's Farm Market Mark and Jan Mosman Settler's Ridge Neighbors Rebecca Ference Linda Hayen Neuman Family Lorayne & Donald Streeter Kristen Heeringa

Current Programs 2008:

In the Company of Places: Writing about World, Community and Environment
Cosponsored by the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska Minnesota.

• Paul Gruchow Essay Contest and Reception
• Digging to the Roots Workshop series and submissions culminating in a Chapbook published by Red Dragonfly Press

Elizabeth Fries Ellet Interpretive Trail at the Richard T. Anderson Conservation Area, Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

• Trail Programs from May to October 2008