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Wednesday(s), July 23, 30 & August 6, 13, 2025, 6:30-8:30pm CDT, via Zoom

Nonmember $240; Member $205; Student/Educ/Mil $168

Wonder is the combination of curiosity and awe that makes us feel alive and inspires writers to explore and reimagine the world around them. In this worry-filled world, we need our wonder and our writing more than ever. 

In this 4-week workshop, best-selling author and founder of the acclaimed Haven Writing Retreats in Montana, Laura Munson, will lead students through writing exercises to uncover wonder and inject it into their own writing. Using Laura’s newly released teaching memoir, The Wild Why: Stories and Teachings to Uncover Your Wonder, as a guide, we will explore teaching-spirited stories and writing prompts that center on illuminating our true self-expression and the wonder it sparks.

This class is open to writers of all genres and skill levels 18+.

LAURA MUNSON is the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of the novel Willa’s Grove, and the memoir This Is Not The Story You Think It Is. Founder of the acclaimed Haven Writing Retreats, she has been featured or published in Vanity Fair, Elle, Redbook, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times “Modern Love” column, The New York Times Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine, and many others. She has appeared on Good Morning America, The Early Show, WGN, NPR, London’s This Morning, Australia’s Sunrise, and other global media outlets. She lives in Whitefish, Montana.