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Overview of NatureCulture® LLC, Writing the Land®, and Retreats: Our interwoven stories
NatureCulture® LLC is the parent company that directs Writing the Land® project, and manages and produces other events, and publishes books that help people be in better relationship to the rest of Nature, of which we are a part. Lis McLoughlin, PhD is the founder and only member of NatureCulture® LLC which was officially incorporated in Massachusetts 2021 as an umbrella for her underpaid and volunteer activities which include writing, producing events, researching, and editing. NatureCulture Inc. is the Quebec branch of NatureCulture® LLC, founded in 2025.
The Authors & Artists Festival (2020-2022) directed by an ad-hoc grassroots board. Lis McLoughlin is a founding member of the board and manages and produces the festival and associated events. Other board members include Dickinson Memorial Library programming librarian Matt Atwood, and Northfield Historical Commission member Mary King. The festival began in 2020, and 2022 was its third year. It reaches over 800 audience members globally both live-online and through recordings of the presentations. In 2022 all headline speakers were Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and the theme of Writing the Land® included both poets from the Writing the Land® project, and headline speakers on the intersection of social and environmental justice.
The Writing the Land® project was conceived of, founded by, and is directed by Lis McLoughlin. Advisors to the project include poet David Crews who helped develop the first year’s network of land trusts, and who implemented the website, editing and posting poems as they were produced. Current senior project advisors include poet Mary Brancaccio, with Technical Senior Advisor Elizabeth Burton-Crow. Writing the Land® pairs poets with protected lands and produces anthologies sold by the land protection agencies (and the poets if they wish) to support their mission. The project began in 2020 with 1 New-England-based anthology containing 11 land trusts and 40 poets. In 2022 we had 4 anthologies with over 40 land trusts, and as of 2026 we have published 16 (soon to be 17) Writing the Land® anthologies and 15 other books. We work with over 450 poets internationally, and 150 land trusts nationwide. Recruitment of poets and land protection organizations is ongoing on a rolling basis, with most new volumes being focused on larger organizations wishing to create their own books, now available in color.
Other new projects include: Writing the Land® workshops offered by Writing the Land® poets to everyone who’d like to connect to the land through their writing; Echoes, a project that implants sound files in geolocations such as nature trials, subscription-based support for independent author-publishers, and our new Montreal-based imprint “Ville” focuses on ecotourism. Our events have moved from the online Authors and Artists festival to in-person retreats in Ireland, the Cayman Islands, and Canada. Through our retreats we work with local poets and land conservation organizations to give back to the places we visit.
Our 2 websites: https://www.nature-culture.net/ and https://www.writingtheland.org/