Just Waters
From June 16 to 18, 2025, a group of scholars,students and artists came together for a writing workshop with Kerri Arsenault and Cory Beizer of The Environmental Storytelling Studio (TESS). Just Waters hosted this workshop to support the creation of an Open Educational Resource that brings together perspectives on water and justice from a diverse set of disciplines. Throughout the workshop, we explored the idea of bringing our whole selves to the writing— the act of being un-disciplined, one could say.
A collection of lightly edited writing exercises, this chapbook acts as a series of snapshots— of places, memories, stories and values that the writers shared with each other throughout the workshop.
About the cover
This fish scale floral has been created digitally versus by hand with physical lake whitefish scales. Using macro photography of an individual flat scale and a cone, the flower is created. This practice moves the creation of fish scale art from the physical to the digital form.
Fish scale art on the cover and inside cover by Erin Konsmo (Red River Métis). https://www.erinkonsmo.com/
