Nature Writing Workshop with Ethan Tapper | 2026 Green Mountain Book Festival: Climate Critters & Canopies

On Saturday, September 19th from 10:00 to 11:00 AM, forester, digital creator, bestselling author, and 2026 Green Mountain Book Festival Keynote Speaker Ethan Tapper will be hosting a Nature Writing Workshop! This writing workshop will kick off the 2026 Green Mountain Book Festival: Climate Critters and Canopies hosted at Phoenix Books Burlington. This workshop has a limited capacity of TEN PEOPLE and is FREE! The Green Mountain Book Fair will be accepting cash donations during entry to the event. RSVP today to secure a spot to write with Ethan Tapper, to meet fellow nature writers, and to receive feedback on your work!  

Ethan Tapper is a forester, digital creator, and the bestselling author of How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World. For more than a decade, Ethan has been recognized as a thought-leader and a disruptor in the worlds of forestry, conservation, and ecosystem stewardship, winning multiple regional and national awards for his work. His message of relationship, responsibility and hope reaches millions of people each year through his writing, social media channels with hundreds of thousands of followers, and the walks, talks and keynotes that he delivers across North America each year.

Ethan works, writes, hunts, birds and runs a small consulting forestry business from his home at Bear Island – his 175-acre working forest, homestead, orchard and sugarbush in Vermont – and plays in his punk band, The Bubs.

DATE: Saturday, September 19, 2026 from 10:00 AM until 11:00 AM 

LOCATION: Phoenix Books Burlington, 89 Church Street, Burlington, VT 

TICKETS: Tickets for this writing workshop with Ethan Tapper are FREE! The Green Mountain Book Festival will be accepting cash donations during entry for the writing workshop. You can RSVP through the Seven Days Tickets website. This event has a limited capacity of TEN PEOPLE. 

BOOKS: Copies of Ethan Tapper's How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World will be available for purchase at Phoenix Books. You can also pre-order Ethan Tapper's newest release, The Forest Year, out on October 6, 2026!