Join me for an 8-week course in Travel and Nature Writing at Bristol University. This is a practical course aimed at developing your work, and will involve writing and editing as well as outside assignments.
You will learn about how to develop your experiences, whether at home or much further afield, into engaging and professional pieces of writing, with practical exercises to help you tune in to place (including field-sensing, horizon-lining and deep listening techniques) as well as focused writing assignments to help you shape and structure your work from initial drafts to edited, finished pieces. We will study the development of these genres, and how they have merged in recent years into the ‘travel/nature’ category. We will also examine the ethical issues facing travel and nature writers in an age of climate and ecological emergency. What is a writer’s role in these times? How do we write honestly about a changing world?
For more details and how to sign up, see here.