Starting this autumn, I’ll be teaching an eight-week course in Travel and Nature Writing at the University of Bristol.
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?
You can find out more and book your place here