Nature has always had the power to enchant and inspire writers, and with the climate crisis us pushing us all to become more ecologically-aware, finding new ways to deepen - and write meaningfully about - our relationship with the environment has never been more important. Join acclaimed, Wainwright Prize-winning author and journalist Amy Liptrot to learn how to translate your own passion for the natural world into insightful, evocative writing.
This stimulating evening course won’t just make your writing better, it’ll help you to observe and appreciate nature in new ways. You’ll explore the benefits of immersing yourself in the outdoor spaces that surround us, and learn how the best modern nature writers distil elements of creative nonfiction and memoir into personal, fascinating stories about the environment and our place within it.
You’ll leave the course with a toolkit of practical exercises to help sharpen your eye and hone your personal style, as well as writing techniques to capture your experiences of the natural world, which will energise your writing long after the course finishes.
This event is part of the Nature Unwrapped series, in partnership with King’s Place.
This course is for you if...
You’re an aspiring nature author or journalist
You’re a professional writer in another discipline who wants to move into nature or environmental writing
You work for an environmental NGO and want to better communicate nature and environmental issues
You’re an amateur naturalist who wants to improve your writing, or simply get more pleasure out of being outdoors
Course content
Understanding the world of nature writing and its historical and environmental contexts
Unpack how the best of contemporary nature writing uses memoir, metaphor and narrative in new ways
How to sharpen your field observations to become a better interpreter of nature
Practical writing techniques for translating the natural world in words
Pitching and publishing: practical tips for professionals, and aspiring professionals, on the publishing landscape for nature writing
Q&A and discussion with Amy Liptrot
Tutor profile
Amy Liptrot is a British journalist and author. She grew up on a sheep farm in the Orkney Islands. She won the PEN Ackerley Prize 2017 and the Wainwright Prize 2016 for her memoir The Outrun. She currently lives in Yorkshire and is writing her next book. Read her Guardian articles here.
Details
Date: Monday 18 May 2020
Times: Evening course, 6.30pm-9.30pm
Location: The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU
Price: £49 plus £2.83 booking fee
Event capacity: 100
Complimentary refreshments included.
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