Writing about nature and place

Putting the natural world into words 

Join award-winning writer Malachy Tallack  online for a month, exploring writing about nature and place.

Over the past decade, the genre of nature writing has developed and expanded rapidly. Many writers today are inspired to tell their own stories entwined with stories about landscape, nature and the environment. If there’s a key piece of wisdom to be gleaned from this, it’s that we – as individuals, as communities and as a species – can’t be fully understood without understanding the world around us, to which we are intricately and intimately connected. Likewise, it is near impossible now, and some might say irresponsible, to write about nature without considering the damage that human beings are doing to it.

In these four workshops you’ll learn about nature and place writing, how this genre is changing, what works well (and what doesn’t) and what publishers are looking…