Nature Writing

8 meetings

7 October to 2 December 2026 (no class for half-term 28 October)

This is an introduction to nature writing for students wanting to study this genre in a practical way and develop a portfolio of writing for publication or broadcast. During eight weeks of sessions, together with recommended reading and self-directed study, we will explore forms of nature writing such as journaling, fieldnotes, short-form and long-form essays, video/audio essays, ecopoetry, environmental journalism and writing as activism.

We will discuss the role of writing in the Anthropocene and our relations to Nature through natural history, protective conservation, restorative ecology, rewilding, ecosemiotics, personal experience and autoethnography, ecocriticism, ecophilosophy and post-humanism. At the end of the course, students will have amassed a collection of writing useful for taking the next steps in their nature writing practice.

£195