Announcing: ‘Root and Branch Nature Writing'

Prompts and Techniques for Nature Writing.

Root and Branch Nature Writing is an eight-part series of writing prompts and exercises. Whether you're new to nature writing or looking to refine your craft, this series provides expert guidance drawn from twenty years of experience in creative writing education.

🌿 What You'll Gain:

• Structured exercises to develop attentiveness and descriptive precision.

• Techniques for integrating memory, reflection, and personal narrative.

• Insights into place writing and the role of knowledge in nature-based storytelling.

Through a carefully designed series of practical exercises you will learn to sharpen your observational skills and get noticing the nature around you. You’ll gain experience in translating your fieldnotes into more developed pieces. You’ll learn to weave personal memory and insight into your descriptions, explore how the character of a place informs your writing, and discover effective methods—like fieldwork and research—for gathering the necessary knowledge.

The provisional schedule is as follows:

1. Introduction (free preview)

2. Observation and Attentiveness 2

3. Observation and Attentiveness 3

4. Writing Your Patch/Not Writing Your Patch

5. The Importance of Knowledge

6. Memory and Reflective Writing

7. Speculation - Writing the Non-Human

8. Speculation - the Past and the Future

The first two posts will be published in June and the rest between July and September.

The first post is open to all subscribers to ‘This Party’s Over’. Future posts from the full series can be unlocked with a paid subscription: £4/month or £44/year.

Subscribe now and let your words take root.