Workshop: Nature Writing For Times Like These with Polly Atkin

This workshop will explore how nature writing is evolving and shifting as our relationship with nature changes with the awareness of our collective and individual impact on the natural world. We will look at examples of nature writing that blur genre and form to reflect the interconnectivity of crises in biodiversity and climate with other man-made ecological damage. We will discuss different approaches in writing styles and technique as well as in research and field work, including the very local and domestic in our scope of topics alongside places we may never be able to visit, from weeds in pavement cracks to snails to slime moulds to spacescapes. Over the course of the three days we will aim to work towards a nature writing that addresses the key issues of our times, as well as attending carefully and conscientiously to the more-than-human world on a macro and micro scale.