Country Diary Workshop: Writing about Nearby Nature
Do you enjoy watching the birds in your garden or the local park? Are you interested in the wild flowers and trees that you pass on your way into town or on country walks? Would you like to learn more about the natural history of the landscape around you? Perhaps you’d like to share your ideas and enthusiasm with others, broaden your knowledge of wildlife and place, and explore your own creative voice.
This workshop will focus on writing about nearby nature. We will look at ways to connect with wildlife and the local landscape, how and where to find inspiration, and how we might structure our work. The session will include short writing exercises, discussion of extracts and the opportunity to share our writing (which will always be optional). We’ll come away with prompts, several short pieces and a range of ideas about how our drafts might be developed into longer written work.
The workshop is suitable for everyone, whether you would like inspiration on where to start or advice about how to develop your writing. Nic also runs follow up courses and mentors writers.
Workshop Tutor
Nic is an author, editor and Guardian country diarist. She works for BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine, specialising in wildlife, wild plants and environmental issues. Her nature memoir, Land Beneath the Waves, on nature, place and chronic illness, came out in June.
Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including Under the Changing Skies: The Best of The Guardian Country Diaries 2018-2024, Going to Ground: An Anthology of Nature and Place, Moving Mountains and Women on Nature. Nic volunteers for her local Wildlife Trust and loves writing about the nearby wild.
Ticket price includes a light lunch and refreshments on arrival.
