Finding Your Self in the Landscape

Wendy Pratt

Finding Your Self in the LandscapeA Narrative Non-fiction Workshop <ul><li>How is the physical human body reflected in the landscape? </li><li>How does the physical body persist in the landscape? </li><li>How do we open our senses to the environment around us? </li><li>How do we identify and explore the barriers faced by the physical body in the environment?</li><li>How do we weave this into narrative non-fiction? How do we write the story of our physical selves in the environment?</li></ul> Are you a writer wishing to locate themselves physically within the landscape, but feeling disconnected? Do you want some jumping off points to further your own narrative non fiction? In this online, half day zoom workshop we’ll be looking at four main areas: <ul><li>The body as a mirror to the landscape.</li><li>The body as a wild animal living in the landscape.</li><li>The sensory self as the lens through which you experience the landscape.</li><li>How to be a physical presence in your own environment.</li></ul> This course is designed for those who are actively writing narrative non fiction or memoir, or those who wish to explore through journalling and free writing, their own connections to the landscape they live in. Women in nature writing, women in the physical landscape, are so often expected to make themselves small, to know their place within the environments they live in. In this workshop we’ll be finding the points of constraint and allowing ourselves to expand out of these places. We’ll be finding the connection points that place us in the landscape, we’ll be taking up space and staking a claim to the places that mean something to us. We’ll be looking at examples of women writers writing about their own internal and external landscapes and we’ll be working on finding ways to write about our own through creative exercises and prompts.The workshop combines prompts, discussion, exercises and resources to help you find places of connection. You will not be expected to share anything, but I will provide space to share if you would like to.This workshop is open to all people who identify as women or non binary. About Wendy PrattWendy Pratt is an author, poet and editor. Her Harper Collins nature-landscape memoir, The Ghost Lake was longlisted for the Nan Shepherd prize and called 'remarkable' by the Guardian. Her poetry collection When I Think of My Body as a Horse won The Poetry Business International Book and Pamphlet competition in 2021. She is currently a fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library where she is researching the autonomy of women through rural domestic activities as part of her current writing project, a historical fiction novel.