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What difference does it make to set your writing somewhere wild?
How is a walk a good way to give your story a structure and shape?
In this workshop, we’ll explore how writing about walks in nature is a brilliantly effective way of creating memorable fiction and creative non-fiction. Through a series of examples, gentle writing exercises, discussion and prompts, we’ll explore ways of creating story shapes and richly descriptive settings by embracing the natural world’s vividness, constant change and rich detail.
This workshop is suitable for new writers as well as those with more experience.
Workshop Leader:
Emma Timpany is a writer of fiction about loss, belonging, nature and place. Much of her writing is inspired by the wild places of Aotearoa New Zealand and Cornwall. Her publications include a novella, Travelling in the Dark, and two short story collections, The Lost of Syros and Three Roads. She is editor and co-editor respectively of Cornish Short Stories and Botanical Short Stories. Recently, she co-edited (in)visibilities, an anthology of poetry, prose and creative non-fiction exploring older women’s experiences.
What difference does it make to set your writing somewhere wild?
How is a walk a good way to give your story a structure and shape?
In this workshop, we’ll explore how writing about walks in nature is a brilliantly effective way of creating memorable fiction and creative non-fiction. Through a series of examples, gentle writing exercises, discussion and prompts, we’ll explore ways of creating story shapes and richly descriptive settings by embracing the natural world’s vividness, constant change and rich detail.
This workshop is suitable for new writers as well as those with more experience.
Workshop Leader:
Emma Timpany is a writer of fiction about loss, belonging, nature and place. Much of her writing is inspired by the wild places of Aotearoa New Zealand and Cornwall. Her publications include a novella, Travelling in the Dark, and two short story collections, The Lost of Syros and Three Roads. She is editor and co-editor respectively of Cornish Short Stories and Botanical Short Stories. Recently, she co-edited (in)visibilities, an anthology of poetry, prose and creative non-fiction exploring older women’s experiences.