The Course: This nonfiction workshop will focus on the art of scientific storytelling in facing the challenges of the Anthropocene. Our aim is to learn together how to tell vivid science-smart Continue reading →

The Course: What the Land Inspires: Literary critic Frank Stewart described writers whose work focuses on nature as “bringing together the scientific and the poetic,” to render something bigger than the Continue reading →

The Course: This nonfiction course will combine generative exercises, close readings of exemplary essays, and workshopping of texts, new and old, that students bring to the table. We will discuss how Continue reading →

The course: Writing Place: Experimental Forms and Techniques Experimentation is where it’s at these days—especially in the world of nature writing. If you take a look at today’s best place-based literary Continue reading →

The course: In this creative nonfiction workshop you will be invited to consider your own connections with nature and joy, knowing fully that both of these concepts engage their shadows in Continue reading →

The course: Stranger Natures  How do we see nature? When does the environment come to life—or into something stranger—in films and in nonfiction? In this workshop, we will learn how to Continue reading →

The course: The Self in Nature In this class, we'll spend time examining different approaches to nature writing. We'll look at how we see nature in ourselves and how we can Continue reading →

The course: What If This Ends Well? Rewriting Stories of Dystopia and Apocalypse in Time to Change the Narrative Cormac McCarthy's Road. Atwood's Handmaid's Tale. Mad Max, The Walking Dead. Books, film, and Continue reading →

The Course: Rewilding Prose The natural world has often been reduced in writing workshops and craft books to “setting”—a static stage backdrop behind which the human drama, or plot, or “real story” unfolds. Continue reading →

The course: The Breakthrough The trick here will be to astonish ourselves. To outfox and outwrite ourselves. This nonfiction workshop seeks to provide us with ways to leap into ideas we Continue reading →

The Course: What the Land Inspires Literary critic Frank Stewart described writers whose work focuses on nature as “bringing together the scientific and the poetic,” to render something bigger than the Continue reading →

The Course: This nonfiction workshop will focus on the art of scientific storytelling in facing the challenges of the Anthropocene. Our aim is to learn together how to tell vivid science-smart Continue reading →