Finding Your Self in the Landscape
A four-week narrative non-fiction zoom course
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.
Aims
The aim of the course is to explore different perspectives when looking at the female body within the landscape; exploring and experimenting with the way we write memoir or creative non-fiction about that experience.
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, zoom course we’ll be looking at four main areas:
The body as a mirror to the landscape.
The body as a wild animal living in the landscape.
The sensory self as the lens through which you experience the landscape.
How to be a physical presence in your own environment.
Who is this course for?
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 course 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 course is open to all people who identify as women or non-binary.
When:
Wednesdays in August:
5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
7.00-8.30pm UK time
Where:
online via zoom
What’s included
Four zoom workshops
Access to an online platform where resources, texts and notes can be collected.
A thirty minute 1-2-1 feedback session with myself, via zoom based on a 1500 word sample of your work, or as a general chat about your plans and your writing.