Nature Writing Short Course

Nature Writing short course

with Paul Evans

Wednesdays, 6 pm to 8 pm

7 October to 2 December 2026 (no class for half-term 28 October)

Online via MS Teams (a joining link will be sent to you prior to the course starting)

This is an introduction to nature writing for students wanting to study this genre in a practical way and develop a portfolio of writing for publication or broadcast. During eight weeks of sessions, together with recommended reading and self-directed study, we will explore forms of nature writing such as journaling, fieldnotes, short-form and long-form essays, video/audio essays, ecopoetry, environmental journalism and writing as activism.

We will discuss the role of writing in the Anthropocene and our relations to Nature through natural history, protective conservation, restorative ecology, rewilding, ecosemiotics, personal experience and autoethnography, ecocriticism, ecophilosophy and post-humanism. At the end of the course, students will have amassed a collection of writing useful for taking the next steps in their nature writing practice.

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Email: english-lifelong@bristol.ac.uk
Telephone: 0117 455 8271

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Refund policy:

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• Refunds for our short courses are only to be given in exceptional circumstances and no less than one month before the course is due to start.
• Refunds for a course already started cannot be accepted.
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• Refunds will only be processed once receipt of the waiting list student’s fee has been confirmed and can take up to three weeks.
• If a course is cancelled or withdrawn by the University, course fees will be refunded, normally in full, within three weeks. 

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