Writing Wild Pavements

Event Information

This online workshop is aimed at adults or family groups who want to try out creative nature writing for the first time or further develop their creative nature writing. During the workshop you'll have the opportunity to practise writing from your own experience, begin polishing your sentences and contribute a piece of Thumbnail Nature writing (maximum 50 words) to an online anthology.

Street trees and tree pits provide a habitat for a range of other plants and animals, giving vibrancy to pavements from the depths of winter to the hottest summer day. We’ll be celebrating these tiny worlds in prose, poetry or prose-poetry.

Pre-workshop activity: Before the workshop, participants should aim to spend at least 10 mins observing/making notes about/photographing the plants growing around street trees and any animals living among them. Finding out the common names of the plants and animals you find would be desirable but is not essential. If this activity is not accessible for you, then a workaround will be offered during the workshop. 

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Contributors

Amanda Tuke is a nature writer, botanist and birder based in suburban south London. She contributes regularly to Bird Watching Magazine , the London Wildlife Trust blog and has written for BBC Countryfile and Resurgence & Ecologist Magazines. Amanda blogs about nature and her freelance nature-writing journey. Feedback from Amanda's nature-writing workshops: "Brilliant tutor! Really inspiring." "Very thoughtful and engaging workshop." "Thank you for a lovely workshop earlier today. I really enjoyed it".