Autumn in Tennessee is bursting with beauty and complexity, making the season ideal for writing about what is seen and experienced outdoors. In this three-week course, you’ll experiment with practices designed to increase mindful engagement with natural landscapes and the more-than-human world around you, deepening your sensory and intuitive experiences of the natural environment. Then you’ll translate that experience into writing. These practices will be designed for those who want to write directly about the land in a variety of genres, as well as for writers who hope to develop richer, more realistic, and more meaningful settings for their creative work. Along the way, we’ll consider the diverse forms that nature writing can take, exploring how, perhaps, our work can reach beyond environmental literature, the literature of place, landscape writing—all common ways of understanding what nature writing is. We’ll look at how writers approach the natural world: lovingly, strategically, politically, and lyrically. This course will include two Zoom meetings and one in-person “field day” meeting in a natural setting near Nashville. Participants from locations outside of Nashville are also welcome to register for this course, and will be able to participate in the field day virtually, in the natural setting of their choice.

• Instructor: Melissa Jean

• ngth of workshop: 3 weeks

• Date: Saturdays, Oct. 24 - Nov. 7

• Time: 10 am - 12 pm CST

• Location: Online via Zoom

• Cost: $120 for Non-Members; $108 for members (Don’t forget to use your membership code at checkout!)