Epiphany in place:
writing the environment
Explore your written work with international bestselling Author Cal Flyn
Are you in the early stages of a written project that centres on nature and the environment? Do you need the structure and discipline of a guided course to help you stick to your goals?Are you looking for a peer group for support while you develop your writing and close reading skills? Join the bestselling author of Islands of Abandonment, Cal Flyn, for a six-month course focusing on nature writing, awareness of landscape, rich description and expressing that all important 'sense of place'—all useful skills to develop whatever your medium: journalism, nonfiction, fiction or poetry.
The writing group will offer an opportunity for tuition, written exercises, private feedback and meaningful discussion within a supportive group of writers sharing similar goals. Over four, two-hour-long sessions, Cal will analyse some of the most notable writers in the field, breaking down why they are so good at what they do, before leading discussions and setting thought-provoking exercises. Throughout there will be plenty of opportunity to reflect on your own project, aims, and things that you find difficult. Each participant will also have two 30-minute sessions one-on-one with Cal to discuss your progress and ambitions.
Dates:
Four sessions of 2 hours:
Thursday April 25 | 6pm - 8pm BST
Thursday May 23 | 6pm - 8pm BST
Thursday June 27 | 6pm - 8pm BST
Thursday Aug 15 | 6pm - 8pm BST
Each participant will also have a 1:1 session arranged individually.
All sessions will take place online. There may be opportunity for group meetings to happen in person but this cannot be guaranteed.
Payment plans are available, please enquire for more information.
£240
About Cal Flyn
Website | calflyn.com
Twitter, Instagram, Facebook | @calflyn
Cal Flyn is an award-winning writer from the Highlands of Scotland. She writes literary nonfiction and long-form journalism.
Her first book, Thicker Than Water, about frontier violence in colonial Australia, was a Times book of the year. Her second book, Islands of Abandonment—about the ecology and psychology of abandoned places—is out now. It has been shortlisted for numerous prizes including the Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation and the Baillie Gifford Prize.
Her Second book, Islands of Abandonment is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no man’s lands and post-industrial hinterlands – and what happens when nature is allowed to reclaim its place.
The Sunday Times's Bestseller and Science and Environment book of the year
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation
Shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize
Shortlisted for the title of Scottish Nonfiction Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Award
Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize
Cal’s journalistic writing has been published in Granta, The Sunday Times Magazine, Telegraph Magazine, The Economist and others. She is the deputy editor of literary recommendations site Five Books, and a regular contributor to The Guardian. Cal was previously writer-in-residence at Gladstone’s Library and at the Jan Michalski Foundation in Switzerland. She was made a MacDowell fellow in 2019.
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