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Writing Ecologically

Environmental Writing Studio Workshop with Catherine Bush

02.07.2024 14:00  – 16:00 

Location: conference room, fourth floor, RCC

with Landhaus Writer-in-Residence Catherine Bush

What might it mean to write ecologically? Or to approach writing as an ecology? This workshop will explore how we can bring ideas of the ecological to our writing practice—creating and enacting relationship, particularly between the human and more-than-human. Participants will discuss these ideas and expand our practice through writing exercises, trying different modes, with a particular focus on the braided essay, which brings different modes—the memoir, researched narrative—into dynamic relationship. Contemporary environmental creative nonfiction often uses this form (in publications such as Aeon, Emergence, Noema, and Orion). The workshop will be an experiment with techniques to enhance porosity and juxtaposition and move beyond the linear. Participants are invited to be exploratory.

The workshop is open to all. No RSVP needed.

More information about the RCC's Environmental Writing Studio here.