Arvon Online Writing Day: Nature Writing - Writing the natural world with Raynor Winn
Raynor Winn is the prize-winning author of three Sunday Times bestsellers: The Salt Path, The Wild Silence and Landlines. Spend a day with Raynor, moving from observation to connection, and embrace the natural world.
Some of the most engaging written views of the natural world come when an author allows us to feel part of the nature they describe, rather than, say, showing us a picture of a hill they put us on the mountainside. John Muir wrote of his time in the wilderness, not as being out, but as going in. When we think of writing about nature, it’s easy to become so focused on what’s ‘out there’ that we forget the greatest understanding can come from being ‘in there’.
If you’re drawn to writing about the natural world, then together we’ll find ways not only to explain the life of a tree, but to feel its energy from root to leaf, to see a bird in the air and show your readers not just how it flies, but the feeling of its flight.
We’ll look at stepping away from the idea of observing the natural world as something outside of ourselves and find ways to express a world of which we are all part, to which we’re all connected, even if we’re not conscious of the bonds. Let’s spend a day ‘going in’.
Date: Friday 14 March 2025, 10:00 - 16:00 GMT
Location: Online
Cost: £90 Concessions: £63
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