Renewal, Reinvention: Edgy Contemporary Forms and Techniques
Experimentation is where it’s at these days—especially in the world of nature writing. If you take a look at today’s best place-based literary journals and writings, you’re going to see a lot of edge. The good kind of edge. Not only has the world of nature writing evolved in terms of content, it’s evolved in terms of form. Check out all the flash, episodic, epistolary, listical, and hermit-crab fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Don’t know what those terms mean? Never fear! That’s what this week is about. Each day, we’ll try several new forms, and you’ll leave having generated creative, original work by taking stylistic risks. We’ll also be reading examples by contemporary nature writers (including some faculty here) as inspiration as to how form can INform content. Appropriate for all genres.
Laura Pritchett is the author of five novels, two nonfiction books, one play, and is the editor (or co-editor) of three environmental anthologies. She’s had over 300 pieces of fiction and nonfiction published, many of which are experimental in nature. She directs the MFA in Nature Writing at Western Colorado University and resides in her birthplace of northern Colorado. She believes that the future of writing will be collaborative and experimental; that is where the energy lies, and for good reason.
Learn more at www.laurapritchett.com.