Course Information
Where: Online
Date: 22 Sep 2025
Duration: 8 weeks
Skill level: Intermediate
Frequency: Weekly
Sessions: 7
Price: £1,000
Payment plans available
Granta's Writing Nature Workshop: Rewilding Language
What is the role of the nature writer today? Drawing on non-fiction, fiction and poetry from the Granta archive and beyond, we’ll examine the roots and possibilities of nature writing in its broadest sense. We’ll ask how nature writing from the past can help us face an environment in crisis, and how we can approach the world with wonder even as we write with grief, anger and hope.
Over eight weeks, you’ll develop a 3,000-word piece of nature writing. Through a combination of lectures, podcasts, short written assignments, guest talks and group Zooms, we’ll trace the evolution of the genre from pastoral traditions to poetic memoirs, and draw out tools for our own writing practices.
You’ll be given a free one-year digital subscription to Granta magazine, as well as access to curated extracts from Granta books, and the magazine, podcast and video archive. Throughout the course there is insight from guest authors and Granta staff.
You’ll finish the course with a sense of where nature writing has been and where you – and your voice – might take it.
Entry is by application to ensure you get the most out of the course. Answers to commonly asked questions can be found in the Frequently Asked Questions page.
Course completion opens up our Alumni Space, which provides ongoing access to industry professionals, including authors, Granta editors and literary agents.
This course requires up to 10 hours of study per week. Find out more about the course and teaching methodfrom our education partners Professional Writing Academy.
Jessica J. Lee | Course Director
Jessica J. Lee is the founding editor of the Willowherb Review, author of Two Trees Make a Forest and a Faculty Mentor on the MFA in Creative Nonfiction at the University of King’s College. She is a contributor to Granta magazine.
