Nature Writing (Virtual)

Writing About Climate 

One way we can process our thoughts around the climate crisis and share our messages about climate change and climate preparedness is through powerful, persuasive nature writing. In this two-hour Mass Audubon workshop, you’ll develop tools and techniques to write engaging personal nature essays, with a specific focus on climate. You’ll write from prompts; and for those who wish to share, we may have time to read a portion of our writing out loud. You’ll also receive links to one or two short nature essays to read ahead of the workshop, which we’ll discuss as a group during our session. While this workshop focuses on the personal nature essay, poets, fiction writers, and memoirists will also benefit from the tools, techniques, prompts, and readings. 

You’ll leave the session with a list of resources related to nature writing as well as information on how to continue with and improve your own writing, including information about the publication process. 

Meet your presenter: 

Kim Hoff, Program Specialist at Mass Audubon Connecticut River Valley Sanctuaries, is a nature writer and essayist who has written for Mass Audubon’s Explore as well as for Northern Woodlands Magazine, Grist Journal, and The Journal of Wild Culture.