Environmental and Nature Writing

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A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Av Sean Prentiss, Joe Wilkins, USA) Prentiss, Dr Sean (Assistant Professor of English, Norwich University, USA, Norwich University, USA) Wilkins, Dr Joe (Associate Professor of English, Linfield College, USA, Linfield College, Sean Prentiss, Joe Wilkins

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Offering guidance on writing poetry, nonfiction, and fiction alongside an extensive anthology of models, Environmental and Nature Writing is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing about the environment in a wide range of styles. Now fully revised and updated throughout, this second edition features: a whole new chapter on place-based activities; a more international look at the genre with a completely revised anthology; and a greater focus on climate justice and sustainable transformation. With discussion questions, writing prompts and new extended experiential activities throughout, Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology covers such topics as:· The history of writing about the environment from the ancient world to contemporary works· Image, description and metaphor· Environmental journalism, poetry, and fiction· Researching, revising and publishing· Styles of nature writing, from discovery to memoir to polemicThe craft guide and anthology now wholly conversant to give an in-depth look at the various ways to write about the environment, the book also includes inspiring examples of work by Ross Gay, Mazimiliane Donicht, Nick Neely, Camille T. Dungy, Amy Nezhukumatathil, John Hausdoerffer among many others!

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Utgivningsdatum2026-03-05
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies
Antal sidor384
Upplaga2
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350346499

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Sean Prentiss is Associate Professor of English at Norwich University, USA. He is author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave (2015), which won the National Outdoor Book Award for Biography/History and Advanced Creative Nonfiction (2021). He is also co-editor of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre (2014).Joe Wilkins is Associate Professor of English at Linfield College, USA. His memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry won the GLCA New Writers Award for non-fiction and his work has appeared in Georgia Review, Harvard Review and Slate among many other periodicals.

Part I: An Introduction to Nature and Environmental Writing1. The Trailhead2. A Short History of Nature and Environmental WritingPart II: The Craft of Nature and Environmental Writing3: Seeing the World, Believing the World4: Living Maps5: People and Place6: The River Above, the River Below7: The Art of Activism8: A World Larger than Ourselves9: The Nature and Environmental Essay, Story, and Poem10: One More Time to the River: Writing is Rewriting11: A Trail Guide12: Place-Based ActivitiesPart III Environmental and Nature Writing AnthologyCreative NonfictionFictionPoetryIndex

Praise for the first edition: This book presents an introductory history of nature writing—covering subcategories ranging from pastoral and adventure writing to postcolonial and climate change narratives—and serves as a comprehensive guide to the elements of its craft in essays, stories, and poems. Both veterans and newcomers to environmental and nature writing will find inspiration in the exercises and anthology sections, which include work by Camille T. Dungy, Juan Felipe Herrera, Benjamin Percy, and many others.