Writing Landscape and Setting in the Anthropocene

Philippa Holloway is a novelist and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Staffordshire University, UK. As a writer and academic her work is published in internationally, and she has curated international writing projects and collaborated on interdisciplinary projects related to energy production and nuclearity.Craig Jordan-Baker is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Brighton, UK. He is principally a writer of fiction and non-fiction writer and has published peer-reviewed research in a range of creative writing journals. He is also a dramatist, short story writer, arts journalist, walker and forager.

• Foreword – Graeme Harper.- 1 Introduction – Craig Jordan-Baker and Philippa Holloway.- Part I: Researching and Writing Landscape.- 2 Walking and Making: A Collaborative Autoethnography of our Creative Recoveries – Chris Reading and Jess Moriarty.- 3 Walking In Circles: Getting There, Somewhere, Nowhere – Jenn Ashworth.- 4 Myth-Making and the Urban: Alienation, Folklore and Re-Enchanting the Land – Jon Mason.- 5 Looped: Visually Mapping the Stories of the Past Framed by Experiences of the Present – Barbara Chamberlin.- Part II: Ecocriticism, Psychogeography and Creative Writing.- 6 Disturbing the Weather: Women Outdoors – Moy McCrory.- 7 Psychogeography of the Six Towns: Lyric Cartographies of Stoke on Trent – Mark Brown and Maria J. Martinez Sanchez.- 8 Micro Econarratives: Foraged Poems and Botanical Forms – Lisa Mansell.- Part III: Figures in the Landscape: Character, Place and Context.- 9 Oneiric Spaces: Diaspora, Disappointment and the Locus Amoenus – Craig Jordan-Baker.- 10 Zonesof Alienation: Placing Roadside Picnic and Stalker in the Chernobyl Zone – Nick Rush-Cooper.- 11 Character and Place in ‘Alice and North’ – Anne Caldwell.- Part IV: Writing in the Anthropocene and Beyond.- 12 Jon McGregor’s Reservoir 13: The Posthuman Pastoral in the Contemporary British Novel – Jon McGregor.- 13 The Sand Library: Multispecies Storymaking in Morecambe Bay – Claire Dean.- 14 Then, Now, Forever? Researching and Writing Nuclear Landscapes for The Half-Life of Snails – Philippa Holloway.- 15 A Terrible Beauty, or We Are All Ecopoets Now – Katherine Coles.