Nature Writing – with Craig Jordan-Baker
Explore Nature Writing with the brilliant Craig Jordan-Baker – get ready to join our latest online self-paced course.
This short course is a springboard for writers who want to engage with the natural world. You’ll learn techniques to explore your environment, and grow your own writing practice that is rooted in nature.
This course is suitable for writers at all levels – whether you’re seeking to explore an existing writing project, nurture your writing practice, or deepen your awareness of nature through writing.
For early birds who want to spring into action, we will be offering a special discount to mark the spring equinox. Sign up to our newsletter to be the first in line for this special spring discount!
About the tutor
This self-paced course is led by author Craig Jordan-Baker.
Craig Jordan-Baker is a working-class writer with an interest in language, natural history and psychogeography. He studied Creative Writing before going on to obtain a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sussex.
His first novel The Nacullians is a non-linear narrative focussing on the lives of three-generations of a working-class Anglo-Irish family which the Irish Times called, ‘a multi-layered treatise on memory and the stories we tell ourselves’. His second book If the River is Hidden is a non-fiction collaboration with Irish poet Cherry Smyth about their 2021 pilgrimage along the Bann, Northern Ireland’s longest river. It was the Republic of Consciousness Prize book of the month in February 2023 and will feature prominently in this years’ Belfast Book Festival, Skibbereen Arts Festival and the Southbank Centre’s Irish poetry showcase.
Craig is currently a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Brighton and regularly runs writing and foraging walks for a variety of organisations.
'It is rare to find a debut author so liberated from the polite conventions of the creative writing classroom. Craig Jordan-Baker writes with such mischief and narrative daring, like Eric Morecambe, gripping us by the collar and telling us all the right stories but not necessarily in the right order.'