Class Title: "Writing Wild! Using Nature and Place as Inspiration" Instructor: Susan Tweit Class Term: enroll in this class Class Description An individually-tailored workshop with an award-winning writer and naturalist exploring how to write from and about nature and place, focusing on writing exercises, techniques, and markets. Class Outline Week One: Meeting the Wild. How to know the landscape around you. Learn how to identify key elements of their chosen landscape in order to understand what makes it unique, including learning how to use field guides, read maps, and find the literature of their particular place. Week Two: Fragrance of Home. Free writing based on a memory exercise. Private comments from instructor, shared "reading" of excerpts via email if students wish. Week Three: Field Notes. Learning how to pay attention and take notes the way scientists do to enrich writing with real details of nature. Individual exercise, private comments from instructor, shared email "reading" if students wish. Weeks Four and Five: Writing Home. Drawing on the first three weeks to write a short essay, story or several poems that depict a particular place or aspect of nature, and why it speaks to you. Week Six and Seven: Workshop and Reading. After circulating work for constructive comment from the instructor and other workshop students, "read" the final piece via email. Week Eight: Who Cares? A look at markets for writing rooted in nature and place—open discussion via group emails. End with a virtual closing ritual. Student Skills, Equipment required Intermediate writing and computer skills; ability to use and send Word files as attachments, access to high-speed internet, email, ability to listen to podcast and read a blog. Tuition/Fees for this course SCN members: $0. Non-SCN members: $. Instructor Bio Susan Tweit has written eleven books, all of which draw on nature and the land (several have won awards); and hundreds of feature articles, essays, and columns for newspapers and magazines. She has taught dozens of workshops at colleges and universities from coast to coast (University of California - Riverside to Wofford College, South Carolina), as well as at conferences organized by groups like Story Circle Network. She has coached tens of writers individually, by mail and online.