MASTERCLASS: Nature Writing in the Biodiversity Crisis: a Day with Novelist Karen Lloyd - SOLD OUT

Nature Writing in the Biodiversity Crisis: a Day with Karen Lloyd  
Sunday 13th October, 10.30am–3pm (approx)
Masterclass tickets are £65 and include a two course lunch and a tea or filter coffee. Please email [email protected] to be notified of any cancellations. 

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Walking the Lake District one day, the poet William Wordsworth came across a leech gatherer, soon to be the subject of one of Wordsworth’s best-known poems. On the day they met, however, William asked the leech-gatherer one particular question: ‘What is it that you do, and how is it you live?’. 

Wordsworth’s question guides this day masterclass. As class leader Karen Lloyd says, the question helps us think about our own place in the world, how we act, and how we respond to all around us.

Participants will work with Karen to consider the role of ‘nature writing’ in a biodiversity crisis. Skills include experimenting with voice and tone, and understanding how we can write in ways that serve the natural world with purpose and responsibility. 

Karen Lloyd is a writer and tutor whose work engages with the environment through literature and the arts. Her aim is that her writing helps to generate understanding amongst non-specialist readers of climate research, biodiversity, and regeneration. As well as writing long-form non-fiction and poetry Karen also publishes journalism, speaks at festivals, and works with broadcasters.

Karen’s first book, The Gathering Tide (2015) was selected as an author’s book of the year in 2015 in The Observer and Abundance – the book that won her residency here at Gladstone’s – was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize in 2022 for writing on conservation. As well as writing about her own locale in the North-West of England, her work also explores environmental and social concerns across boundaries; her current project explores social and environmental justice in a number of countries including Costa Rica, Spain and the UK.


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