BFL1 - Workshop: Nature Writing With Amanda Tuke

In this two-hour creative writing workshop, participants will be collecting field notes to use as the basis for short pieces of prose which explore the theme of urban nature. Please bring a notebook and, if you are able, have the free Merlin bird identification app and your preferred plant identification app installed on your phone, ready to use during a short nature ramble.      

Amanda Tuke is a London-based urban naturalist and nature writer, and an associate lecturer for the MA in Nature & Travel Writing at Bath Spa University. She also works as a consultant botanist, leads urban plant and bird walks. and teaches botany. Amanda is the author of Wild Pavements: Exploring Britain's Cities with an Urban Naturalist and writes a monthly column for Bird Watching Magazine.