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Hardback
Published: 17th November 2016
Paperback
Published: 17th November 2016
Hardback, 2nd edition
Published: 16th April 2026
Paperback, 2nd edition
Published: 16th April 2026
Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology
By (Author) Dr Sean Prentiss
By (author) Dr Joe Wilkins
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Academic
16th April 2026
2nd edition
United Kingdom
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Narrative theme: environmental issues / the natural world
Writing and editing guides
Paperback
384
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Offering guidance on writing poetry, nonfiction, and fiction alongside an extensive anthology of models, Environmental and Nature Writing is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing about the environment in a wide range of styles. Now fully revised and updated throughout, this second edition features: a whole new chapter on place-based activities; a more international look at the genre with a completely revised anthology; and a greater focus on climate justice and sustainable transformation. With discussion questions, writing prompts and new extended experiential activities throughout, Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writers Guide and Anthology covers such topics as:
The history of writing about the environment from the ancient world to contemporary works
Image, description and metaphor
Environmental journalism, poetry, and fiction
Researching, revising and publishing
Styles of nature writing, from discovery to memoir to polemic
The craft guide and anthology now wholly conversant to give an in-depth look at the various ways to write about the environment, the book also includes inspiring examples of work by Ross Gay, Mazimiliane Donicht, Nick Neely, Camille T. Dungy, Amy Nezhukumatathil, John Hausdoerffer among many others!
Praise for the first edition: This book presents an introductory history of nature writingcovering subcategories ranging from pastoral and adventure writing to postcolonial and climate change narrativesand serves as a comprehensive guide to the elements of its craft in essays, stories, and poems. Both veterans and newcomers to environmental and nature writing will find inspiration in the exercises and anthology sections, which include work by Camille T. Dungy, Juan Felipe Herrera, Benjamin Percy, and many others.
* Poets & Writers *Sean Prentiss is Associate Professor of English at Norwich University, USA. He is author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave (2015), which won the National Outdoor Book Award for Biography/History and Advanced Creative Nonfiction (2021). He is also co-editor of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre (2014).
Joe Wilkins is Associate Professor of English at Linfield College, USA. His memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry won the GLCA New Writers Award for non-fiction and his work has appeared in Georgia Review, Harvard Review and Slate among many other periodicals.