Noticing Nature

This workshop is about taking the time to notice, and to express what we notice. Our attention is often grabbed, spent and scattered across screens, platforms and people and it can be easy to forget that noticing is a skill. It can be cultivated, curated and Created.

This writing workshop is led by fiction and non-fiction author Dr Craig Jordan-Baker. Participants will be encouraged to spend time with natural objects, both familiar and unfamiliar, in order to use their senses and imaginations to notice something new. This will be followed by a chance to share writing and reflections in a supportive environment, and to consider what ‘taking notice’ means for you.

About Dr Craig Jordan-Baker

Craig Jordan-Baker is a fiction and non-fiction writer with an interest in landscape, class and natural history. He is author of two novels, The Nacullians and Brick Dust, which follows the lives of a working-class Anglo-Irish family and which the Irish Times called, ‘a multi-layered treatise on memory and the stories we tell ourselves’. His first non-fiction title If the River is Hidden is a collaboration with Irish poet Cherry Smyth about their 2021 pilgrimage along the Bann, Northern Ireland’s longest river. His next non-fiction book Groundwork: On Knowing the Nature Near You (Transworld/Penguin) is due out at the end of the year. Craig is also a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Brighton and regularly runs writing and foraging walks for a variety of organisations.

Low cost places available

We believe the price of our courses should never be a barrier to your learning. If you are unable to pay for a place on this event, you can apply for a bursary place.