WORKSHOP
We need the tonic of wildness...We can never have enough of nature...We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
Henry David Thoreau in Walden
This one day workshop is an ideal opportunity for you to develop your nature writing skills with the acclaimed landscape writer, Mark Tredinnick, and explore Olvar Wood Writers Retreat.
Join Mark Tredinnick in gentle and inspiring workshop designed to help you write evocatively and clearly about the natural world.
Through a hands-on, interactive workshop, you will be guided through a range of exercises and encouraged to express your own ideas about the world and our place in it.
WHAT's INCLUDEDThe nature writing workshop includes all tuition materials, feedback on your sample submission, morning tea and lunch.WHENThe masterclass runs from 10:00am until 4:00pm on 17 April, 2010WHEREOlvar Wood Writers Retreat is a beautiful 20-acre bushland retreat in the sunshine Coast hinterland - about an hour and a half drive north of Brisbane. Detailed driving directions will be sent to you when you book.COSTThe cost of the day-long nature writing workshop is $90.00 per person, including morning tea, lunch, and all tuition materials.
Friends of Olvar receive a 15% discount.
QWC, ACTWC and NRWC members receive a 10% discount.
BOOKINGSYou can book and pay online using the Paypal button below, or contact us by phone or email:
5445 9222
About Mark Tredinnick
Mark Tredinnick is a poet, essayist and writing teacher; he lives in Burradoo, in the highlands southwest of Sydney in Australia’s southeast. His books include The Blue Plateau, The Road South, The Little Green Grammar Book, The Little Red Writing Book (published in the United States and the United Kingdom as Writing Well: the Essential Guide), The Land’s Wild Music and A Place on Earth. Mark is working on a volume of poems (The World in its Other Life) and a book about the consolations of literature in a frantic age. His honours include the Blake Poetry Prize, the Newcastle Poetry Prize, the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize (runner up), the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Calibre Essay Prize, and the Wildcare Nature Writing Prize.
You can find out more about Mark by visiting his website. Click here.
Olvar Wood Writers Retreat. Queensland, Australia