MA Nature and Travel Writing at Bath Spa University

Do you enjoy writing about the environment, your travels, encounters with wildlife, people and places past and present? Would you like to become a working writer, or to enrich your writing for pleasure? Today’s writing about nature and travel welcomes all of those themes and more, and in this unique and inspiring Nature and Travel writing degree course we will look at the potential of your writing and of these dynamic genres – including where they overlap with memoir, history, culture, science, wellbeing and other genres in today’s marketplace.

Faculty: School of Creative and Cultural Arts  |  Duration: Two years part-time.  |  Study mode: part-time  |  Location: Bath, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Writing in the Field (30 credits) An introduction to writing about nature, place, people and landscapes ‘in the field'. This module is designed to give you a sense of what travel and nature writing is about and how to polish your craft. It begins with an intensive residential event with outdoor and indoor workshops focusing on practical writing, fieldwork and the creative possibilities of our genres.

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