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Introduction to Nature Writing
Are you always searching for the right word or phrase to capture your outdoor adventures? Writers look at the world differently, and you can learn how too. We know Outsiders like to get outside, now work with a bestselling author, Brian Castner, on how to start vividly capturing those peaks and trails.
This is a three-hour intermediate-level workshop for people who want to start writing and join a community of like-minded chroniclers.
During the half-day writing workshop, participants will:
- Take a guided hike for inspiration
- Read examples of great nature writing to understand how they work
- Generate their own short piece of writing
- Share it (maybe!) with the group for feedback
About Brian Castner
Brian Castner is a nonfiction writer, former Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer, and veteran of the Iraq War. His most recent book is Stampede, a new history of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. He is also the bestselling author of Disappointment River, All the Ways We Kill and Die, and the war memoir The Long Walk, which was adapted into an opera and named a New York Times Editor’s Pick and Amazon Best Book of the Year. His journalism and essays have appeared in the New York Times, WIRED, Esquire, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and on National Public Radio. He is the co-editor of The Road Ahead, a collection of short stories featuring veteran writers, and has twice received grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, to cover the Ebola outbreak in Liberia in 2014, and to paddle the 1200 mile Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean in 2016. In March 2018 he joined Amnesty International as a Senior Crisis Advisor. Brian is one of OC’s wilderness guides.
Cancellation Policy:
A full refund minus the 3% payment processing fee will be given for a cancellation request more than 7 days prior to the scheduled event. A 50% refund minus the 3% payment processing fee will be given for cancellations less than 7 days but more than 48 hours prior the scheduled event. No shows or cancellations less than 48 hours of the scheduled event will not be refunded.