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This 3-part summer writing workshop series will explore the various ways in which nature writers across multiple genres (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) write about natural environments. One half of each class will be devoted to studying eco-writing that celebrates interconnectedness and beauty; that worries over ecological destruction and climate change; and that calls for community and personal action to preserve and conserve natural spaces. The second half of each class will be devoted to student writing. Working from prompts, students will compose their own eco-pieces and receive feedback from the instructor and their classmates in a workshop setting.
We will pay particular attention to the concepts of “writing local” and how writers, at any stage in their writing journeys, can contribute to the growing body of eco-lit.
**Please note that your ticket reserves your spot for all three sessions. While attendance of every session is not required, it is encouraged for students to maximize their experience.
About the instructor:
Hastings Hensel is the author of the poetry collections Ballyhoo (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019) and Winter Inlet, which won the 2014-2015 Unicorn Press First Book Contest, as well as the chapbook Control Burn, winner of the 2011 Iron Horse Literary Review Single-Author Competition. He serves as Principal Lecturer in the English Department at Coastal Carolina University.
Originally from Columbia, South Carolina, Hastings graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South and earned his M.F.A. from Johns Hopkins University.
His writing has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and he has received several honors, including the Tennessee Williams Fellowship at Sewanee, the South Carolina Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry, and the Hopkins Review Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. He has also been named Grand Strand Artist of the Month. His magazine articles frequently appear in South Carolina Living, and he is a Master Naturalist and the owner of the ecotour company River Reader Kayaking in Murrells Inlet.