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Finding Common Ground Between Nature Writing and Fantasy Fiction https://www.writersdigest.com/finding-common-ground-between-nature-writing-and-fantasy-fiction #ScienceFiction/Fantasy #WriteBetterNonfiction #WritingFantasyFiction #WriteBetterFiction #WriteBetterPoetry #PersonalWriting #switchinggenres #FantasyFiction #MemoirWriting #NatureWriting #Memoir #Genre

Compton Creek Requiem #7: Hidden Springs and a Wild Trek to the Other Side

https://www.patreon.com/posts/compton-creek-7-149288617?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

#creeklife #comptoncreek #comptoncreekrequiem #nature #naturewriting #memoir #memories #memoryofplace #naturememoir

Nan Shepherd, novelist of the North-East

Prof Alison Lumsden discusses Nan Shepherd’s novels – THE QUARRY WOOD, THE WEATHERHOUSE, and A PASS IN THE GRAMPIANS – at our 2017 Schools Conference

9/9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUOwRnwNgtI&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WZvMYoKDAL_wwSMSLzDldSY&index=7

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters

“The novels weren’t the point. The point of Nan Shepherd was herself. My mother described what a thrill it was to be carried along by her flow, to circle in the eddies of her experience”

—Fraser MacDonald on growing up in Nan Shepherd’s village, for the London Review of Books

8/9

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/fraser-macdonald/diary

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters

“To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain”

Jo Milne celebrates Nan Shepherd’s achievements as a writer of prose & poetry, an editor, & an inspiring lecturer & traveller who loved literature & landscape

7/9

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/stories/nanshepherd/index.html

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters

But in the climbing ecstasy of thought,
Ere consummation, ere the final peak,
Come hours like this…

—Nan Shepherd, “Summit of Coire Etchachan”
published in WANDERERS: A History of Women Walking, by Kerri Andrews

6/9

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/summit-corrie-etchachan/

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters #poem #poetry #hillwalking #Cairngorms

Summit of Coire Etchachan
Nan Shepherd

But in the climbing ecstasy of thought,
Ere consummation, ere the final peak,
Come hours like this. Behind, the long defile,
The steep rock-path, alongside which, from under
Snow-caves, sharp-corniced, tumble the ice-cold waters.
And now, here, at the corrie’s summit, no peak,
No vision of the blue world, far, unattainable,
But this grey plateau, rock-strewn, vast, silent,
The dark loch, the toiling crags, the snow;
A mountain shut within itself, yet a world,
Immensity. So may the mind achieve,
Toiling, no vision of the infinite,
But a vast, dark and inscrutable sense
Of its own terror, its own glory and power.

“At a time of global ecological crisis … her intuitive understanding of the landscape and the rhythms of nature is both a clarion call and a balm for the soul.”

—Scott Lyall on Nan Shepherd’s THE LIVING MOUNTAIN

5/9

https://theconversation.com/the-living-mountain-in-an-age-of-ecological-crisis-nan-shepherds-nature-writing-is-more-relevant-than-ever-119794

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters

Loch A’an, Loch A’an, hoo deep ye lie!
Tell nane yer depth and nane shall I.
Bricht though yer deepmaist pit may be,
Ye’ll haunt me till the day I dee.
Bricht, an’ bricht, an’ bricht as air,
Ye’ll haunt me noo for evermair.

—Nan Shepherd, “Loch Avon”

📷 : Nick Bramhall, 12 June 2011

4/9

https://www.flickr.com/photos/black_friction/5845274155

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters #poem #poetry

Loch Avon, seen from across Castlegates Gulley. Looking down along the length of a long, narrow, still loch, that lies between the steep sides of a narrow glen. Photo by Nick Bramhall, 12 June 2011.

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“In Shepherd’s writing… true learning—like hill-walking—is arduous. True knowledge of the mountains is only possible through the suffering of the body brought on through the relentless motion of the feet.”

—Kerri Andrews on Shepherd’s nature poetics, via @literaryhub

3/9

https://lithub.com/on-the-nature-poetics-of-the-great-nan-shepherd-bard-of-the-highlands/

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters #Cairngorms #hillwalking

Currently available on BBC Sounds – Robert Macfarlane celebrates Nan Shepherd’s intrepid literary spirit by embarking on an autumnal poetic pilgrimage right into the heart of her favourite wild places in the Cairngorms

2/9

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mfndd

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters #Cairngorms

Nan Shepherd (1893–1981) was born #OTD, 11 Feb. Recently her nature writing & her memoir THE LIVING MOUNTAIN have gained attention—but she was also an important modernist novelist. Charlotte Peacock weighs her contribution to Scotland’s literary renaissance

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1/9

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/quiet-pioneer-the-novels-of-nan-shepherd-1893-1981/

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #memoir #WomenWriters

@jay.perry I like your writing very much and recommend it for people who like #natureWriting !
And I admire that you create both text and illustrations!

#bookstodon #writers #writersCommunity

The burn hidden in the allotments which is slowly being cleared of rubbish. I’m trying to work out what to do along the bank - it’s very bare and is crying out for some willow, but it’s also developing into a bit of a desire path. Ideas welcome! #allotments #gardening #riparian #naturewriting

A stream in a woody area of an allotment, an old tyre and other rubbish lie around. The stream is quite bare of vegetation on one side

@sventetzlaff 2/2
Und werden wir als Tiere geboren, die auf Kultur angewiesen sind, um zu überleben - und sterben auch als Tiere (also biologische Wesen), deren Kultur sich darin zeigt, dass wir einander begraben un betrauern?

spannende Fragen, ganz gleich, ob man die nun auch unter #NatureWriting fassen kann oder wir die "bloß" hier gemeinsam anstupsen
🤔

Writing about elder trees and how downright weird they are open.substack.com/pub/robgalpi... #NatureWriting #BlogPost #Elder #Allotment #Gardening

The Elder

@Nike_Leonhard Mir geht's streckenweise ähnlich wie dir - ich suche auch noch nach einer für mich griffigen und schlüssigen Definition von #NatureWriting
Bis jetzt stolpere ich immer wieder darüber, dass Natur oft als "Nicht-Mensch" und Mensch als "Nicht-Natur" verstanden zu werden scheint -- was für mich unlogisch und falsch ist.
Womöglich muss ich also erstmal rausfinden, welche Definition von #Natur beim #NatureWriting zugrundegelegt wird. 🙄

@sventetzlaff Wenn du eine Geschichte erzählen willst, brauchst du eine "Person" im Zentrum, ganz klar. Und Hymnen an die Natur finde ich persönlich auch nicht zwingend abendfüllend.

Wobei die Sache mit dem #NatureWriting dadurch verkompliziert wird, dass es sich selbst als gattungsübergreifend sieht (wobei mir bislang keine entsprechenden Dramen begegnet sind🤔 ) und sowohl Fiktionales als auch Nichtfiktionales wie z.B. Essays darunter fallen kann.

Bloß das Ding mit Mensch & Natur ...

Frage aus der #Morgenschreibstunde: Wenn ihr an Natur, gar an #NatureWriting denkt, wo seht ihr dann den Menschen? 🤔

#autor_innenleben

Kirkcudbright Book Festival 2026
5–8 March

Kirkcudbright Book Festival celebrates local & national voices, local history, Scottish culture, children’s authors, crime fiction, nature and the environment & much more – full programme online now

https://www.kbtbookfestival.org/full-programme

#Scottish #literature #kidlit #crimefiction #naturewriting #ScottishCulture #bookfestival #Kirkcudbright