Digging with the pen: An introduction to garden writing

Are you inspired by gardens and plants? Do you enjoy reading about how others engage with these external domestic spaces and how they relate to our lives, our pasts and our futures? Perhaps you want to write about your own experiences in a garden or discuss the ways that plants feature in different styles of garden writing. Led by an experienced writer and teacher, this course involves exploring short pieces connected to plants and gardens. You’ll have the opportunity to experiment with some of the themes and linguistic techniques identified and to use plants in the Botanic Garden as inspiration for your own creative pieces.

Nic Wilson is a writer, editor and Guardian country diarist. She works as a freelancer writer and editor for BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine. Her work has appeared in national magazines including The English Garden and The RHS Magazine, and in anthologies such as Women in Nature, Moving Mountains and Going to Ground. Nic has an MA in English Literature, a Diploma in Creative Non-Fiction from the University of Cambridge as well as a Diploma in Garden Design. Nic can be found on Nic Wilson (@nicwilson.bsky.social) — Bluesky