ABSTRACT

Creative Writing covers genres (e.g. novels and short stories) that allow the author to explore environmental issues in imaginative ways using literary devices that cannot be used in ‘factual’ genres like news journalism or academic research articles. This chapter uses examples to show how Creative Writing unfolds over time through workshop methods of conceiving, drafting, reflecting and rewriting. Creative environmental writing is a powerful medium through which complex causal, moral, aesthetic and spiritual aspects of human–environment relations can be explored.