Ashleigh Young and Rebecca Priestley are teaching CREW352: Creative Science Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters again this year. Past students have included undergraduate science and humanities students, experienced writers and journalists, environmental advocates and practising scientists. Students on the course have written engaging non-fiction stories about science and had these stories published in literary journals such as Sport, Overland and Landfall, in the student magazine Salient, and in industry journals such as Organic New Zealand magazine and books such as Tell You What: Great NZ Fiction 2014. Other students have used the course to kickstart a book-length project.
Here are some links to some online stories you can read that were written and workshopped as part of CREW352.
The albatross in the cupboard by Nina Powles on Te Papa blogs
Four circles by Sarah Bainbridge in Landfall
Simply air vibrating by Simon Gennard in Overland
Is it getting hot in here? By Bronte Ammundsen in Salient
Applications for this year’s workshop close this 21 June. You can find out more about how to apply here: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/study/how-to-apply