Nature writing workshop with poet and essayist Nina Mingya Powles

Nature writing workshop with poet and essayist Nina Mingya Powles

This session will give practical tools to hone your writing skills and inspiration to write your own creative work inspired by nature within the city.

We are thrilled to have ​​Nina Mingya Powles leading this session. Nina is a poet, writer and zinemaker from Aotearoa New Zealand, currently based in the UK. Her debut poetry collection, Magnolia 木蘭, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and was a finalist in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. In 2018 she was one of three winners of the Women Poets Prize, and in 2019 won the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize. Her resulting book of essays Small Bodies of Water was published in 2021. She has also published a short food memoir, Tiny Moons (2020).

Praise for Nina's book Small Bodies of Water:

'A remarkable book' Robert Macfarlane

'A distinctive new voice: attentive and tender' Amy Liptrot

'Elegant, understated, urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. Lee

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Lab at Oaklands Rise, 19 Green Street, London, United Kingdom