Open The Door Festival: Crossing Borders - Writing and Environment

The Open University is pleased to support Open The Door, an online festival for Scottish women's writing.

How do you go about writing about the environment, whether wildlife, landscape or what’s right on your doorstep?

Do you need to be a naturalist or expert? Do you need to head out into the hills? No!

Borders writer and Open University tutor Jules Horne shares ideas for expanding your knowledge by interviewing others and working in collaboration.

Get inspiration for creative non-fiction in this online session on the Glasgow Women's Library Facebook page. 

You can try Creative Writing course content on the OU's free learning site OpenLearn, such as the 8-hour course Writing what you know, or the 12-hour course Start writing fiction.

The OU also offers the modules Creative Writing and Advanced Creative Writing, a BA (Honours) English Literature and Creative Writing, and an MA in Creative Writing.