Into the Woods : The Battle for Tasmania's Forests
Collingwood
:
Black Inc.
,
2010
Z1752662
2010
single work
autobiography
travel
(taught in 2 units)
'For many years, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of a fierce struggle. At stake is the future of old-growth forests. Loggers and police face off with protesters deep in the forest, while savage political games are played in the courts and parliaments.
'In Into the Woods, Anna Krien, armed with a notebook, a sleeping bag and a rusty sedan, ventures behind the battlelines to see what it is like to risk everything for a cause. She speaks to ferals and premiers, sawmillers and whistle-blowers. She investigates personalities and convictions, methods and motives. This is a book about a company that wanted its way and the resistance that eventually forced it to change.
'Updated with a new afterword, Into the Woods is intimate, intrepid reporting by a fearless new voice.' (Publication summary)
Exploring Genres in Creative Writing provides students in the Creative Writing major to complete their major with the opportunity to consolidate, apply, and further develop previously attained skills and critical approaches to creative writing across a number of genre forms.
The intention is to advance students' understanding of forms of writing that both inhabit and challenge genre boundaries and to write in cross-genre formulations.
Students will read in a range of genre styles which may include fiction, the lyric essay, fictional autobiography, the manifesto, creative non-fiction, the prose poem, psychogeography, nature writing, and science writing. Students will have the opportunity to reflect critically and creatively on the stylistic and generic aspects of these readings.
Extended Creative Writing piece (3500 words total)
Class presentation (1000 words total)
