Writing the Uncanny Landscape Workshop with Justin Hopper

Sunday, 16 March 2025 at 14:00 at The Holloway, Norwich

Writing the Uncanny Landscape In a time of climate change and enclosure; of the 'non-human' and the 'more-than-human', our relationship to place is increasingly one defined by the uncanny. In this afternoon workshop we'll begin explore ways of approaching 'landscape' as a topic or element of your writing in this uncanny age. We'll discuss ideas borrowed from philosophy, art, music and literature, and create strategies for using uncanny landscapes as a means to intensify your work or simply defeat writer's block - whether you work in fiction or nonfiction; poetry or prose; spoken word or written pages. And we'll do brief exercises to begin teasing out these ideas before we even leave the room. The intimate workshop includes a talk by the workshop leader on concepts of 'landscape' and the uncanny in the arts and literature; ideas include the 'more-than-human' landscape, hauntology, the uncanny picturesque and edgelands. Strategies garnered from the work of contemporary artists, philosop…