Anthony Nanson
Anthony Nanson is a writer, storyteller, and editor with a background in natural sciences, education, and publishing. A love of nature and the spirit of place informs all his work. He is the author of Deep Time – a prehistoric lost-world romance – and four collections of stories. Anthony has worked widely as a storyteller and, with Fire Springs, has co-produced such ground-breaking ecobardic storytelling performances as Arthur's Dream, Robin of the Wildwood, Return to Arcadia, and Dark Age Deeds of the Celtic Saints. He is also a pioneering ecocritic of storytelling practice. Three of his books – Words of Re-enchantment, Gloucestershire Folk Tales, and Storytelling and Ecology – won honours in the Storytelling World Awards. Storytelling and Ecology was also a finalist in the Association of American Publishers Prose Awards. He has a PhD on 'Ecobardic Desire: ecological storytelling and storywriting' from the University of Gloucestershire, where he teaches part-time, after many years as a lecturer in creative writing at Bath Spa University.
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Awen publications:
Words of Re-enchantment: writings on storytelling, myth, and ecological desire
An Ecobardic Manifesto: a vision for the arts in a time of environmental crisis (co-author)
By the Edge of the Sea (translator)
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Website: http://www.anthonynanson.co.uk/
Blog: https://www.awenpublications.co.uk/blog
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Other publications:
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Deep Time (Hawthorn Press)
Storytelling and Ecology: empathy, enchantment and emergence in the use of oral narratives (Bloomsbury)
Storytelling for Nature Connection: environment, community and story-based learning (co-editor) (Hawthorn Press)
Gloucestershire Folk Tales (History Press)
Gloucestershire Ghost Tales (co-author) (History Press)
Gloucestershire Folk Tales for Children (co-author) (History Press)
