The next six pieces are the second cycle of work from our Australian Nature Writing Project.

The pieces were selected by Ben Walter, who also initiated the project. This is what Ben had to say about this set of works.

I love wandering through ridiculous offtrack terrain in the mountains of Tasmania, but with three young kids, I find it can be pretty hard to get away. I’d love to say that reading nature writing serves as a substitute – that it totally compensates for the direct experience – and perhaps it does to a degree …

We are excited to publish the first six articles from our Australian Nature Writing Project. These have been selected by our Online Editor, Ben Walter, who also initiated the project. This is what Ben had to say about the first set of works.

Recently I sat on an upper floor in the Hobart library, intending to write this introduction, but a huge storm was mounding up through the windows; lightning flashed and thunder tore the sky as the clouds whirled grey. I was totally distracted – despite my best intentions, the natural world interfered and I got nothing done. When we began this first of three cycles publishing Australian nature writing, we hoped to find writers who had let nature disrupt their work much more productively …