Anthony Nanson is a storyteller and writer. He has a particular interest in nature, the spirit of place, and the intersection between ecology and myth. He teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University and is a founding member of Fire Springs performance company. Anthony Nanson also runs Awen Publications, a press that aims to publish fiction, poetry, and literary non-fiction that match quality of writing with an engagement with the world.
Author’s Books
Storytelling for Nature Connection: Environment, community and story-based learning
Edited by Alida Gersie, Anthony Nanson and Edward Schieffelin with Charlene Collison and Jon Cree
A treasury of stories, creative activities and methods that environmental educators and storytellers can use to affect people’s pro-environmental behaviour. Read more →
Deep Time
Anthony Nanson
Zoologist Dr Brendan Merlie has wasted his best years in futile pursuit of imaginary creatures. He’s now leading a survey of an ecological hot-spot in a forgotten corner of Central Africa.
Guided by the enigmatic Salome Boann, a woman strangely at ease in the rainforest, with her own reasons for being there, the team discover a “refugium” of prehistoric plant life. Among the forest people, they also hear rumors of animals unknown to science.
Driven by civil war and their own competing desires, Brendan and his companions enter a shifting world in which they must come to terms with the wildness within as well as the wildness around them.
The deeper they travel, the more is revealed, far beyond Brendan’s wildest dreams…