Nature Writing is an ongoing initiative involving editors from the Master of Writing and Publishing’s Bowen Street Press and undergraduates students in RMIT’s Professional Communication program.

The collaboration aims to raise awareness of the environmental and cultural impacts of Melbourne’s inner and neighbouring parklands through digital longform pieces. These pieces are an amalgamation of text, research, audio field recordings, video footage — together they create gentle and thought-provoking digital pieces about our surroundings.

The 2019 edition of Nature Writing aims to incorporate the themes and considerations of RMIT’s Bundyi Girri project. The Bundyi Girri project focuses on the 99.5% of RMIT student population who are non-indigenious. By writing about natural environments and parklands we uncover our relationship to the Indigenious people’s land that we live and work on in Melbourne. As the Bundyi Girri project says:

‘Not everyone has a relationship with an Indigenous person, but everyone has a relationship with Indigeneity by virtue of being on eastern Kulin land.’

This collaborative project commenced in 2017 and previous editions, Through the Foliage (2018) and The Outlands Project (2017), have been reproduced for consistency and compatibility, with every attempt made to capture their original design.