NEW ARTICLE: Jakob Reid comments on Professor Kang's findings and the emergence of a 'Disaster subculture' in reaction to extreme climate events. • LINK IN BIO TO READ 🌏 • Want to write for us? Join our WhatsApp group chat and drop us a message! We have new pitches out every week or send through your own article idea. 🐗🌱 • #subculture #climatemergency #climateevents #climatewriting #studentnewspaper
To honor the rare double brood of the cicadas in North America, I'm re-releasing some climate creative writing I did in 2021 🪲 this is a self-nerd snipe about cicadas, anime, and climate change. The full post is on my website...you know where to look for that! ⤴️ #andreanarosnikart #cicadas #creativewriting #eva #neongenesis #evangelion #climatewriting #climatechange
NEW ARTICLE: James Watson examines Scotland's failure to reach key climate targets, noting the effect the shortfall could have on both a national and global scale. • LINK IN BIO TO READ • Interested in writing for us? Join our WhatsApp group chat and drop us a message! 🐗🌱 • #scotlandclimatechange #climatewriting #studentnewspaper #climatenews #environmentalnews
5.5.24 Climate Cafe Embroidery Workshop + Art Build. We spent a rainy Sunday afternoon in Bushwick embroidering haikus on climate feelings! This is a collective piece that will be displayed at the Climate Imaginarium on Governors Island. 🪡💚 As activists, artists, and community organizers, we’ve experienced a spectrum of emotions around the climate crisis. Through this installation, we hope you will have a sense of possibility for the future so we can continue to do this important work as a community!
NEW ARTICLE: Music x Climate. Patsy Barker covers Billie Eilish's new plan to reduce her environmental impact as one of the world's most renowned musicians. • LINK IN BIO TO READ • Interested in writing for us? Join our WhatsApp writer's group and drop us a message! 🌱🐗 • #studentnewspaper #climatecrisis #billieeilish #climatewriting #nomusiconadeadplanet
There are two tickets left for tomorrow's show. Buy them to make it the fifth sell-out show in a row! https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/armaghtheatregroup #toxicrelationships #climatechange #climatechangeawareness #climatewriting #climatestories #theatre
Come along to our next IWC Climate Writing Session! Featuring author and host Kerri ní Dochartaigh 🍃 Kerri will be joined by two very special guests: ▪️Author and poet, Alice Kinsella ▪️A representative from @channel_mag, a literary magazine born out of the climate crisis. Made possible by @dublincityoflit. 🗓️Wednesday 29 May 2024 🕥 7 - 8.30pm 💻 Online (Zoom Webinar) 🎟️ Free (Booking required. Book via link in bio @irishwriterscentre) #ClimateWriting #AliceKinsella #irishwriters #irishpoets #irishwriterscentre
Our featured writer today is Cairngorms poet, Karen Hodgson Pryce, with her stunning poem ‘The Flung’. ‘Some lodge in the sweet noxious hem of a laundry line.’ https://paperboats.org/the-flung/ #ClimateWriting
Move over dystopia, we don’t want to go down The Road to hell, so let’s write new narratives. Naive? No, the future isn’t written yet … if we believe in different we can create it. UPDATE: this will now be one jam-packed afternoon on Saturday 27th, 3-6pm, with a Zoomed appearance from the incomparable Manda Scott. And it’s FREE. Link to book in bio. #writingworkshop #climatewriting #writingclimate #totnes #transitiontowntotnes #totnesclimatehub #extinctionrebellion #writersrebel #thrutopianfiction
Incredibly excited to host @easkeysurf and @a.h.a.m.m.0 from @common_k_ tomorrow 7-8.30pm BST @irishwriterscentre Climate Writing Group. This is free and via zoom. Sign up on @irishwriterscentre site or on my stories 💙 #irishwriterscentre #climatewritinggroup #climatewriting #writingthroughemergency #commonknowledge
Due to popular demand, ANOTHER PERFORMANCE of 'Toxic Relationships" by @armagh_theatre_group is happening on 2nd May 2024, in Abbey Lane Theatre, Armagh at 8 pm Tickets in the link https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/armaghtheatregroup #climatewriting #climateaction #theatre #insta_armagh #armagh
Our featured writer today is @susanelsley with her thoughtful piece ‘Snow Drought’. ‘For those of us that love the snow, the loss is visceral.’ https://paperboats.org/snow-drought/ #climatechange #scotland #climatewriting
🌎️ As we celebrate #EarthDay, we hope you'll check out what Telling Room alums Mo Drammeh, Leela Marie Hidier, and their peers are doing to make a difference with this new video from the @maineclimatecouncil. To watch, visit our Link in Bio! #MaineClimateCouncil #MaineYouthForClimateJustice #MYCJ #Youth #Maine #MaineWontWait #Environment #ClimateChange #ClimateSolutions #Sustainability #MaineYouthWontWait #University #ClimateActionPlan #climatewriting
. . ☕️Coffee & currently reading☕️ 🌍 Day edition 2 books to recommend in honor of Mother Earth: 🌏 I loved Lydia Millet's fiction books The Children's Bible & (especially) Dinosaurs. Her 1st foray into writing nonfiction, We Loved It All, addresses the climate crisis & resultant happenings on earth, as her fiction does. Part memoirish personal narrative, part call to action, it's appealing & also meandering. Many of the disjointed tidbits of memory or environmental facts intrigue; the hopping around requires patience. One chapter opens w/a remembrance of Sony walkmans (oldster alert!), jumps to past boyfriends, then early humans & the invention of mirrors, ground sloths, hyenas, camping trips, social media posts & octopuses. Even my ADHD brain is a bit challenged! But this is a compelling love letter to the earth, particularly its animals, and her descriptions of now-extinct creatures are heartbreaking & effective. 🌍Miracle Country, Kendra Atleework's memoir, is about the fragile joy of family & landscape & set in my home state of California in the Sierra Mountains. With the 1st sentence of the opening chapter entitled Kindling, she captures the fear of Mother Nature when living with drought & the threat of wildfire: The valley lay dry that winter, & wind roared over the mountains. She then weaves a masterful, moving family portrait w/the story & well-researched natural history of her small hometown & a contemplation of a future in jeopardy. 🌍Luckily my obligations don't keep me inside today, so I'm going to try to spend my time outdoors, reveling in CA springtime & maybe eating a kumquat off our tree (😉 @zoetorrey ). As for the planet, we've been reusers & recyclers & composters & carriers of shopping totes for years (local businesses charge a fee for bags) & recently replaced our fuel-inefficient minivan w/an electric car. More to do, of course. All lawmakers in the US actually acknowledging that there IS a climate crisis would certainly help. Couldn't restrain myself😤. 🌎Do you have an Earth Day read to recommend? Doing anything to celebrate or help our planet today? How about on the day-to-day? [today's giveaway hint in stories!]
NEW ARTICLE: Jakob Reid details how looking into Venice's resilience in the past can inform us on how to move forward with present initiatives to mitigate the socio-ecological issues that climate change poses. • LINK IN BIO TO READ • Interested in writing for us? Join our WhatsApp group, grab a boar membership and drop us a message! 🐗🌱 • #climatenews #veniceissinking #climateresilience #climatemergency #climatewriting #studentnewspaper
Recently, discussing works in progress with two writer friends, I described the collection I’m writing as ‘climate stuff.’ I realised, afterwards, that that’s not quite accurate. While extreme weather and climate breakdown seem to thread through my stories whether I like it or not, what I’m really trying to write about is people. How do we relate to the places around us even as they burn or are washed away? How do we keep moving forward in our lives – what apathies and ignorances must we make peace with and at what cost? The new stories I’m writing are full of people trying to find a way through; learning, as we all are, to live through change. As I write them: the snow in the garden is almost gone after a shockingly cold and long winter which is still not over in many parts of the country; the government continues to regress, moving away from important climate goals in favour of short-term gain. I write because it’s a tool I can use to try to transcribe and externalise feelings of despair, uncertainty and fear about the future; but also as an act of hope, a reaching towards what power there might be in putting it all down on the page. (I return to this theme of change regularly, just like I return to this local spot through the seasons, to try to pin down the particular quality of the light there and take in the view of the lake from a different perspective.) #earthday #earthday2024 #earthdayeveryday #climatewriting #naturewriting #naturewritingbywomen #shortstorywriter #amwriting #amwritingfiction #writingcommunity #writing #writersofinstagram
NEW ARTICLE: Sunehar Aneja reviews Clean the sea! An environmentally-focused game, where players are tasked to take part in ocean conservation efforts. • LINK IN BIO TO READ 🌊🐗 • Interested in writing an article for us? Join our WhatsApp writer's group, grab your boar membership and give us a message! 🌱 • #studentnewspaper #oceanconservation #gamenews #gamereview #climatewriting
Move over dystopia, we don’t want to go down The Road to hell, so let’s write new narratives. Naive? No, the future isn’t written yet … if we believe in different we can create it. UPDATE: this will now be one jam-packed afternoon on Saturday 27th, 3-6pm, with a Zoomed appearance from the incomparable Manda Scott. And it’s FREE. Link to book in bio. #writingworkshop #climatewriting #writingclimate #totnes #transitiontowntotnes #totnesclimatehub #extinctionrebellion #writersrebel #thrutopianfiction
NEW ARTICLE: Martin Day describes the strange effects global warming is having on timekeeping. • LINK IN BIO TO READ 🌱🕑 • #studentnewspaper #climatewriting #climatenews #timekeeping #globalheating
“So much ordnance remains that the casual observer, treading quietly upon a permitted path, might still stumble upon the dry flakes of shrapnel among the leaf litter, the rotting branch of a rifle, a polished pebble of lead shot, as if the men had simply set down their weapons, laid down on the earth, and turned into trees.” 🌳 In Islands of Abandonment, investigative journalist Cal Flyn explores some of the world’s most desolate locations, abandoned by humans (completely or partially)due to disaster, disease, war, or economic decay. Her investigation leads her into demilitarized zones, toxic wastelands, makeshift communities on the outskirts of society, and, of course, deserted islands. In each place she visits, nature has rebounded, evolved, or reclaimed these uninhabitable spaces in novel ways that surpass scientific expectation. I LOVED this book. It initially won me over with its structure - I love a well-organized non-fiction that has truly thought through the connective tissue between its essay-like chapters. The writing was also immediately gripping, the perfect balance of lyrical writing with informative and well-researched subject matter. While exploring sites that often have tense and painful histories and presents, Flyn thankfully avoids the major potential pitfall that a work like this could fall into, which is to fail to hold human tragedy and devastation with reverence or to bright-side over the pain caused to humans, animals, and the earth when she describes the improbable rebirth and resilience that has happened in these locations. While empathizing with those who are pushed toward it, she firmly rejects a disanthropic viewpoint and instead carefully holds all these tensions in balance. In the end, I felt so satisfied by this reading experience and at the same time, I was so fascinated by the individual subjects of each chapter that I’m inspired to pick up full books that cover their histories more deeply. It’s a gift to finish a book feeling both better informed and excited to learn more.
Coming up next Wednesday, a free Creative Writing for the Climate Workshop with #PlymouthLaureateofWords Rosemarie Corlett, in collaboration with @ClimatePlymouth, at The Gallery Cafe, @TheatreRoyalPlymouth. 🌍 Find out more about the Climate Cafe and book a free place via the Theatre Royal website. #climatecrisis #climateemergency #climateaction #climatewriting #Plymouthwriters #Plymouthpoets #creativewritingworkshop
We may be mid-way through April, but let's take a look back at some of the climate wins from March! 🎉 • Also if you're interested in writing for us, join our WhatsApp group via the link in our bio 🐗🌱 (you must have a boar membership via the su website!) • #climatewriting #climatenews #positivenews #studentnewspaper #climatemergency
Katrina’s Books in the Wild: A Nature Book for Every Month Forget Me Not by Sophie Pavelle 🐬🪲🦋🦇🐝 Sophie’s appreciation of both the joys and concerns of the environmental crisis makes this an uplifting read. Her humour creates a tone which sneaks in important and sobering information about the wildlife and habitats she visits. Travelling with as low a carbon impact as she can, Sophie goes from the south coast all the way to Orkney to discover ten UK species impacted by climate change. The impact of renewable energy efforts, conservation projects, replanting and rewilding are all more complex than they first appear. Rather than inspiring fear, her journey inspires hope for these underdog species. 🐇🦋🦅🐝🦇🐟🪶 #mrbsemporiumofreadingdelights #mrbsemporium #bookshop #indiebookstore #bath #naturewriting #climatechange #climatewriting #ukwildlife #booksinthewild #forgetmenot #sophiepavelle @sophiepavs
NEW ARTICLE: Sarah Smith discusses a breakthrough in environmental legislation after the French parliament have voted in favour of a bill to ban fast fashion advertising. • Read it now! Link in our bio or visit theboar.org/climate/ 🌱 • Interested in writing for us? Join our WhatsApp group! (Link in bio). 🐗 • #fastfashion #studentnewspaper #climatenews #environmentalnews #climatewriting
Thank you ArmaghTheatre Group cast and crew and especially director, Margery Quinn, for all your hard work - all shows for next week have sold out! #climatechange #climateaction #climatewriting
The Rosemary McLeish Poetry Prize 2024 will open next week! We still have a few copies of the 2021 winners' anthology, if you'd like to see what won our debut year. Prize for a single poem from a UK-based writer on a Climate theme: winners will be invited to read their poems at Medway River Lit in November, alongside an amazing lineup of local, national and international writers! Check out our website next Thurs for full details! #poetry #poetrycomp #climatewriting
📖 We can't wait to welcome you all to our Zoom Nature & Environmental Writing Workshop for young adults, taking place on April 27th! Swipe to meet our ambassadors, Xin Yi and Ellen, who will be running the session - then sign up for free at the link in our bio ☝️ #writing #writingcommunity #writersnetwork #writingworkshop #writingopportunity #nature #environment #environmentalpoetry #environmentalwriting #naturewriting #climatewriting #earth #earthday #citizensofearth
Something I wrote during the storm the other day ⛈️🌀 a heads up in advance that most of what I have to share on here atm is eco angst , religious hypomania and anger at men lol I've used goodgriefnetwork.org/resources lots for eco grief and would recommend it to anyone else who ever needs it #ecopoetry #naturewriting #climatewriting #ecogrief
NEW ARTICLE: James Watson discusses the new wave of climate denial that has taken a rise on social media platforms. • LINK IN BIO TO READ 🌱📱 • #climatewriting #climatenews #climatedenial #studentnewspaper #socialmedianews
The Saturday, 20th April 2024, show for "Toxic Relationships" has sold out, and Flash Fiction at the AE Festival is almost sold out (though we're keeping some spaces to sell at the door during the festival). It's a great feeling to see the tickets in demand all around! Here's the link for the Thursday and Friday tickets for "Toxic Relationships." https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/armaghtheatregroup/toxic-relationships/e-dqlybg @irishwriterscentre @icrag_centre @armagh_theatre_group @visitarmagh #armagh #theatre #climatechange #climatewriting
NEW ARTICLE: Abhay Venkitaraman discusses the recent impact of the climate crisis on the price of this year's Easter chocolate. • Want to read? Click the link in our bio! Or visit theboar.org/climate/ • We hope you all had a lovely Easter weekend! 🌱🐣 • #climatenews #studentnewspaper #theboar #climatewriting #financenews #eastereggs
What landscape makes you feel most at home? Is the natural world a source of sustenance for you? Anxiety? Wonder? How has a changing climate changed you? Have you yearned to write about the earth? This 4-week Environmental Writing class starting April 5/6, depending on your time zone, offers a nurturing space to do just that. I’m so looking forward to it, with the wonderful instructors below!😍 Led by award-winning Australian artist and writer Clare McFadden and acclaimed US writer Liza Cochran. From their website: ‘Whether you’re an absolute beginner or have a regular writing practice - Please join writers Clare McFadden and Liza Cochran for an online writing class this April to explore these questions and more. The group will meet for a 2-hour session once a week to learn the craft of creative nonfiction (personal narrative). Over the course of the month, participants will develop a portfolio of writing: reflections, stories, mini memoirs, and an essay drawn from their own experiences—with a focus on the natural world and our place in it. This writing community will seek out sources of agency and hope, while engaging with the environmental crisis of our lifetime: the changing climate. If you’d like to join, or if you’d like further information, please fill out the expression of interest form at this link:’ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_lX8gg_HAEz1OaOU8jz3ThrwPsruJTf-CxR3ORkaYujgZEg/viewform https://www.claremcfadden.com/environmental-writing-class #environmentalwriting #climatewriting #climateaction #writingworkshops #onlinewriting #creativenonfiction
🪱Discover what is lurking in the murky terrains of the underworld by joining us for a special evening of poetry and films at the Society, celebrating the 88th issue of one of the UK's most prestigious poetry magazines, Magma. 🍄Familiar mythologies will resurface through their own invention, odes will be written to parasites and mycorrhiza will come to the surface in an interconnected song... 💬Scroll through to meet the poets and editors of 'Magma 88: Underworld', who will be introducing the evening’s performances: @boixleo @kate_elspeth @elladuffypoet Submerge your spirits in the gnarly roots of what lies beneath… Book now by heading to our linkinbio and clicking 'What's On'🔗 #GeoPoetry #EcoPoetry #ClimateWriting #PoetryEvent #UnderworldPoetry #PoetryFilm #UKPoetry #PoetryCommunity #Mycorrhiza #LondonPoetry
This is an excerpt from 'Mother Earth, I promise...' by Wildheart (Australia), our Wednesday Words feature for this week. The poem is a call-to-action for the climate crisis and our destruction of the natural world. If you feel inspired by this piece, look out for our Environmental Writing Competition for teens, which opens on Monday! Learn more at http://writetheworld.org. #poem #poet #youngpoet #youngwriter #environment #earth #earthwriting #earthday #nature #climate #writersnetwork #writingfeature # #climatecrisis #climatewriting
💻 Join our next Climate Writing Group! This session will be hosted by author @kerrinidochartaigh and will feature Irish surfer, author, artist and marine social scientist @easkeysurf! Explore climate action through fiction and creative nonfiction. Supported by @dublincityoflit. 🗓️ Wed 24 April 2024 🕥 7.00-8.30pm 💻 Webinar 🎟️ Free (booking required via link in bio @irishwriterscentre) ✏️ Kerri ní Dochartaigh Kerri ní Dochartaigh is a mother, writer and grower. Her work currently explores ideas of emergency, interconnectedness and ecologies of care. Her first book, Thin Places, was published by Canongate in Spring 2021, for which she was awarded the Butler Literary Award 2022, highly commended for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2021, and shortlisted for the Ireland Francophonie Ambassador’s Literary Award in 2024. Cacophony of Bone was published by Canongate in May 2023 and was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2023. She mentors and teaches worldwide. She lives in the west of Ireland with her family. ✏️ Dr. Easkey Britton Dr. Easkey Britton is a renowned Irish surfer, author, artist and marine social scientist from Ireland with a deep love and passion for tapping into the healing powers of the sea. She specialises in the interdependencies between the ocean and humans, contributing her expertise in ‘blue health’ on national and international research projects. Her ground-breaking journey to Iran in 2013 introduced the sport of surfing to women and local communities and is featured in the award-winning documentary film, Into the Sea. She is the author of several books on our human relationship with water including her memoir ‘Saltwater in the Blood’ (2021), and most recently, ‘Ebb and Flow: Connect with the Patterns and Power of Water’ (2023), a feminist reimagining of the meaning of power through the lens of water. #climatewriting #irishwriterscentre
Dear ones, it’s time to register for our third and final Living Future Saturday of the season on April 6! This is going to be a wonderful one, with presentations from the amazing local organizer and performer Dasan Ahanu @dasanahanu and writer and listener Kate Schapira @schapira.kate.j . Dasan will be speaking on the power of art in personal exploration, catharsis, and collective understanding, and Kate will lead participants in reflective and imaginative exercises to draw on their own sources of strength to meet climate change and walk away with their next climate commitment. This will be a dynamic and interactive gathering, and we hope to see you there! Visit the link in our bio to register for in person or livestream tickets 🌲🎟🫶🏼 #solarpunkeducation #schoolforlivingfutures #livingfuturessaturdays #climatewriting #durhamncevents #dasanahanu #kateschapira #lessonsfromtheclimateanxietycounselingbooth #climateanxiety #climateart #climatecommunity
📖 We are excited to announce our next young adult workshop, Nature & Environmental Writing, which will take place on Saturday, April 27th at 11 am Eastern Time! From flash fiction to poetry to essay forms, writing about nature is a powerful way to make sense of and preserve the world around us. In this FREE Zoom workshop, we will explore this unique genre through published eco-writings and video content before taking the time to write our own pieces. There will also be an option to share your work and receive feedback from fellow writers. The workshop is open to young adults anywhere in the world, and you do not need to be an alum of Write the World to attend. Whether you are a poet, an essayist, a nature enthusiast, or even someone who is completely new to writing, this session is for you! Sign up now at the link in our bio 🌱
A great opportunity to craft your Climate Story! Repost from @livableclimate “If you live a life of poetry, every footstep becomes a poem, every word becomes a poem, every action becomes a poem because you are paying attention and you are caring about what you are paying attention to. Absolutely, it’s the only thing that can change things.” - Chris La Tray @metis_clt We are thrilled and honored to host Montana Poet Laureate and Métis storyteller Chris La Tray for an evening of poetry and reflection on Friday, March 29 from 6-7pm in the Montana Natural History Center Ellen Knight Classroom. Co-hosted by @worddog.missoula 🌺 This workshop will provide the opportunity for writers and community members to work on their storytelling and poetry, and to explore our connections with one another and with the natural world. All ages and skill levels welcome! Please join us on this journey to seek beauty, express grief, connect over shared values and build lasting, meaningful change toward a livable future for all. 🌱 #Poetry #MontanaPoetry #ClimateArt #ClimateWriting #Storytelling
"If you live a life of poetry, every footstep becomes a poem, every word becomes a poem, every action becomes a poem because you are paying attention and you are caring about what you are paying attention to. Absolutely, it’s the only thing that can change things." - Chris La Tray @metis_clt We are thrilled and honored to host Montana Poet Laureate and Métis storyteller Chris La Tray for an evening of poetry and reflection on Friday, March 29 from 6-7pm in the Montana Natural History Center Ellen Knight Classroom. Co-hosted by @worddog.missoula 🌺 This workshop will provide the opportunity for writers and community members to work on their storytelling and poetry, and to explore our connections with one another and with the natural world. All ages and skill levels welcome! Please join us on this journey to seek beauty, express grief, connect over shared values and build lasting, meaningful change toward a livable future for all. 🌱 #Poetry #MontanaPoetry #ClimateArt #ClimateWriting #Storytelling
Join us online tomorrow for a special climate writing group session! 🍃 Climate Writing Group: Writing for a Change with Lynn Buckle and Lauren James 🍃 Join in to explore climate action through fiction and creative non-fiction. 🗓️ Wednesday (20 March 2024) 🕦 7-8.30pm 🎟️ free (booking required) 💻Online 🔗 Get tickets via link in bio @irishwriterscentre The host for the evening is author Lynn Buckle, who will be joined by author, Lauren James. These sessions are made possible by the support of @dublincityoflit . ✏️ Lauren James Lauren James is the Carnegie-longlisted British author of many Young Adult novels, including Green Rising, The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker and The Loneliest Girl in the Universe. She is a RLF Royal Fellow at Aston University and the story consultant on Netflix’s Heartstopper (Seasons 2 and 3). Lauren is the founder of the Climate Fiction Writers League, and member of the Society of Authors’ Sustainability Committee. She works as a consultant on climate storytelling for museums, production companies, major brands and publishers, with a focus on optimism and hope. She runs a Queer Writers group in Coventry, where she lives. ✏️ Lynn Buckle Lynn Buckle won the international Barbellion Prize for chronically ill and disabled authors in 2022 with her novel What Willow Says, published by époque press. It is a celebration of deafness, familial love, nature, and the language of trees. Other work includes her debut novel The Groundsmen, and literary articles and creative non-fiction for The Irish Times, Arachne Press, Massachusetts Review, Exacting Clam, Books Ireland Magazine, and various anthologies. She has taught in adult education for over 35 years, including creative writing and visual art. She represented Ireland as a UNESCO City of Literature Writer in Residence at the UK National Centre for Writing, is the judge of several writing competitions, and founder of the IWC Climate Writers Group. #climatewriting #irishwriterscentre
3.16.24 Climate Poetry Discussion & Writing Workshop. We had a reflective afternoon at the McKibbin Lofts in Brooklyn reading poetry together and writing some of our own verses. Stay tuned for some poetry that we’ll share soon! ✍️💚
Meet writer and listener Kate Schapira @schapira.kate.j , one of our guests for the next Living Futures Saturday on April 6 at @amerunderground alongside performer and cultural organizer Dasan Ahanu @dasanahanu ! Link in bio to register for in person or livestream attendance. 🌏✍️👂 In Kate’s interactive offering, “The World Belongs to Everybody: Finding Our Community Abundance and Climate Potential,” she will lead participants in reflective and imaginative exercises to draw on their own sources of strength and identify their collective ability to meet climate change and the forces that cause it. You’ll walk away with a plan and companions in your next climate commitment. Kate Schapira has been listening to people about climate change for ten years, at the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth and elsewhere. She lives in Providence RI where she teaches nonfiction writing at Brown University and a involved with local efforts toward environmental justice, climate justice and peer mental health support. The exercises in her new book, Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth, offer actionable steps for connecting with others, identifying and activating community abundance, matching your skills with organized climate activism, and imagining a radically more livable future in order to bring it into being. Learn more about Kate Schapira and Dasan Ahanu and register for tickets now ✨✨✨ #kateschapira #peercounseling #climateanxiety #solarpunkeducation #climatecommunity #schoolforlivingfutures #livingfuturessaturdays #durhamncevents #climatewriting
As climate catastrophe looms, Earth puts humanity on trial, questioning Big Oil, Industry, Consumer, Farmer, and the Youth about responsibility and solutions before an impatient Moon passes judgment. A cautionary tale as well as a call to action. Developed during ' #WritingTheEarth supported by @irishwriterscentre and @icrag_centre and staged by @armagh_theatre_group Tickets - https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/armagh/abbey-lane-theatre/toxic-relationships/e-dqlybg #Climatechange #climateaction #climatewriting #theatre #Armagh #insta_armagh #drama #irishwriting #sciencewriting
With climate change's uncertainty, it can be challenging to imagine the future. Reflecting and writing about your experiences can create clarity, build confidence, and serve as a tool to advocate for solutions. As winter days turn towards spring light, journaling is a form of cognitive and active processing that can help organize thoughts about the change we are experiencing. The words don't have to make sense when you are free-writing, and this can allow us to be fully honest, present, and sincere with ourselves, which can help release stress and anxiety. It can also help us make sense of our place in this world, what is underneath our motivations, and the reasons why we care. These imperfect drafts may form the basis of what your climate story might be about. Is journaling something that you do? If so, why? Graphic design by Lauren Boritzke of Heartseed Creative LLC Caption and words by Jothsna Harris and Marta Toledo Alcarazz of Change Narrative LLC #writethroughit #climatewriting #climatestorytelling
For my Norwich-based friends: Launch of Hinterland Magazine's Climate Writing Special 21 March at York Pub 6.30pm (not June as above!) in which I have an essay. I cannot attend from Edinburgh but thought you might like to (on my behalf) as there's some great writing to be heard and drinks and snacks @HinterlandNF #climatewriting #peregrinespirit #essays #creativenonfiction
2.24.24 Climate Book Club + Poetry Workshop. We spent the afternoon in Williamsburg reading and discussing climate poetry! Afterwards we penned our own poems together 🖊🌻 Join us for our upcoming events: bit.ly/ccNY (link in bio)
“One morning during an upstate New York winter, I stood barefoot in a T-shirt, towel over my shoulder, and turned the knob. The gas stove hissed, rattled, and spoofed up an orange-tinged blue flame that startled me. I reduced the intensity and placed the moka on the burner. The espresso sputtered, and the apartment smelled of medium-roast coffee. I asked, and Siri informed me it was seven degrees Fahrenheit outside. I zipped my topcoat up with gloved hands and stepped out, backpack snug against my layers. I live on a busy street in an industrial zone that is also partly residential, and often the emissions from the vehicles passing burn my throat. My exhales are thick like cotton candy. My dad once bought me cotton candy wrapped in a clear polythene bag when I was maybe ten. When I asked what the stuff was, he’d said that it was spook asem. I frowned—a ghost’s breath? But with the climate-change crisis, and the mass extinction of species, the thought that a modern human like me could be a ghost is not far-fetched, especially if innocent-looking routines such as mine continue unchecked.” —Mercia Kandukira Mercia Kandukira was born in Omaruru, Namibia where she obtained her B.Ed at the University of Namibia. As a Fulbright scholar, Mercia obtained her MA in English Creative Writing at @binghamtonu, where she now pursues a doctoral degree in English. Her prose has appeared in Windmill: the Hofstra Journal of Literature and Art, in @alchemy_literary_magazine, and elsewhere. At the “Linktree” link in our bio, tap on “Humans & Nature Digital” to read “Spook Asem,” Mercia Kandukira’s co-authored essay with Leslie Heywood. Pictured: Mercia Kandukira. Photo courtesy of the author. Image description in comments.
Dear friends, it’s time to register for our next Living Futures Saturday on March 2, and we’re so excited to gather with you again at @amerunderground . This month we’ll be learning from painter James Keul @jkeul and poet Kristi Maxwell @kamaxwell . James’s talk, Resilience: Art x Climate, will explore the trajectory of his work, strategies for overcoming climate anxiety and the trauma that can stem from facing hard subjects, and optimistic insights from over twenty years of creating art related to climate change. Kristi’s talk, “Generative Absence” will explore the ways climate change is influencing her thinking about poetic form, and include a reading of poems from her new book, Goners. Visit the link in our bio to register for in person or livestream tickets ✨🎟✨ #solarpunkeducation #schoolforlivingfutures #livingfuturessaturdays #climateart #durhamncartists #climatewriting #lipogram #extinction #environmentalwriting #durhamncevents
One of our most beloved projects is our magazine, The Changing Times. We feel so fortunate to be able to hold space for our community's stories, their responses to the climate crisis, their love for this world around us, and ways for everyone to get involved in answering the call to change. 🌹 We know that we need a chorus of voices from different backgrounds, life experiences, skillsets, cultures, and areas of interest in order to tackle the climate crisis and build a healthy, resilient, connected future. We hope you'll consider joining this project! We are currently accepting submissions for our Spring/Summer 2024 issue. Whether you are a writer, poet, artist, educator, activist, unique thinker, or none of the above - YOUR voice and perspective is needed in this work to build a livable future for all. Head to our submissions page at livableclimate.org/changingtimes (link in bio) to learn more and submit. Extending deep gratitude for you all for your engagement and support 🙏 #TheChangingTimesMag #TheChangingTimes #TCT #ClimateStories #ClimateAction #BuildingCommunity #ClimateArt #ClimateWriting #LivableFutureForAll
Something you might not know: alongside writing fiction, I also work as a freelance copywriter and proofreader. I’ve been writing professionally in the marketing field for coming up to half a decade (what is time?), working across industries as varied as skincare and carbon removal. During this time, I’ve learnt that I feel most drawn to collaborating with clients and companies in the climate and sustainability space who are striving to have a positive impact on our planet and communities. It’s this kind of writing work – research-based, accessible, hopeful and solutions-focussed – that I want to do more of this year. So, if you or anyone you know works for a sustainably-minded organisation in need of a freelance writing professional, I’d love if you kept me in mind! Any questions? My DMs are open, and you can also read more about my approach and experience on my website, linked in my bio ✨ #copywriting #climatewriting #copywritersofinstagram #freelancewriter #smallbusiness #smallbizclub
What landscape makes you feel most at home? Is the natural world a source of sustenance for you? Anxiety? Wonder? How has a changing climate changed you? Whether you’re an absolute beginner or have a regular writing practice - Please join us for an online writing class this April where we will explore these questions and more. We will meet for a two-hour session once a week to learn the craft of creative nonfiction (personal narrative). Over the course of the month, we will each develop our own portfolio of writing: reflections, stories, mini memoirs, and an essay drawn from our own experiences—with a focus on the natural world and our place in it. In our writing community, we will seek out sources of agency and hope, as we engage with the environmental crisis of our lifetime: the changing climate. If you’d like to join us, or if you’d like further information - please fill out the EOI (link in bio) . . . . . . #writer #climatewriting #environment #environmentalwriting #personalnarrative #creativenonfiction #amwriting #amwritingnonfiction #memoir #naturewriting #nature #onlinewriting #writingworkshop #writingclass #writingcommunity
We were delighted to meet author Deane Narayn-Lee, who recently brought in some copies of his children's book about the climate crisis. The Loving Earth is a picture book, beautifully illustrated by Becky Hodgson, which gently explains the climate crisis to young children 🌍📚. #thegrovebookshop #ilkley #thelovingearth #deanenaraynlee #beckyhodgson #picturebooks #climatewriting #climatefiction #childrensbooks #childrensdepartment #bookpick #bookswithheart #booksbooksbooks #indiebookshop #selfpublishedbooks
It's that time again... We are accepting submissions for the next issue of our magazine, The Changing Times! 🌱🙌 The Changing Times is a biannual publication of Families for a Livable Climate which features the voices, stories, and creative responses of Montanans during these turbulent and revolutionary times. It is a space where we share their love for this world around us, their responses to the climate crisis, and ways for everyone to get involved in answering the call to change. We are planning for our 14th(!) issue and we need YOU! We are accepting. submissions of original art, photography, poetry, articles, essays, stories, comics, recipes featuring local or seasonal ingredients, traditional skills, and any other creative pieces being only limited by imagination. Submit through the link in our bio (livableclimate.org/changingtimes) by March 31. We can't wait to hear from you! ❤️ #TheChangingTimes #TheChangingTimesMag #ClimateChange #ClimateArt #ClimateWriting #ClimatePhotography #ClimateActivism #LivableClimate #ArtActivism #ClimateStorytelling #ClimateActionNow #Montana #MontanaStories #LivableFutureForAll
@isg_33's piece 'From the Ground, Light' features in our newest issue. We chatted to Ian about it: "It’s about the failed transition to green energy, of course, the sculpture of the park on the re-landscaped coal-mining grounds looking optimistically to the future but that optimism beginning to fade." "But it’s also about our complex relationships with the landscape, how it’s embedded in ideas about who we are - about the ways we think about the past and how that shapes both our present and how we might think about the future." Issue 14 is out now - links in bio! #climatewriting #naturewriting #climatechange #cnf #nonfiction #indiepress #smallpresspublishing #magazine #hinterlandnonfiction #hinterlandissue14
Can we write #nonfiction these days without writing #climatechange , asks @ionamacduff, one of @uniofeastanglia’s next generation of climate scholars and guest editor of @hinterlandnonfiction’s latest issue. It’s been very inspiring to work with Iona as she carefully curates a climate writing issue that features elemental stories of loss, persistence and connection, @tashirghalephotography’s striking images of Nepalese glaciers under threat, and a conversation with environmental writer #aratikumarrao about ‘seeing’ South Asia’s landscapes to protect them. It’s an issue that strives to capture the collective experience of climate change amidst constant reminders that the world, as Iona writes in her editorial, is running out of time. Get a copy from https://www.hinterlandnonfiction.com or selected bookstores including #whsmith in the UK and #barnesandnoble in the US. #climatewriting #creativenonfiction #cnf #hinterlandissue14
We’re delighted to feature returning author Alison Baxter in our latest issue, with her piece ‘My South Sea Bubble’. “[It’s] about Vanuatu, in the South Pacific. I lived there for two years and it had a lasting impact on me, but looking back I realise how little I really understood about its often tragic past and complex present.” . . Issue 14 is on sale now - link in bio! . . #climatewriting #naturewriting #climatechange #cnf #nonfiction #indiepress #smallpresspublishing #magazine #hinterlandnonfiction #hinterlandissue14
Want some time to sit down and reflect for the new year? Join SCCAN’s Story Weavers Joana and Lesley Anne for a virtual guided session on climate writing on 11 January. Register at the link in stories! #ClimateWriting #SCCAN #StoryWeavers #ClimateReflection #ClimateAction #Storytelling
One of the fantastic pieces of climate writing in our latest issue is 'River Voices' by Joe Shute in collaboration with Bowker Vale Primary School and Nurturing Foundations. Joe told us "It's about working with communities to rediscover 'lost' urban rivers." . . Order via link in bio. . . #climatewriting #naturewriting #climatechange #cnf #nonfiction #indiepress #smallpresspublishing #magazine #hinterlandnonfiction #hinterlandissue14
Words from @thegreenfix_. I don't think you can 'fail' a year if you were still trying to do some good 🌿 Full piece at thegreenfix.substack.com
Friends of SfLF, I’ve started a Substack newsletter called Bright Shards, and one of its purposes will be as a home for essays, interviews, news from the School for Living Futures. The second post, out today, is a little about the background of how the idea for SFLF came to be. If you’re interested in following me there, head over to sarahrosenordgren.substack.com (link is also in my bio at @sarahrosenordgren . #brightshards #substackwriter #substack #schoolforlivingfutures #climatewriting #sarahrosenordgren
Great news! We have a lovely holiday gift for you all - the newest issue of our magazine, #TheChangingTimesMag 🎁 📖 Our community and volunteer magazine team continue to amaze us with the beautiful submissions we get to share in each issue. This issue organically centered around the theme of "place" - in it, contributors share their stories of what, where, and who they are "of." We are excited for you to enjoy the wisdom and beauty our community shares with us within this space, and hope these voices and the inspiration they invoke can play a small part in the cultural and spiritual shifts that are much needed for our planet. Physical copies are hot off the press and on their way to subscribers as we speak. The digital version is available for free at livableclimate.org/past-issues (link in bio). Or, head on over to one of our 34 Western Montana distribution sites (find the list at livableclimate.org/where-to-find-the-magazine) to pick up a copy for free. A deep and sincere thank you to all of you, our subscribers, followers, contributors, and supporters. This magazine was started with the understanding that the climate movement needs folks like all of you - the artists, writers, activists, and innovators - to inspire and guide us during these unprecedented times. With your creativity, your passion, and your energy we can change the narrative from the ground up. We hope you enjoy the issue! 🌱 #TheChangingTimes #TCT #ClimateStories #ClimateAction #BuildingCommunity #MontanaWinter #ClimateArt #ClimateWriting #LivableFutureForAll
Proof copies for our latest issue have just arrived, and it’s available to preorder now! It’s a climate writing special, guest edited by @ionamacduff and featuring an enlightening interview with @AratiKumarRao. . . You can preorder via our online store - link in bio! . . #climatewriting #naturewriting #climatechange #cnf #nonfiction #indiepress #smallpresspublishing #magazine #hinterlandnonfiction #hinterlandissue14
New poem with the @donegalnews_nwng published in yesterday’s issue! This Irish language poem came about as my way of somewhat commentating on the loss of forestland ownership in Ireland. By no means an expert on the topic (the poet has its limits) but nevertheless invested in recent developments. Recital will be coming soon, keep an eye out! 👀 #poetsofinstagram #newirishwriting #forestry #reforesting #irishpoetry #donegal #discoverdonegal #forasnagaeilge #ecowriting #climatewriting #
As COP 28 comes to a close I’m proud to be among the contributors of Hinterland 14 – a climate writing special with wonderful cover art by Nature and Wildlife photographer Tashi R. Ghale, guest edited by Iona Macduff and featuring an interview with author of Marginlands Arati Kumar-Rao. From the editors: “Climate change has become a constant presence in our lives, and increasingly inflects our writing. Yet, actively writing about climate change is not easy. The contributors of this Climate Writing special issue have risen to the challenge, whether it’s writing about forest fires in New Mexico, frogs in Australia, rivers in Manchester, or the effects of human activity and the Anthropocene.” My own contribution ‘From the Ground, Light’ explores the mining heritage of my hometown through the re-landscaped mining grounds of Sutton Manor Colliery and the experiences of a former miner. It reflects on our complex relationships with the landscape and the heritage of our industrial past, but also on the impacts of climate change, our ongoing reliance on fossil fuels, and our failure to transition to green energy. Also featuring work from Alison Baxter, Joe Fenn, Tamsin Grainger, David Howe, Rita Issa, Clara Kubler, Wendy Johnson, Iona Macduff, Meg Mooney, Millie Prosser and Joe Shute, with photography by Tashie R. Ghale. Go to @hinterlandnonfiction to order. #climatewriting #naturewriting #climatechange #environment #creativenonfiction #cnf #nonfiction #hinterlandnonfiction
We absolutely adore the cover of our latest issue, by nature and wildlife photographer @tashirghalephotography . Issue 14 is a climate writing special, guest edited by @ionamacduff and featuring an interview with @aratikumarrao - and best of all, you can preorder it right now via the link in our bio. . . #climatewriting #naturewriting #climatechange #cnf #nonfiction #indiepress #smallpresspublishing #magazine #hinterlandnonfiction #hinterlandissue14
Earlier this month poet and MA Creative Writing student Morgan Greensmith was announced as the winner of the @uoesustainability creative writing competition 'Writing The Unseen' with their poem 'INSTRUCTIONS FOR ANTI-GENSIS'. Described by competition judge, Miriam Darlington, as 'vivid and striking', 'skilfully written', and, 'stylish and well constructed', you can read their winning poem on our website. Morgan has also shared a brilliant blog with us about their motivations and inspiration for writing the piece. Read it on our 'News' pages (link in bio). Images 2 & 3 © Morgan Greensmith
Check out our list of the Best Environmental Books of 2023! And a million thanks to our contributors, including @joeannhart76 , @lilliegardner, and many more! #ecolit #books #bookstagram #booksofig #booksofinstagram #authorsofinstagram #authors #authorsofig #environmentalwriting #clifi #climatewriting #writing #ecoliterature #BenGoldfarb #MarthaNussbaum #PaulBogard #ZillaNovikov #ErinSharkey #KyleMeyaard-Schaap #DavidLipsky #LalinePaull
Looking forward to the blooper reel, @katehanleyauthor! 🤪 Stay tuned for Kate’s new podcast where she chats with all kinds of creatives about their process, self-talk, practices, inspiration and more. In the meanwhile, check out her “How to Be a Better Person” podcast which has HUNDREDS of short and sweet (and/or savory!) episodes packed with truly potent life advice. ✨ #ClimateWriting #WomenWhoPodcast
READING THE WORLD: Iep Jāltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter by Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner (2017) Marshall Islands (11/197) 🇲🇭 The first poetry collection that I’ve read for this reading-the-world project, Iep Jāltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter is a collage of Marshallese culture, Jetn̄il-Kijiner’s lived experiences, and the devastating realities of sea level rise. It is urgent and accessible, deeply personal but stirring in scope. According to the back, this is the first published book of poetry written by a Marshallese author - and what a powerful first collection it is. I’ve always been on the fence about poetry; I have an English degree, so I’ve read and written about a wide variety of poems, but I’m often missing the spark of connection. This book is an exception; it is so beautifully, achingly real, yet polished and precise. I have no idea what her stylistic intentions were, but it feels like Jetn̄il-Kijiner isn’t trying to impress anyone - instead, she’s sharing herself. She’s telling us about her home. She’s asking us to listen. If you can promise one thing, however imperfectly: try not to turn away when the world asks you to witness.
Submissions in all forms are now open for Issue 10! Thanks to continued financial support from @artscouncilireland and to our patrons and subscribers, we're in a position to increase contributor fees for 2024 to €35 per printed page, up to a maximum of €250 per piece, with a minimum fee of €50 for single-page works. We're delighted to be able to bring our fees this little bit closer to the level merited by all our writers' hard work 🙏 Please send us your best words, in English or as Gaeilge, by the New Year – we can't wait to read them ✨