In this workshop led by Laura Fyfe and Karen Lloyd, participants will be encouraged to find new ways to engage meaningfully with the more-than-human-world.

THURS 18 JUNE
6.00 - 8.00pm

THE ROLE OF THE WRITER AMID CLIMATE AND BIODIVERSITY CHANGE

Paperboats is a Scotland-based collective of writers, global in outlook, who focus on nature and our environment in a time of climate and ecological breakdown. Our aim is to consider the role of the writer in the climate and biodiversity crises, and engage in writing that affirms the astonishing life of this planet, and how its future may yet be shaped. In this workshop led by Laura Fyfe and Karen Lloyd, participants will be encouraged to find new ways to engage meaningfully with the more-than-human-world. Through poetry and non-fiction the course is an opportunity to experiment, reflect, explore, and to communicate beauty, truth and complexity through language.

Hosted by Moniack Mhor on Zoom Pro.

Tutor
Karen Lloyd is an author, editor and mentor. Her books include Abundance: Nature in Recovery (Bloomsbury, 2021) longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation and The Gathering Tide (Saraband, 2015) a book of the year in the Observer. Her work has been published on LitHub, Dark Mountain, the Ecologist, BBC Wildlife magazine, in the Guardian and elsewhere.
Laura Fyfe lives in river deep, mountain high Stirling. Her poetry has been published in pamphlets by Red Squirrel Press and Stewed Rhubarb, in literary magazines including Gutter and Butcher’s Dog, and has been shortlisted in the Bridport and Plaza poetry prizes. She was the Stirling Makar for four years. Laura’s non-fiction books Wellspring and Magpie Mind draw on her 15 years’ experience as a tutor with groups and organisations around Scotland, helping writers defeat procrastination and inspire creativity.

We are running this as a ‘pay as you can’ event with available tickets between £0 and £30.