Embracing Nature: Writing Workshop on Liberation through Climate with Lorraine Wilson

Join us on 16th November for this workshop exploring liberation through climate!

This is a rescheduled event originally part of WorldCon.

Please be mindful when booking. This is a session for Black writers & writers of colour* based in Scotland, the UK, and Ireland.

Join a one-hour workshop hosted by Lorraine Wilson. Through discussion and writing prompts, we’ll explore how the climate emergency challenges us to resist the forces that harm nature, how nature itself is resisting this harm, and how it can be a lens for speculative futures and a tool of liberation.

The workshop is open to all Black writers and writers of colour in Scotland, the UK, and Ireland. All experience levels welcome, including those trying out creative writing for the first time!

We have a limited number of data and carer/childcare bursaries available for attendees. Please contact us at scottishbpocwriters@gmail.com if you would like more information.

If you have registered for a ticket but then are unable to attend please do let us know so we can offer it to another person on the waitlist.

This event adheres to SBWN's Safer Spaces Policy.

Access

Before participating in this online event, please note the following:

• The event will be live captioned by Otter.ai, the transcript and audio recording will be deleted after 4 weeks.
• Events are hosted online using Zoom (link will be sent to participants closer to the date).
• To participate you will need an internet/wi-fi connection, a desktop or mobile device to join by audio and/or video and writing materials/device.
• You may mute your mic/switch off video or take a break at any time.
• All SBWN events will adhere to our Safer Spaces Policy.
  

Questions? Email scottishbpocwriters@gmail.com.

About Lorraine

A conservation scientist and third culture Scot, Lorraine lives by the sea writing stories influenced by folklore and the wilderness. She has a PhD from the University of St. Andrews and is the author of several books most recently The Last To Drown, and the upcoming We Are All Ghosts In The Forest. 

Winner of a BFA for her short fiction, her books have won the SoA ADCI Literary Prize, been longlisted for the BSFA, finalists for the BFA, Kavya and Saltire Awards, and twice winners of the SCKAwards. 

Lorraine has been stalked by wolves, caught the bubonic plague, and befriended pythons, but she now sticks to herding cats.