Katie Percival, Author at Writers Rebel

The Climate-Conscious WriterWren James

Katie Percival — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:55:55 +0000

Having worked with hundreds of climate writers over the last five years, the climate fiction I see is mainly dystopian, focusing on the negative effects of climate change without offering proactive solutions. Rather than encouraging action, stories like these make readers shut down and feel anxious. I would love to see more books that [...]

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How Stories Lead to Action Denise Baden

Katie Percival — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:49:37 +0000

Stories both reflect and influence our values and behaviours. How characters behave, what they think and do and feel, and importantly, what they don’t think about or don’t bother doing, sets the cultural landscape against which we judge our own actions and those of others. This makes fictional role models the ultimate influencers – [...]

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Collective VoicesRachel Birchley and Helen Salsbury

Katie Percival — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:08:28 +0000

Pens of the Earth was formed in 2019, its mission to inspire writers to engage with green initiatives and to spread the word by writing positive environmental fiction, poetry and articles. Perhaps one day we would have enough to publish a book (spoiler alert: we did). When we started out, we were driven by [...]

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Sea CreaturesVik Sharma and Toby Litt

Katie Percival — Thu, 22 May 2025 09:33:32 +0000

We’re delighted to share a new climate-themed collaboration between the composer Vik Sharma and our own Toby Litt. Vik has previously worked with poet and Writers Rebel ally Ruth Padel on 24 Splashes of Denial. Sea Creatures is an immersive sequence of three poems, words by Toby, music by Vik. You can listen to [...]

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CoastLouis Glazzard

Katie Percival — Sat, 17 May 2025 11:17:42 +0000

There’s this small coastal town you visited when you were seven years old. Ice cream dripping down your chin and onto the pavement, that glassy stone staring up at you in bubblegum pink. The barely lucid memory of the sun beaming over you. Hands pressed into the mounded rocks. Everyone scooped molluscs into their [...]

The Path to Prison Adam Beard

Katie Percival — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:00:57 +0000

I sit in a small cubicle in the back of a police van and brace myself so I don’t slide off the plastic seat as we are driven through west London. After about half an hour a grand portcullis-like doorway between two brick towers is framed in the small window. As we enter, a [...]

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Monsters to the RescueNicholas Jubber

Katie Percival — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:00:56 +0000

‘The dragon’s coming!’ said the woman beside me. ‘It better be,’ her partner added, ‘we’ve been waiting long enough!’ Down the high street came Tradinno the Dragon, making its way through the Bavarian town of Furth im Wald. Fifteen metres long, with wings vibrating over its scaly body, it breathed out fire behind teeth [...]

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Community, agency and hopeShana Sullivan, MSc

Katie Percival — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:00:46 +0000

We are very glad to be able to share some extracts from the wonderful Scientists on Survival anthology. You can buy it here. I cannot accurately recall a time when I wasn’t aware of the threat of climate change. Throughout this constant awareness, my response emotionally and materially has followed a winding path starting [...]

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If They Bury Us, We Will Be SeedsAnne Enith Cooper

Katie Percival — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:57:52 +0000

The October sky blazed blue and the sun shone on a sea of canvas pagodas in a factory car park. Over 700 people sat between banners that read: stop speculation, stop the genocide and stop arming Israel. An exhibition of Palestinian art hung from the fences. A stall offering Working Class Beer stood opposite [...]

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