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Sea CreaturesVik Sharma and Toby Litt

Vik Sharma and Toby Litt — 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

Louis Glazzard — 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

Adam Beard — 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

Nicholas Jubber — 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

Shana Sullivan — 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

Anne Enith Cooper — 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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Writing From InsideSophie Holland

Sophie Holland — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:23:45 +0000

How would you spend your time if you were locked in a cell for twenty-two hours a day? Beat the walls? Learn to juggle? Yoga? Learn a language, go mad, write a memoir, cry? I have been writing to activist prisoners, most of whom are astonishingly sane and stoic. I would like to share [...]

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A Young God Grows a CosmosCraig Smith

Craig Smith — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:18:54 +0000

11. The young god recalls what happened to her people I was not affected yet I was scared. And it was new to me yet I’d been there before. It triggered memories. Empires rise. Empires fall. As it is on earth, so it was with the gods: even in the heavens, wisdom [...]

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HERE WE GO AGAINBrianna Craft

Brianna Craft — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:10:42 +0000

This blog is an excerpt from Everything That Rises: A Climate Change Memoir, following the first election of President Trump in 2016. I envied those with the ability to speak freely, effortlessly filling journalist’s answers to questions about the Paris Agreement with noise. How were they not scared? It didn’t matter how much [...]

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