You can watch Charlie Sanderson reading ‘The Road is Long’, her winning entry to our Flash Fiction Competition 2024, here – Charlie Sanderson is a voice artist and writer living in the woods with a neurotic labrador and a toddler. She has journalled from childhood and writes poetry and creative nonfiction with the […]
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Just over a year ago, I was lucky enough to see Rich Felgate’s documentary, Finite: The Climate of Change. I’d been asked to chair a Q&A with Rich, Indigo Rumbelow of JSO, and Asad Rehman, director of War on Want, after a showing at the Bertha DocHouse cinema. I don’t think I did […]
We don’t often share videos on Writers Rebel, but this one is special. You probably know Louise Harris as the young woman from the JSO gantry protest over the M25 motorway. Here’s what Brian Eno says about ‘We Tried’: “This beautiful and moving song is a powerful weapon. We need to wake up to […]
Zadie Smith spoke as part of XR’s The Big One on April 21st 2023 outside 55 Tufton Street. Video c/o Real Media. […]
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Brandon Ra Pestano is a 26 year old poet of mixed Guyanese and English heritage from Brighton, England. He has represented the South of England in spoken word at the National Portrait Gallery, as well as performing his poetry at Greenwich West Gallery and having a short poetry film exhibited at the Institute […]
In Almost Invisible Angels, Jay Griffiths & Sir Mark Rylance speak out in praise of insects. Original score composed & performed by Sam Lee & Anna Phoebe. “They do not take the title of angels, being by nature bashful and unassuming, they go by other names – firefly, bee, ant, caddisfly – I wish that everyone who […]
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We were privileged to welcome Lic Torc, climate change poet and performer, to compere THE ANTIDOTE: our beautiful, creative and furious battle cry against climate inertia, staged by Writers Rebel at the Tate Modern on April 15. Here she explains how the climate emergency puts fire in her belly and how she’s working with […]
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Hear author and screenwriter Courttia Newland speak passionately about the climate emergency in a short interview following his performance at THE ANTIDOTE, Writers Rebel’s street literary festival at the Tate Modern on 15 April. Courttia read an excerpt from Seed, from Cosmogramma: and other short stories – his collection of short stories about […]
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Here’s Raymond Antrobus MBE, Rathbone Folio and Ted Hughes award-winning poet, speaking to us about the climate emergency. A long time supporter of Writers Rebel and the climate movement, Antrobus wrote for us back in 2020. Read his short piece here. Raymond performed two poems for Writers Rebel’s street literary festival THE ANTIDOTE, […]
Listen to acclaimed novelist and lifelong activist Sarah Winman speak passionately about our obligation to act on the climate emergency in this short but punchy interview, recorded following her performance of US inauguaral poet Amanda Gorman’s poem Earth Rise. Watch Sarah’s compelling performance here. Or click here to see the entire festival – with […]
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Here’s acclaimed activist, writer and founder-member of our Writers Rebel clan Alex Lockwood, with a clarion call to action. We’ve vanishingly little time left to mitigate against the worst case climate scenarios so if you’re waiting for your time to act: your time is now. Alex wrote The Chernobyl Privileges, a story of […]
Today’s interview is with Nikita Gill, who mesmerised our ANTIDOTE crowd with three poems that find extraordinary in the everyday. She read out her Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse. What are yours? Watch Nikita’s full performance here. Or click here to see the entire festival – with contributions from eminent writers, poets and […]
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Listen to the impassioned interview from Zena Edwards following her performance at THE ANTIDOTE, Writers Rebel’s street literature festival. Zena asked us: “are WE the endangered species?”. Her bold performance suggested we use imagination as a vaccine to the climate emergency. Here’s more: You can watch Zena’s full performance here. Or click […]
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Here’s Lemn Sissay, OBE, official poet of the London Olympics and all-round legend, at Tate Modern in London on Friday 15 April 2022. He’d just come off stage after giving an amazing, inspiring performance for THE ANTIDOTE, a rebellious literary street festival held during the April 2022 Rebellion. You can watch Lemn’s full […]
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Polly Stenham writes for theatre and screen. She shot to fame with the play That Face, which she wrote when she was 19. […]
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Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic and the author of the iconic Fat is the Feminist Issue. […]
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Joe Dunthorne is a prize-winning Welsh novelist, poet and journalist. […]
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Rachel Edwards is a popular TV and print social commentator and the author of the celebrated novels Darling and Lucky. […]
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