Irish Writers Centre Climate Writing Group: Writing for a Change. Session Two 2022

Please join us for the second session of 2022 of the Irish Writers Centre Climate Writing Group: Writing for a Change. There is no fee for attending these sessions, they are a gift to all writers to take away and use in their work. The theme of this week’s session will be Spiritual Connections to Nature, with special guests Kerri ní Dochartaigh and Rev David White.

Lynn Buckle is a Deaf/hard-of-hearing author, artist, activist, and tutor. Her novel What Willow Says, published by époque press, won the international Barbellion Prize for ill and disabled authors in 2022. It is a celebration of deafness, nature, and the language of trees. Other work includes her debut novel The Groundsmen, several anthologies, and literary articles for The Irish Times and Books Ireland Magazine. She is the recipient of many literary awards, most recently as Ireland’s representative as a UNESCO City of Literature Writer in Residence 2021 at the UK National Centre for Writing. She is the judge of several writing competitions and founder of the IWC Climate Writers’ Group – part of the world-wide climate writers’ movement, working for a positive future, affecting change through fiction.

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Kerri í Dochartaigh is the author of Thin Places which was highly commended by the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2021. In Thin Places, a mixture of memoir, history, and nature writing, Kerri explores how nature kept her sane and helped her heal … and she asks us to remember that the land we fight over is much more than lines on a map. She has written for the Guardian, Irish Times, BBC, Winter Papers, and others.

Rev David White is a rector in Co Carlow who is involved in both spiritual and practical ecologies, in finding the connections between his faith and nature. Building on spiritual teachings, he encourages practical climate actions in his down-to-earth community initiatives.

Margaret Link, yoga tutor, somatic healer and Shiatsu practitioner will be facilitating a guided visualisation ‘at one with nature’ as part of a writing exercise.

The Irish Writers Centre Climate Writing Group: Writing for a Change is funded by the Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Small Grants Scheme 2022, supported by Dublin City Council.