Summer of Sustainability - Cli-Fi Workshops

Join Creative Writing programme leader Barbara Henderson for two online sessions on climate fiction ('cli-fi') and writing in all forms about the environment.

You may have heard the term climate fiction. If not, climate fiction, or cli-fi, is a burgeoning fiction genre which considers the effects of climate change on society and the future of the earth. But we can see those themes emerging more and more in any form of writing, whether it's poetry, screenwriting or nonfiction. We see it in the work of fictions writers as diverse as Cormac McCarthy, Octavia Butler, NK Jemisin, Margaret Atwood, Michael Crichton. We see it in the poetry of Fatimah Asghar, David Baker, and Craig Santos Perez.  We see it in the screenplays of Adam McKay (Don't Look Up), Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke) and many documentaries.

It’s all too easy to feel powerless in the face of the headlines about forest fires, air…