Writing the Green with Lynn Buckle

Join award winning writer Lynn Buckle for a two hour masterclass in climate writing. Suitable for all writers, working in any genre and form. If you are interested in embedding nature, ecology, and solutions to the climate crisis into your poetry, prose, and creative non-fiction this workshop is for you.

Lynn will guide you through writing exercises, reviews, discussion, and teaching. Participants are encouraged to think critically about their approaches to writing about the environment, to broaden their knowledge of the genre, and will learn how to affect change though their artistic vision.

Lynn Buckle

Lynn Buckle is a deaf/hard-of-hearing author, artist, activist, and tutor. Her second novel What Willow Says was published by époque press in 2021, winning The Barbellion Prize. It is a celebration of deafness, transitioning landscapes, and the unique language of trees. Other work includes her debut novel The Groundsmen, anthologies such as What Meets the Eye from Arachne Press, Infinite Possibilities, Brigid, Luisne an Chleite, HCE Review, and literary articles for The Irish Times. Awards include The John Hewitt Society Bursary, Greywood Arts Carers Residency, Shortlist Red Line Short Story Competition, and she represented Ireland as a UNESCO City of Literature Writer in Residence at the UKs National Centre for Writing. She judges several writing competitions and hosts Ireland’s Climate Writers’ Group at The Irish Writers’ Centre, interviewing international authors and encouraging writers of all genres to include positive climate solutions in their fiction.

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