Irish Writers Centre Climate Writing Series: Session #1

Founded in 1991, theIrish Writers Centre's mission is tosupport and promote writers at all stages of their developmentby offering a diverse programme ofwriting courses and workshopsled by established writers across a range of genres includingmemoir, poetry, playwriting, short-stories and the novel. The Centre runsseminars, lectures and readingsrelated to the art of writing and welcomes writers, readers and international visitors.

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Join Cassia Gaden-Gilmartin, editor of Channel Magazine,  &  Aoife Hammond of Queer Sheds Co. Clare for our first Climate Writing Session!

The Irish Writers Centre is delighted to announce our 2026 Climate Writing Series! The Irish Writers Centre Climate Writing Sessions began in 2021 as a free online series originally founded and curated by Lynn Buckle, followed by Kerri Ní Dhochartaigh and Alice Kinsella. The project brings together writers, scientists, and activists to explore how storytelling can respond to the climate crisis. Supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, we hope to create a space for writers of all forms, whatever their level of experience, to engage with climate-related themes through discussion and creative practice. Now in our fifth year, we continue our focus on the intersection of science, activism, and literature. Five one-hour sessions (7–8pm) will take place across April, May, June, July, and September, with a sixth session devoted to the announcement of the winner of the Irish Writers Centre Inaugural Climate Writing Prize. For our first session, we're delighted to welcome Aoife Hammond, co-founder of Queer Sheds County Clare and Cassia Gaden Gilmartin, editor of Channel , Ireland's environmentalist literary magazine, for a conversation about their work, and building sustainable creative communities. This will be an hour-long session, facilitated by Ezra Maloney, programming and communications coordinator at the Irish Writers Centre. Cassia Gaden Gilmartin is founding editor of Channel, a literary journal publishing writing in English and Irish that fosters connection between human beings and the more-than-human world in a time of ecological crisis. She also works as Production Manager at New Island Books and as a volunteer Director of Publishing Ireland, chairing its Sustainability and EDI committees. Her work centres on the exploration of publishing as a relational field, capable of reproducing a society's dominant values or of sparking transformation. Aoife Hammond is a Community Facilitator, Cultural Producer and Musician with nearly 20 years of experience in the social enterprise and community sectors in Ireland.Aoife is the co-founder of Queer Sheds, alongside Fionn Kidney, and serves as Community Projects Manager at Common Knowledge, where they design and coordinate festivals, cultural events and community programmes that bring together climate action, heritage skills, LGBTQ+ inclusion and cultural resilience.They also work as an independent facilitator and arts and cultural producer, curating and producing folk, heritage and intercultural events. More info on the Climate Writing Prize: Each session of the Climate Writing series will end with hosts leaving a writing prompt for attending writers. Attendees can then enter the Climate Writing Prize with:up to 1,500 words of fictionorup to 150 lines of poetry based on any of the five sessions prompts.The winning piece will be awarded €250 and publication in Channel with a runner-up receiving a course bursary for the Irish Writers Centre worth €250. The aim of the Prize is to encourage writers to develop their work beyond the sessions, and to explore the genre of climate writing. The Irish Writers Centre would like to thank the support the Climate Writing Programme has received from Dublin UNESCO City of Literature.

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