Writing for a Change is a series of information and writing sessions for a disparate group of writers.

The overall theme is awareness of the planet and encouraging writers to promote positive climate solutions in their work.

Six sessions of 2 hours’ duration will take place throughout 2022 and will be open to writers of every genre, not just those who write about climate change.

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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.

Special Guests:

Kerri ní 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.