Liz was interviewed by Holly McElroy for Wales Art Review. From the article, ‘As part of Wales Climate Week 2020, creatives and academics came together via zoom to discuss ‘the role of storytellers in shaping the narrative and communal imagination towards action and engagement with the climate crisis?’ In this article Holly McElroy explores the […]
What wisdom can you reach for when the unimaginable happens? On 6th February my apparently healthy 25-year old son Raphaël collapsed and died. Every week, all over the world, thousands of young lives like his are snatched away by sudden cardiac failure. Who knew? Not me. Before that, I was like most people. I never […]
Dear Great Britain, aka the United Kingdom, issuer of my passport, former colonial power, home of Sir David Attenborough and manufacturer of good crisps, Royal scandals, comedy shows and inventor of the word “sorry”- So, you got Brexit done. But are you great? Are you united? As someone born within your shores I am supposed […]
Liz didn’t write this cogent article on cli-fi in the movie world but she wishes she had. It’s by her niece Sally Jensen, and was first published in Film Stories Magazine.
Opening scenes. A freak polar vortex blankets the US Midwest with snow, ice and bitter cold, bringing society to a standstill. After consecutive floods, droughts and cyclones, a city of 9 million people runs out of water. Record-shattering heat hits rich European countries, killing the most vulnerable and parching once-verdant hillscapes.
On 11th October, the new campaigning group XR Writers Rebel held its first event in Trafalgar Square as part of Extinction Rebellion’s October Uprising For news and updates, follow Writers Rebel @XrRebel on Twitter, and our Facebook page Short film by Simon Spence How many literary event organisers learn, at three hours notice, that their stage and […]
The Danish writer reflects on success, addiction and divorces in three volumes of compulsive autofiction: Childhood, Youth and Dependency Tove Ditlevsen. Photograph: Per Pejstrup/Press Association Images For the four decades after the outbreak of the second world war, Tove Ditlevsen was one of Denmark’s most famous and extravagantly tortured writers, whose many identities – dreamy […]
Liz is co-organising a ground-breaking literary event in London as part of Extinction Rebellion’s October Uprising… watch this space. #WritersRebel
In the three years since Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement berated literature for its failure to rise to the challenge of climate breakdown, fiction writers have made up for lost time. Indeed cli-fi, once a subset of science fiction, has been so quickly subsumed by realism that its days as a self-contained genre may be numbered. The […]
“I want you to act as you would in a crisis,” the 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg told Davos. “I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.”
When a kid in pigtails speaks truth to power, the world listens.
I know a glaciologist who spends much of her time deep in ice. Like many of her colleagues, Birgitte has found and measured pieces of the climate jigsaw for herself. She can see how and where they fit in the future picture of our shared home, to the point where she sometimes wishes she knew less.
