Workshop
12.30 PM – 1.00 PM
Are you a writer who’s worried about the environment? Would you like to learn how to weave climate themes into genres like romance, thrillers or literary fiction? Wren James will be sharing some helpful tips and exercises for incorporating hopeful climate change solutions into fiction. This playful, interactive session is designed to demystify the process of talking about sustainability, build confidence and help us to journey collaboratively together. Wren will share activities from their new writers’ journal The Climate-Conscious Writers Handbook, and explain why fiction is the most powerful tool we have for starting conversations about saving the planet. You have permission to write a story about the climate crisis. You don’t need expertise in science. You don’t need to consider yourself an activist. You only need to be creative and imaginative. Together, we can create a hopeful, optimistic vision of the future of Earth.
About Wren James
Wren James is the Carnegie-longlisted British author of many Young Adult novels as 'Lauren James', including Last Seen Online, Green Rising and The Next Together.
Wren is the founder of the Climate Fiction Writers League, creator of The Climate-Conscious Writers Handbook, and editor of the anthology Future Hopes: Hopeful stories in a time of climate change. They work as a consultant on climate storytelling for museums, production companies, major brands and publishers, with a focus on optimism and hope.
Their books have sold over two hundred thousand copies worldwide in eight languages. The Quiet at the End of the World was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and STEAM Children's Book Award.
Wren was born in 1992, and has a Masters degree from the University of Nottingham, where they studied Chemistry and Physics. They run a Queer Writers group in Coventry. Follow them on Instagram at @wrenjameswriter or at wrenjames.co.uk
