Art Club: Writing wild worlds
Thu 30 Oct 2025 , 18:30 - 21:00
- Venue
- The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH
- Price
- General Admission: £7.50/Low-income ticket: £3.50
- Facilities
- Baby changing facilities, Hearing loop, Live subtitling, Subtitles, Wheelchair accessible venue
- Event series
- Living with the planet
Discover the vital role that creative writing can play in understanding the climate crisis and our relationship with the natural world.
From eco-poetry and nature memoirs, to climate fiction and plays, our panel will explore how different forms of literature can help us make sense of environmental change, reconnect with place, and imagine more hopeful ways of living.
After the talk, take part in a poetry workshop run by Dr Yvonne Reddick, and explore your own responses and connection to nature and climate through short, guided exercises.
Speakers
Dr Anita Sethi
Anita Sethi is an award-winning writer, journalist, broadcaster, academic and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow with research specialising in topics including natural history. She is author of I Belong Here: a Journey Along the Backbone of Britain which won a Books Are My Bag Award and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize. She has written for publications including The Guardian, TLS and BBC Wildlife, and appeared on BBC radio programmes. She has been a Judge of the Women’s Prize, Orwell Prize, and British Book Awards. @anitasethi
Dr Lena Šimić
Dr Lena Šimić, reader in drama at Edge Hill University, is Dubrovnik-born, Liverpool-based performance maker, local politician and scholar researching contemporary performance, the maternal, and arts responses to the climate crisis.
Lena has collaborated with James Marriott, Platform, on an audio play Three Sisters: A Story from the Climate Future (2023).
Dr Yvonne Reddick
Yvonne Reddick is an award-winning poet, nature writer and scholar of environmental culture.
Her books include Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet (Palgrave, 2017), Burning Season (Bloodaxe, 2023) and Anthropocene Poetry (Palgrave, 2023).
She is the recipient of awards from the Poetry Society, New Writing North and the Poetry School, and the recipient of grants from AHRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the Arts Council and the British Academy.
Chair
Amber Massie-Blomfield
Amber Massie-Blomfield is Director of Fern Culture, a company empowering the arts community to act on climate.
Formerly executive director of Complicité, she's produced acclaimed international theatre projects, and as an author she's written extensively about the transformative potential of arts, including her recent book 'Acts of Resistance: the power of art to create a better world'.
Further information
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Image credit: Ellie Kurttz, 2025
