Events

Our next event is online, on Monday 24th November at 7.15pm (GMT). The meeting will be around 90 minutes.

We will be introducing members of Bristol Climate Writers and their work, with short readings, followed by discussion if there's time.

If you would like to take part, wherever in the world you live, please fill in the sign-up form to let us know. A Zoom link will then be sent to you nearer the time.

Please fill in this form at least TWO HOURS before the event so that we don't miss you! We are volunteers and nothing is automated. 

Sign-up form for events

To sign up to the next event (online, Monday 24th November, 7.15pm GMT), please fill in the form below, at least TWO HOURS before the event. We will contact you with details of how to attend the meeting.







Bristol Climate Writers

Bristol, Bath... and beyond


Please note: this page is currently under construction

Judy Darley

Judy Darley is an author, workshop leader and brand engagement manager who draws inspiration from nature and the idiosyncrasies of humans. Judy is the author of short fiction collections The Stairs Are a Snowcapped Mountain (Reflex Press), Sky Light Rain (Valley Press) and Remember Me to the Bees (Tangent Books). Her words have been shared on BBC radio, aboard boats and on coastal paths, as well as in museums, caves and a deconsecrated church. For the past two years, Judy has been co-judge of Clevedon Literary Festival’s Flash Fiction Award. Find Judy at https://bsky.app/profile/judydarley.bsky.social and https://judydarley.wordpress.com/

Mark Goldthorpe

Mark Goldthorpe writes on Substack about the role of imagination in addressing our climate and nature emergency, drawing on content at ClimateCultures an initiative he set up in 2017. ClimateCultures is a network and space for writers and other artists, as well as researchers and curators interested in creative responses to the emergency. He has a life-long interest in stories, as reader and sometimes writer.



Nick Hunt

Nick Hunt is a travel writer and novelist whose books include Red Smoking Mirror, Outlandish, Where the Wild Winds Are and Walking the Woods and the Water. He also works as a co-director of the Dark Mountain Project and is a Royal Literary Fellow at the University of Bristol.



Helen Moore

Dr. Helen Moore is a pioneering British ecopoet, writer and scholar with three acclaimed collections, Hedge Fund, And Other Living Margins (2012), ECOZOA (2015), and The Mother Country (2019). Helen curates ECOPOETIKON, an online showcase of global ecopoetries, and teaches at two British universities. A collaboration on a cross arts-science project exploring a Dorset watershed inspired river / run, a trilogy of long-form ecopoems, published in 2024.



Caroline New

A mother, grandmother, activist, environmentalist and writer, currently editing 'Blank Times' - a humorous fantasy set in a post-apocalyptic neo-fascist regime run according to Ten 'Planetary Principles'.


Pete Sutton

Pete W Sutton is a writer and editor. His two short story collections – A Tiding of Magpies and The Museum for Forgetting – were shortlisted for Best Collection in the British Fantasy Awards in 2017 & 2022 respectively. His novel – Seven Deadly Swords – was published by Grimbold Books. He has edited several short story anthologies and is the former editor for the British Fantasy Society’s Horizons fiction magazine.


Peter Reason

Peter Reason is currently engaged in a series of experiential co-operative inquiries exploring living cosmos panpsychism: “If I call to the world as sentient being, what response may I receive?” He is writing about this inquiry at Learning How Land Speaks. He has just launched Objects&Lives, short writing and imagery reflecting on household and personal objects that hold value through the memories they hold and their associations with family and cultural history. He reviews for Shiny New Books.



Deborah Tomkins

Deborah Tomkins founded the Bristol Climate Writers network in 2017. She is the author of two prize-winning novels, Aerth and The Wilder Path, and numerous short stories.

Deborah was Co-Chair of the UK environmental charity Green Christian 2019-2024.


Maggie Turp

Dr. Maggie Turp is a psychotherapist and author. She is a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance and on the editorial team of their E-Journal, Explorations.

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