Judy Darley

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.

Her new collection, The Last Lighthouse in Rising Seas, is published by Palewell Press, 2026. 

Caroline New

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.

The Wilder Path was shortlisted for The Encore Award in 2026. 

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.

She invites submissions for the Journal, of envronemtal poetry and short fiction.