In conversation with Elif Shafak
Acclaimed Turkish novelist Elif Shafak will be at the UEA Spring Literary Festival on 8th March 7-8pm.
News
Ice Diaries wins the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Film Festival Awards in Canada
My book Ice Diaries: an Antarctic Memoir has won the Grand Prize - the Phyllis and Don Munday Award - at the Banff Mountain Film Festival book competition. The Banff film festival is one of the world's largest showcases for films about mountains, mountaineering, climbing and adventure travel.
Urban Encounters 2016 Conference
I will be chairing a panel at this year's Urban Encounters conference at Goldsmiths College, in conjunction with the Tate Modern.
Vintage Classics nature writing event at the Norwich Science Festival
I'll be talking to Vintage nature writing classics authors Sean Borodale, Tim Dee and Mark Cocker on why nature writing matters at 7.30 on 27th October in the Norwich forum auditorium as part of the Norwich Science Festival.
Writing Home - a day workshop at the Royal Institute of British Architects
This one-day writing workshop is timed to coincide with an exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects on the British home.
Theatre in the wild! - A performance at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk
Hide - a site-specific promenade theatre performance in the open.
Ice Diaries - an Antarctic Memoir - published in Canada and the US
Ice Diaires - an Antarctic Memoir is published by ECW Press in Canada and the US in March 2016.
Urban Encounters symposium at Tate Britain
On Saturday 24 October from 14.00-16.00 I will be speaking on a panel at the 2015 Urban Encounters Symposium, entitled '(Re-)thinking the Street. I will give an illustrated talk about the psychogeography of the Antarctic, enitlted 'Antarctica, the Antithesis of Street'.
Creative Writing and Photography weekend at Central Saint Martins, London
On March 7th and 8th in London fine art photographer Diego Ferrari and I will teach one of our creative writing and photography workshops in London, which enable studetns to produce a new body of work linking images and texts.