On Friday 18 August, please join us for a deep dive conversation about writing and ecological grief with award-winning author, Delia Falconer, to be held at Momo Wholefood Café in Newcastle.

In her latest book, Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss, Falconer describes how it feels to live as a reader, a writer, a lover of nature and a mother of small children in an era of profound ecological unravelling.

Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays explore how global heating and species loss are changing not only our planet but our culture. Our emotions, our art, our relationships with the generations around us – all the delicate networks that make us who we are, Falconer suggests – have already been transformed.

In this intimate event, Delia speaks with Hunter Writers’ Centre director, Katherine McLean, about the profound cultural transformations happening alongside the “great acceleration” in human impact on the natural world. Presented as part of the Grieve Conversation Series, this event examines writing and grief in an age of accelerated global change.

During the session, Delia will be offering a writing prompt to participants at the event. You are invited to bring along your favourite writing tools, and join us to write.