On Saturday 22nd March, I’ll be reading one of my hopeful dystopian flash fiction ‘Fishing For Green and Blue’ at Climate & Nature in Poetry and Prose, a morning of reading in the Waverley Room at Clevedon Library (37 Old Church Road, Clevedon BS21 6NN) as part of the Green Shift Festival.

The event is free, happens from 11am to 12.30, and there’s no need to book, just turn up.

There will be readings including The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth, an extract from ‘Aerth’ by Deborah Tomkins, ‘Healing the planet / Healing ourselves’ by Ben Okri, ‘Birthday’ by Simon Armitage), and a short extract from ‘Islands of Abandonment: Life in the post-human landscape’ by Cal Flynn, as well as my flash about rising sea levels.

The readers are all local activists and writers. It should be a great, thought-provoking morning.

And from 2pm, Annie, a psychotherapist and counsellor, will be running a workshop on finding resilience in a time of climate uncertainty.

Both events are free, but you need to register for the workshop by emailing sustainableclevedon@gmail.com.

I’d love you to come along if you’re available and fancy a trip to beautiful Clevedon.