Book our free masterclass on environmental writing

The climate crisis is one of the biggest challenges we face to date. And writing about nature or the climate crisis can sometimes feel overwhelming. You might be wondering how to write about environmental issues in a way which compels people rather than alienates them. We will be looking at how to write about these issues in a compelling way, with tips and tricks from industry experts.

Our special guests Diego Arguedas Ortiz (journalist and director at the Oxford Climate Journalism Network), Durre Shahwar (editor, writer, PhD) and Taylor Edmonds (poet, writer, facilitator) together bring many years of experience writing about nature across all genres.

Diego Arguedas Ortiz is Associate Director at the Oxford Climate Journalism Network of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. He leads the network’s community of 700 editors and journalists from over 120 countries and supports them in improving the quality and impact of their climate journalism. A Costa Rican reporter, he has covered climate change as his main beat since 2013. His work has appeared in BBC Future, MIT Technology Review, Le Monde Diplomatique, Univision and Anthropocene, among other outlets. His work includes six UN Climate Conferences, the Panama Papers international collaboration in 2016 and on-the-ground reporting from a dozen countries. In 2015, he was the founder of Ojo al Clima, Central America’s first climate news outlet, which he led as its editor until 2019.

Durre Shahwar is a writer, researcher, editor, and an artist with a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from Cardiff University. She is an Associate Fellow of Higher Education and teaches and facilitates creative writing, literature seminars and workshops. Durre is the co-editor of Gathering, an essay anthology on nature, climate, the landscape by women of colour (2024, 404 Ink).  In 2022, she was the recipient of a Future Wales Fellowship and her non-fiction work-in-progress was highly commended for the Morley Lit Prize. She was formerly a Deputy Editor at Wasafiri Magazine, where she was previously a Writer-in-Residence.

Taylor Edmonds is a poet, writer and creative facilitator from Barry. Her work explores themes of womanhood, identity, connection, nature and empowerment. Taylor’s debut poetry pamphlet Back Teeth is out now with Broken Sleep Books. She was the 21-22 Poet in Residence for the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales. She has received a Rising Stars Award from Literature Wales and Firefly Press for her writing for young people.

Join us online at 7.00 – 8.00pm on Wednesday 21st of May. The event will take place on Zoom and you can register here. Everyone is welcome to attend, and the event is free and open to non-members, even if you’re not in or from Wales.

Live real-time captioning will be available.

Do email us at silvia@inclusivejournalism.cymru if you have any accessibility needs we can help with.