How the Light Gets In

Genre Gazing | Questioning Categories in the Era of Climate Change

Issue editors David Sergeant and Ben Smith on how climate fiction troubles the boundaries of genre.

Podcast | Liz Jensen and Gregory Norminton on Climate Change and the Writing Craft

Birds, Bees and the Apocalypse | When Climate Science Met Poetry

Should science and the arts keep their distance? Should the two disciplines come together to galvanise change? Sally Flint, Creative Writing Lead at Climate Stories, recounts her experience…

Different Geographies Read Differently | Climate Fiction and the Global South: A Conversation

Dr Sharae Deckard, world literature lecturer at University College Dublin, speaks to Mumbai-based author Prayaag Akbar about his novel Leila, the differences in how climate change is being experienced, and how this affects fiction and publishing.

The Lit X Climate Visuals | Flash Fiction and Poetry Competition

In August 2020, we asked aspiring fiction writers and poets to submit their response to one of four photographs selected by the team at Climate Visuals, a project looking to create a richer, more informed visual language for climate change through photography. The work of six writers – responding to each of the photographs through storytelling or poetry – is published in Issue 3 of The Lit.

Post-Growth Publishing | Renaissance or Reckoning?

For future success – for future survival, even – we must all exist within planetary boundaries. Danielle Barrios-O’Neill, Head of Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art, ponders on what that means for publishing…

Folklore in the Anthropocene | Old Wisdom for a New World

Folklore is familiar and old. What can it offer in the modern, complex era of manmade climate change? Karthik Shankar argues that – distinct from other forms that have become associated with the exploration of climate change – folkloric tradition can place us in this world and reconcile us to the changes we have wrought.

Abrasion

Holding Out

Salt Lakes

Flow Country

Stolen Sugar

Captain of the Sea