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Dr Sally Flint and Professor Corinna Wagner, University of Exeter, will host a workshop on 14 May 2025 titled "Entanglements and Transformations: Creative Writing and Eco-Art" from 2pm to 4pm (full two hours!) at Magdeburg's Port of Science.  The workshop seeks to co-create new climate themed narratives that connect science, health, education, local/global experiences, observations, research, art, culture, facts and feelings to motivate action to restore and repair our planet. Be inspired to collage words, create images, write poems, stories, micro fiction, lyrics, rap, draw, cartoon, ... in this transdisciplinary workshop. There is no requirement to have done any creative writing before - or to share anything, unless you want to! Please bring pens, paper and your imagination; other art materials are provided. The workshop is free of charge and open to all interested parties but requires registration. A few spots are still open, those interested may please register with PD Dr Nora Pleßke ().

Workshop Plan

Part One: Building New Narratives

Part Two: Transforming Time, Image and Text

After the workshop writing and artwork can be submitted for weaving in the We Are the Possible programme’s anthology to be showcased in policy and public spaces at COP30 climate conference in Brazil (November 2025). (No one poem or story in the anthology will be attributed to one person, as the anthology is collaborative. Contributor’s and supporter’s names appear in an appendix.) Please direct email questions and submissions to: .

We Are the Possible is an international award-winning programme launched since COP26 that co-creates new narratives to imagine a liveable future for all. Working at the interface of science, health, education, culture and the arts, it has brought together millions of people around the world to reflect upon the plight of our planet and deliver a creative and inspiring response to catalyse climate action and solutions at COP Climate Change Conferences and beyond.
We Are the Possible creative outputs are at the heart of our pioneering approach, connecting policy makers, children, youth leaders, teachers and the public to forge a greener, healthier, and equitable Earth for all.

We Are the Possible COP30 anthology is funded by the Met Office UK and British Council and supported by the University of Exeter, UK and the Planetary Health Alliance. The creative writing and eco-art workshop in Magdeburg is sponsored by transSCAPE as part of the transPORT initiative.

Since 2017, the Inklings-Gesellschaft für Literatur und Ästhetik e.V. (Inklings Society for Literature and Aesthetics) has been publishing a newsletter in irregular cycles, which is dedicated to the review of fantastic primary texts. The Inklings Society was founded in 1983 and is primarily dedicated to the study and dissemination of the works of the Inklings, a group of authors around J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Dorothy Sayers, George MacDonald and G.K. Chesterton, but also to the analysis of the fantastic in literature, film and art in general.

From 2022 onwrds, the newsletter will be edited by Marthe-Siobhán Hecke, M.A., M.Ed. (University of Bonn), and Carsten Kullmann, M.A. (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg), offerering a platform for the review of newly published primary texts (e.g. literature, film, series, etc.) that belong to a genre of the fantastic (e.g. fantasy, science fiction, horror, Gothic, dystopia). The editors are currently looking for student reviewers who would like to become part of the editorial team and contribute (academic) reviews of such primary texts for the newsletter. The reviews can be written in German or English. Review copies of literary works will be provided if possible. If you are interested, please contact Carsten Kullmann (). An overview of past newsletter issues can be found here.