Writing a Greener Future: A Creative Writing Workshop for Young Writers

Join award-winning author Laura Baggaley for a creative writing workshop exploring thrutopian futures – imagining paths from today toward something better.

As part of Green Libraries Week, award-winning author, Laura Baggaley, will be leading a imagination-igniting, creative writing workshop.

What do you think about the global future? Do you have chirpy optimism or climate anxiety and hopelessness? Green fields or visions of AI-robot-filled dystopian landscapes? In this session, we’ll explore facts and feelings about different possible futures the world faces. We’ll tackle misinformation and climate myths, and explore examples of tangible positive solutions that already exist, alongside our own ideas for creating a better world.

Sparking creative responses through practical writing exercises, we’ll explore thrutopian futures – a genre which is neither dystopia nor utopia, but instead imagines ways through from where we are today to something better. We’ll write letters from the future to our present-day selves, freeing our imaginations to dream big and visualise the new worlds we want to see. The intention is for participants to leave feeling hopeful, inspired and empowered.

This event is part of the Green Libraries Hub project, a national programme led by CILIP and funded by the National Lottery, exploring the libraries' role in supporting communities to take climate action.

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Laura's book are published by Habitat Press: Dirt (winner of Best Book for Teenagers in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards & shortlisted for the Rubery Book Award) and Nourish (longlisted for the Yeovil Literary Prize). She teaches creative writing, literature and drama at City Lit adult education college.