BBC panel on climate fiction

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Last week I appeared on a panel at the BBC’s Climate Creatives Conference, which aired online. You can watch it here.

The new season of Heartstopper was also released this week, which I work on as a story consultant. Jonathan Bailey played a classics historian, and you can find out mroe about his character in the Volume 5 hardback of Heartstopper, where he appears in a mini comic written by me and illustrated by Alice Oseman.

I just got back from a month long writing retreat in Europe – I went to Budapest, Vienna and Prague, and it’s so lovely, but a bit strange, being home again!

I’m diving right back into events, so if you want to see me, here’s where I’m going to be (online, Cheltenham, Norwich, Birmingham, Coventry, London and Nuneaton):

9th October – ONLINE – OH!Con Writing with STEM talk

12th October – Thrillers panel with Kate Weston, Josh Silver, and Amie Jordan – Cheltenham Literature Festival

24th October – ‘Books Can Change The World’ panel with Liv Jensen, Norwich Book Festival

25th October – In Conversation with Molly Morris, Norwich Book Festival

28th Oct – 2nd Nov – Writer in Residence at The Exchange, Birmingham – book a one-to-one writing advice session

2nd Nov – Panel on writing with Lorna French and Philip Holyman – The Exchange, Birmingham

7th Nov onwards – Weekly Coventry Reading group (12.15 – 1.45pm)

17th Nov – YALC – Heart rate critical panel with Karen McManus, Ravena Guron and Finn Longman

21st Nov – In Conversation with Laura Wood, Waterstones Nuneaton

Published by Wren James

Wren James is the award-winning British author of eleven science fiction & fantasy novels, including The Quiet at the End of the World and The Next Together (previously published as Lauren James). Their books have sold over 200,000 copies in ten languages, and The Loneliest Girl in the Universe was optioned for film by Amazon MGM. Wren is a story consultant on Netflix’s Heartstopper, which was awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Writing. Also a RLF Royal Fellow, Wren is the founder of the Climate Fiction Writers League and member of the Society of Authors’ Sustainability steering Committee. They work as a consultant on climate storytelling with a focus on providing optimism and hope. They have won the Sustainable Story Award and been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, Carnegie Medal and STEAM Book Award. Wren’s writing has been described as ‘gripping romantic sci-fi’ by the Wall Street Journal and ‘a strange, witty, compulsively unpredictable read which blows most of its new YA-suspense brethren out of the water’ by Entertainment Weekly. Their latest titles are Last Seen Online, a crime thriller set in the world of fandom, and The Victors, a cosy fantasy graphic novel illustrated by Beth Fuller. Wren was born in 1992, and has a Masters degree from the University of Nottingham, where they studied Chemistry and Physics. They run a Queer Writers group in Coventry. Follow them on Instagram & TikTok at @wrenjameswriter or find out more at wrenjames.co.uk.

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