Vicki Jarrett & Chris Beckett: Global Warnings

About the event

How can we survive and make sense of our lives in today’s complex world? Are we consuming the world, or are we in fact being consumed?

Venturing far up North into the endless ice of the Arctic and deep into the hidden waterways of South America, authors Vicki Jarrett (Always North) and Chris Beckett (Beneath the World, A Sea) seek to answer those questions, disturb the order of our minds and share concerns about climate change.

Chaired by Cat Hellinsen

 

About the speakers

Vicki Jarrett is a novelist and short-story writer and lives and works in her native Edinburgh, dividing her time between writing and teaching English and creative writing. Nothing is Heavy, her first novel, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award in 2013.  Her new novel, Always North, came out with Unsung Stories in autumn 2019.

Chris Beckett (born 1955) is a British social worker, university lecturer, and science fiction author. He has written several textbooks, dozens of short stories, and six novels.

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