Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature - Softcover

Durre Shahwar; Nasia Sarwar-Skuse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1912489740 ISBN 13: 9781912489749

Publisher: 404 Ink, 2024

Synopsis

"The beautiful rolling hills and coastlines are for all of us. Together, we can reimagine the British countryside (and all it represents) and make space so that everyone is welcomed." Gathering brings together essays by women of colour across the UK writing about their relationships with nature, in a genre long-dominated by male, white, middle-class writers. In redressing this imbalance, this moving collection considers climate justice, neurodiversity, mental health, academia, inherited histories, colonialism, whiteness, music, hiking and so much more. These personal, creative, and fierce essays will broaden both conversations and horizons about our living world, encouraging readers to consider their own experience with nature and their place within it.

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About the Author

Durre Shahwar is a writer and the Co-Editor of Gathering, an essay anthology on nature, climate, the landscape by women of colour. She is currently working on her first sole-authored book, a sample of which was shortlisted and highly commended for the Morley Lit Prize 2022. It is a narrative non-fiction book on the themes of language, identity, and belonging as a Pakistani-Welsh person. Durre is repped by Nelle Andrew at Rachel Mills Literary Agency. Durre is a Wasafiri Magazine Writer-in-Residence. She is Future Wales Fellowship Artist, undertaking a year of creative research around climate change with Arts Council Wales and Natural Resources Wales. Durre is an AHRC-funded PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Cardiff University and University of Bristol, as part of which she had taught undergraduate Creative Writing modules and become an Associate Fellow of Higher Education. Nasia Sarwar-Skuse is a writer and PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Swansea University. She has been working as a creative writing facilitator for three years and is passionate about the presence of authenticity in literature by ethnic voices and its intersections with diaspora, gender, and memory. Nasia was awarded the Writers' Bursary by Literature Wales in 2019. Her work has appeared in a number of publications.

Edition details

• Publisher: 404 Ink
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912489740
• ISBN 13: 9781912489749
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Shahwar Durre, Sarwar-Skuse Nasia