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Liz at the Norwich Book Festival

Books can change the world

Thursday October 24, 5:30 – 6:30pm The Auditorium, The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich

Can we use fantasy to confront and alter reality? Acclaimed authors and ecological activists, Lauren (Wren) James and Liz Jensen, join forces for an inspiring conversation on the power of words, and how literature can be used for radical change.

CLI-FI and Screenwriting course October 2024

Whether you already have a work in progress, want to start something new, or are simply interested in crafting a story from a climate and ecological perspective, this is the course for you. Novelist Liz Jensen and script consultant Eva Svenstedt-Ward will share their experience on aspects of narrative, including world-building, character, theme, plot and context, and help you […]

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Liz at Narrating Global Conflict

Liz Jensen talks with Booker Prize winning novelist
Shehan Karunatilaka about war, fiction, and the role of humour in storytelling.
HUM: Global Conference
12 SEPT ’24
Keynote by Shehan Karunatilaka, 2022 Booker Prize Winner
9-17:30 Multisalen, Room 21.05.54, University of Copenhagen, South Campus
17:30-20:30 docUNight, UN City, Marmorvej 51, Nordhavn, Copenhagen

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Ærø Folkebibliotek – Liz Jensen – i samtale med Kristine Skytte Glue

Torsdag den 19. September Talk in Danish with Kristine Skytte Glue. Gratis tilmelding på arrebib.dk i appen ‘biliotek’ og på bibliotekerne.

Write by the Sea – Kilmore Quay Festival

Discussion – Caoilinn Hughes & Liz Jensen with Hilary Adam White September 27th – 29th , 2024 Caoilinn Hughes (The Alternatives, The Wild Laughter, Orchid & The Wasp) and Liz Jensen (Your Wild and Precious Life, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, The Uninvited) are joined by writer, journalist and conservationist Hilary Adam White for […]

Liz Jensen and Rachel Wilson Working Through Grief: Loss and Hope

This event will show how it’s possible to find meaning, even in our darkest times, in the loss of what and who we love. And in finding them, emerge stronger. Liz’s son, Raphaël Coleman, a climate change activist and former child actor, was just twenty five when he collapsed and died unexpectedly. Rachel faced grief […]

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Book Talk – ‘Your Wild and Precious Life’

Join us for an evening where filmmaker and anthropologist Adam Paaske talks to Anglo-British novelist Liz Jensen about her memoir ‘Your Wild and Precious Life’, the story of how a mother rebuilt herself, reoriented her life and rediscovered the enchantment of the living world. Liz Jensen’s son, a zoologist, conservationist and ecological activist, was twenty-five […]

My Son’s Ark

‘The future we expected has changed shape.’ For the third entry in our Kinship With Beasts series, we bring you a story originally written for our special issue ARK, in which Liz Jensen tells of staggering personal loss in the midst of the world’s cascading crises. A writer and founding member of Extinction Rebellion’s Writers Rebel, her book about […]