MCCI Connect: Reflections on practice-led climate fiction research

You are warmly invited to the MCCI's Connect Bridging Innovation, Education and Professional Practice "Reflections on practice-led climate fiction research", with Dr. Jasmine Kirkride, Lecturer in Creative Writing and Digital Technologies at University of East Anglia (UEA). She will be talking about her research on climate fiction, including her most latest book.

The Future of Another Timeline meets The Bone Clocks in this dazzling piece of time-travel climate fiction.

Recruited by the mysterious Project Kairos to change history and save the future from ecological disaster, Echo and Hazel are transported through time to opposite worlds. Echo works as a healer’s assistant in Ancient Athens, embroiled in dangerous politics and wild philosophy. Hazel is the last human alive, in a laboratory on a polluted island with nothing but tiny robots and an untrustworthy AI for company.

For further information about the book, see here: https://torpublishinggroup.com/the-forest-on-the-edge-of-time/?isbn=9781250376831&format=hardback

Bio

Dr Jasmin Kirkbride is a Lecturer in Creative Writing and Digital Technologies at UEA, and was a previous Lecturer in Publishing at City St George's, University of London. She completed her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA in 2023, with no corrections. Her thesis explored radical hope in dystopian climate fiction. As a Lecturer in Publishing at City St George's, University of London, Jasmin taught Publishing, Creative Writing, and English Literature at UG and PG levels. Her research interests included hope in climate fiction, dystopian and utopian instincts in genre fiction, and intercultural concepts of time in the environmental novel.