Delighted to say my article "Theatre, Ecology and the Secret Life of Naturalism" has just been published in the journal Critical Stages: critical-stages.org/26/theatre-eco… LiFTSPGRSX University of Essex

Tickets are available now for our next event! Matt Howard will be with us discussing his first poetry collection Gall 📚✨⬇️ 📅: 5th July ⏰: Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start 📍: Ipswich Institute 📚: Pop up bookshop by Dial Lane Books 🎟️: suffolkbookleague.org/events-1/matt-…

Organic gardening attracts pollinators like this bee on our broad beans this morning. Shame on you UKGovernment for allowing British Sugar to use the insecticide neonicotinoids; 1 teaspoon can kill 1 billion bees & every EU country has banned its use! Bob Flowerdew Extinction Rebellion Bury St Edmunds 🌍🍃💚🍃 😠

Passed my PhD viva this morning, subject to minor corrections. Elated and relieved in equal measure!

Congratulations to Andrew who has recently joined The Writers Company team. Super Star ✨⭐👏

This afternoon I slept and dreamed it had all slipped away , that we were all ambling to the funeral of life . We were sobbing over Swallows and Small Coppers , crying about Cuckoos and porpoises , choking and gasping about rivers and meadows . And when I woke up . . . the world

All our new creative writing courses are up on our website. They start in Sept. Radio, TV, Plays, Poems, Prose, Support & Community. thewriterscompany.co.uk

I did a quick video about all The Writers Company has to offer. So many courses! So many words to stumble over! youtu.be/md2A0DjRGeI

September is going to be busy! All these courses are booking up fast. The Book Writers Group is full now but there are plenty of other options. Hope to see you soon

Andrew is running two courses for The Writers Company: radio plays and theatre scripts. He's such a great teacher so don't miss out

My review of Chris McCully's excellent new book 'The River of all the Goodbyes' has just been published: caughtbytheriver.net/2023/08/the-ri… Huge thanks to Caught by the River Medlar Press

If the mystery and sublime beauty portrayed in Chris McCully’s ‘The River of all the Goodbyes: An Angler on the Wharfe’ is to be enjoyed by future generations, writes Dr Andrew Burton — then we must demand change for our neglected waterways bit.ly/3Pg2Q3S

Swift bricks to be debated in the Lords. Come on Lords, get this simple, positive, cross-party amendment into law! Hannah Bourne-Taylor theguardian.com/environment/20…

🥳There’s just one month to go until our final event of 2023 🥳 We are thrilled to be joined by Jessie Greengrass who be talking about her highly acclaimed novel The High House 🌿🌊✨ Tickets are available now! ✨ 📅: 6th December 🎟️: suffolkbookleague.org/events-1/jessi…

There’s just one week to go until our final event of 2023! 🥳 Jessie Greengrass will be discussing her novel The High House 🏠 and to celebrate here is a preview of the opening page! 🌿🌊✨ Tickets are available through our website - linked below! 🔗✨ 🎟️: suffolkbookleague.org/events-1/jessi…

From 11 Jan 2024, I'll be teaching a 6-week, face-to-face, The Writers Company Introduction to Playwriting course in Colchester: thewriterscompany.co.uk/courses Please share with any budding stage writers you know. No experience necessary - just curiosity and commitment!

I'm going to be speaking at the Intersections Conference 'Wilding Performance' Central on 17 January about 'wild dramaturgy'...

Delighted to announce that I have been awarded a substantial grant by Arts Council England to develop my creative practice as an eco-dramaturg for the year ahead Eastern Angles nicola werenowska Menagerie Theatre Co Karen Goddard Anthony Roberts @dramaturgs_net HighTide Theatre

Excited to announce that on Sat 20 July 1:45pm - 2:45pm I'll be chairing a panel discussion about the role of theatre in a time of climate crisis, part of this year's brillant Hotbed Festival in Cambridge. Free tickets, bookable in advance Menagerie Theatre Co junction.co.uk/events/hotbed-…

Thank you Menagerie Theatre Co #Hotbed at Cambridge Junction for an inspiring day of new writing by Martha Loader and Louis Catliff and lively discussion chaired by the excellent Dr Andrew Burton on the theme of theatre and the climate emergency 🌍