Writing the Environment in Poetry and Prose, with Wendy Pratt

York Literature Festival 2026 is back!

 

About the Talk

Author of The Ghost Lake (The Borough Press, 2024) and Blackbird Singing at Dusk (Nine Arches, 2024), Wendy Pratt joins us in conversation to reflect on the environment as stimuli for personal and creative research. Pratt’s work explores themes of landscape and belonging and both publications sit in intertextual discourse with each other, challenging ideas of identity, womanhood and inheritance in relation to the environments we occupy.

 

About the Speaker

Wendy Pratt, Wendy Pratt is an author and poet living and working on the North Yorkshire coast. Her memoir, The Ghost Lake was published by Harper Collins in 2024. Her latest poetry collection, Blackbird Singing at Dusk was published by Nine Arches Press in 2024. She is a fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library where her residency involves research into domestic activities of the 16th and 17th century as research for her current writing project, a historical fiction novel.

Wendy is the founder and editor of Spelt, a literature magazine and community project whose mission is to validate and celebrate the rural experience. Wendy runs workshops and feedback sessions through her subscriber writing community, Notes from the Margin, on Substack.

Doors will open up to 30 minutes before the event.