“A radicle reaching for a home in the earth”: collaborative nature writing
Join us for a conversation with Jessica J. Lee and Nina Mingya Powles about collaborative nature writing.
Date and time: May 10,2025, 4-5:30pm
Place: Spore Initative, Hermannstr. 86, 12051 Berlin
A conversation about bodies of and in nature, how they move and are moved; about language and land, and writing collaboratively. fieldnotes collective, an international collaborative nature writing project, published the pamphlet this too is a glistening in 2024. In this session, we hear from two of its members, Jessica J. Lee and Nina Mingya Powles, about this project and others.
Jessica J. Lee is an award-winning author and environmental historian. She is the author of three books of nature writing, Turning (2017), Two Trees Make a Forest (2019), and Dispersals (2024), and the children’s book A Garden Called Home (2024). She is also co-editor of the essay collection Dog Hearted (2023), and founding editor of The Willowherb Review. She currently lives in Berlin.
Nina Mingya Powles is an Aotearoa New Zealand writer and poet living in London. She is the author of several poetry collections and pamphlets, including Slipstitch (2024), Magnolia 木蘭(2020), Tiny Moons (2020) and the award-winning collection of essays, Small Bodies of Water (2021). She writes a monthly substack on food and memory called Crispy Noodles.
This event is part of the minor cosmopolitan intervention, organised by the Research Training Group minor cosmopolitanisms of the University of Potsdam.