Foulden Maar Writing Workshop

Posted: Friday Apr 14, 2023

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In October 2022, a creative writing workshop was held in Middlemarch Library, Otago, New Zealand. Led by writers Kirstie McKinnon and Iona Winter, the workshop invited participants to write with and through Foulden Maar. Foulden Maar holds stories of the earth dating back 23 million years. Unusually preserved remains of animals and plants provide a window onto a different kind of Earth, while the Maar’s climate record sheds light on what we could expect from the unfolding climate crisis.

With a tumultuous history marked by mining, protest and insolvency, as well as an uncertain future, Foulden Maar was positioned as a space through which ideas about a geological ethics could come to the fore.

The work shared on this page is the outcome of the workshop and time spent by individual participants on their own writing. Some writers have shared recordings of their work, please listen where it is possible.

Foulden Maar Writing Workshop – Mining for meaning (mining-for-meaning.com)