Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, Pamela Beasant has been living in Stromness, Orkney, for many years. She is a widely published poet and nonfiction writer, was the first George Mackay Brown Fellow in 2007, and has had seven plays commissioned and performed in Orkney. She directed the Orkney Writers’ Course for the St Magnus International Festival from 2011 through 2017. Pamela has given readings and led workshops all over the UK and in Brittany, Bratislava, Canada, and Australia.
Her Climate Imagination Mini-Fellowship project will take place in Stromness, a town in Scotland’s Orkney Islands. She will coordinate a two-day immersive community event to create collaboratively written poems, based on the Japanese renga form, around the themes of climate change and imagined futures for Orkney and the wider world. Poems will be made available to the public online, and in a limited number of print copies to be made available through the Orkney Libraries.