How to Survive the End of the World Write The Next World With Us
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Mar 20, 2026 Kate McCabe, founder of Bog & Thunder who curates immersive, sustainable retreats. Max Sussman, award-nominated chef fueling the workshop with thoughtful food. Dwight Dunstan, musician and facilitator who created a live soundscape. They recount a private-island writing retreat in Ireland. Conversations cover collective worldbuilding, music and sound as memory, the ethics of food, and place-based creative practices.
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Ireland As A Radical Teacher
- Writing the Next World is a visionary-fiction workshop grounded in Black feminist praxis that mixes place, politics, and craft to grow writers' imaginative capacity.
- Autumn and adrienne maree brown describe Ireland as a teacher whose cultural memory and political history stoke revolutionary fire for participants.
How Bog And Thunder Sparked The Workshop
- Kate McCabe founded Bog and Thunder to connect food, place, and sustainable travel and invited adrienne and Autumn to revive visionary writing retreats in Ireland.
- She drew on her environmental justice training and Irish family ties to design place-rooted workshops.
Limit News Scrolling To Protect Focus
- Limit compulsive news consumption to reduce anxiety and reclaim attention for creative work.
- Kate credits an episode with Sonia Renee Taylor for prompting her to stop scrolling threads and trust other ways of being informed.
