Thinking with Water: A Hybrid Writing Workshop
Environmental Writing Studio Workshop
22.09.2026 10:00 – 12:00
Location: Rachel Carson Center, fourth floor, Conference Room, Leopoldstr. 11a, 80802 Munich, Germany
Guest Speaker: Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
Through a series of generative writing prompts and collaborative discussion, participants will experiment with techniques for hybrid writing that move between creative and academic forms. Together, we will read writers such as Lisa Robertson, Sophie Dumont, Alycia Pirmohamed, and Dionne Brand, considering how a creative practice can walk hand-in-hand with scholarly research, opening up a space for experimentation and interdisciplinary dialogue.
Whether you are developing a research project, creative work, or simply looking for new ways of thinking and writing through ecological questions, the workshop offers an opportunity to think across disciplinary boundaries and to discover how hybrid forms can deepen our engagement with place in a time of climate emergency. No prior experience of hybrid writing is required.
The workshop is limited to 15 people. To sign up, please email editors@rcc.lmu.de.
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal is a writer and literary translator born in Palampur, and based in Manchester, where she is working toward a practice-based PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre for Place Writing. Her research writes engineered ecologies into new forms of memory. She studied at St. Bede’s College, Shimla; Trinity College, Dublin; and Queen’s University, Belfast. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, German, and Italian, and have appeared in Ambit, Bad Lilies, Banshee, Cyphers, Gutter, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Jukebox, Poetry London, Rattle, The Irish Times, and elsewhere. Her criticism has appeared in Brixton Review of Books, Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, The Tribune, and Wasafiri. In 2018, she was selected for Poetry Ireland’s Introduction Series. She was the 2021 Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent. Her most recent book, The Yak Dilemma, is published by Makina Books, and a limited-edition pamphlet of Plague Poems, “Bitter Almonds,” is forthcoming with Salvage Press. She recently received a PEN Presents/SALT grant for a
translation project from the Punjabi