Writing Workshop: Five Senses in Climate Fiction

If climate fiction is nature writing projected into the future, consider this:

How do your senses respond to the natural world today?

What have summer heatwaves, sudden winter storms, or, conversely, strangely mild winters, done to your senses?

Have your tastes changed?

Do clothes and fabrics feel different?

Are colors and sounds different, depending on the season?

We live in a time where the Earth’s climate is in dramatic flux. How does your sensory experience of the natural world respond to that state?

In this workshop, we’ll look at several different works of climate fiction and discuss what you notice about how the authors approach the five senses. You’ll also be provided with a selection of prompts to write a short work of your own, and anyone is welcome to share and discuss them afterwards.

All participants should bring a notebook and a pen/pencil, laptop/tablet for 20 minutes of writing time.

See you there!

More about Eleanor Keisman:

Eleanor is an American writer and poet living in Vienna, Austria. She holds a BA from The New School in New York and an MFA from Drexel University in Philadelphia. She’s a former EFL teacher, taught in Czechia, Poland, and China, and studied German and English linguistics at the University of Vienna. Her short stories, poetry, and essays have appeared in Litro Magazine, The Bangalore Review, Tough Crime, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, and The Wild Umbrella, as well as adapted for "The Other Stories" podcast. She writes a weekly Substack called Diary of a Reader and co-organizes an English-language writing group. Her novella, New Animal, won the 2025 Novella Award with Broken Tribe Press and was published in August 2025.

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