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Siobhan Campbell

Siobhan Campbell is an award-winning poet and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Open University specialising in poetics and social practice. Her recent poetry addresses our relationship with the non-human and explores the remit of the nature poem. Siobhan's poem 'Longboat at Portaferry', inspired by the flora and fauna of the Ards Peninsula, won the Listowel Irish Poem of the Year Award 2021. Poems appear in anthologies of eco-writing including 100 poems to save the planet (Seren Press) and Empty House: Poetry and Prose on the climate crisis (Doire Press). Siobhan collaborates with organisations and NGOs to research how creative writing practice can augment social engagement and activism.
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Sally O’Reilly

Sally O’Reilly is a journalist and writer. Her articles have been published by the Guardian, Evening Standard, Sunday Times and New Scientist, and her novels have been published by Penguin, Picador US and Myriad Editions. She is an Honorary Associate in Creative Writing at The Open University.
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Philip Seargeant

Philip Seargeant is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the Open University, where he teaches and researches language and communication.. He is the author, most recently, of The Art of Political Storytelling (Bloomsbury). He has written and edited a dozen academic monographs, textbooks and collections, and has won a number of awards for his short films on language and communication. He is a frequent contributor to publications such as Wired, The New European, Prospect, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post and The Independent.
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