The event will feature readings from the authors’ latest works, followed by a conversation exploring how contemporary writers respond to climate anxiety, shifting landscapes, and questions of identity and belonging through fiction and poetry.
Bourbeau is an award-winning poet and fiction writer whose work has appeared in publications including The Irish Times, The Kenyon Review, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. Her writing is held in the Special Collections archive at the James Joyce Library at University College Dublin. Her latest poetry collection, Monarch, explores overlooked histories of the American West.
Alongside her literary work, Bourbeau is an Associate Artist with the French think tank Pro(to)topia and has collaborated with several United Nations agencies, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia. She is currently developing a new poetry collection and an interactive mapping project focused on protected lands in the western United States.
Hudson is a Maltese author, journalist, editor, and lecturer in creative writing. He received Malta’s National Journalism Prize in 2018 for investigative reporting and served as a National Book Prize adjudicator in 2020. His fiction has received international recognition, winning awards in both the United Kingdom and the United States, while his work has also been featured by NPR and the Chicago Review of Books. In 2024, he published his debut novel, M.
Bourbeau is currently undertaking an artist residency at Gozo Contemporary, hosted by the Norbert Francis Attard Foundation. Established in 2001, the residency programme introduces artists and creative practitioners to Gozo as a source of inspiration within a Mediterranean context, encouraging intercultural exchange, collaboration, and professional development through residencies ranging from two weeks to three months.
New Words for a Changing World aims to offer audiences an opportunity to engage with urgent environmental themes through literature and dialogue, highlighting the ways storytelling can shape conversations around the future of communities, landscapes, and collective memory.
