Announcing five writers selected for CO2RE Arts podcast

Mar 12, 2026

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How can science fiction help us to imagine the future of greenhouse gas removal? In a new five-part podcast series, five storytellers will consider what life might look like in the late 21st century and how the choices we make today influence the future. “Pathways: A Possible Futures Podcast” will explore the ethical dilemmas, power dynamics and societal inequalities that shape the use of climate change mitigation technologies, including greenhouse gas removal techniques. The series is conceived, produced and edited by CO2RE Artist Ben Weaver-Hincks.

Read on to meet the five selected storytellers.

Eley Williams

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Eley Williams’ short fiction appears in anthologies including The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story, Pilot Press’ Modern Queer Poets, and Liberating the Canon edited by Isabel Waidner. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her debut collection, Attrib. and Other Stories, won the James Tait Back Memorial Prize for fiction; her novel The Liar’s Dictionary won a 2021 Betty Trask Award. A second collection of short stories, Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good, features work shortlisted for the National Short Story Award and broadcast on BBC Radio. (Photo copyright Alice Zoo.)

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Amadeus Redha

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Amadeus Redha is an Iraqi-born writer based in London. A BAFTA Rocliffe and BBC Writersroom finalist, he creates hopeful dramas and comedies rooted in representation. His work includes two award-winning short films and a feature film script, and he recently marked his radio debut as the lead writer of episode 8 for “The Wandsworth Way”, a soap opera and drama series run by Theatre503 and Riverside Radio.

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Kerry Ryan

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Kerry Ryan has won the Hachette and David Higham Prize, the Spilling Ink Short Story Prize, the New Writing South Award and has been shortlisted for the Myriad First Editions Prize, the Writers & Artists Prize and the HG Wells Prize. Her writing has been published by The Manchester Review, The Kenyon Review, 3am Magazine, Comma Press and more. Kerry has held multiple writer residencies and created site-specific work with artists, scientists and communities across the UK. She is the founder of Write like a Grrrl, a global writing community, and holds a PhD in Creative Writing/Literary Studies.

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Phoebe Yemi Ara

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Phoebe Yemi Ara is a WFTV Kay Mellor Emerging Writer (2024), London Library Emerging Writer (2021/22), Babes in Development x Bloomsbury Emerging Writer (2024), Pan Macmillan Writer on The Rise (2024), and HarperCollins Author Alumna (2021) of screenplays and speculative fiction. Her work has been longlisted for the Hodderscape Mo Siewcharran prize for fantasy (2024), the Penguin WriteNow prize (2024), and selected for the Future Worlds Prize (2025). She works within film/TV/animation production and script development.

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Stefano Cisternino

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Stefano Cisternino is an environmental journalist, science communicator and researcher specialising in climate disinformation. He directs the Italian Observatory on Climate Misinformation at The New Global Order and hosts the “FAQ the Climate” podcast. He also writes for The European Correspondent, DeSmog, and Domani. He previously served as Scientific Communicator at the European Commission across three Directorates General and as Communications Expert at ICLEI European Secretariat, where he coordinated EU-funded projects and city networks across Europe. His research focuses on how institutional contradictions in climate policy create structural vulnerabilities to disinformation. He is a Climate Pact Ambassador and Climate Reality Leader.

We look forward to listening to the series the writers and Ben create together.

“Pathways: A Possible Futures Podcast” is one of seven arts projects supported by CO2RE to engage with greenhouse gas removal. Find out more about the projects here.

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Announcing five writers selected for CO2RE Arts podcast

Eley Williams

Amadeus Redha

Kerry Ryan

Phoebe Yemi Ara

Stefano Cisternino

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