A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN IN STEM

12 October 2023



Ada Lovelace Week

On mountains and motherhood: an evening with author

Helen Mort

A ‘GLOBAL-TEES’ EVENT

A Line Above the Sky melds memoir and nature writing to ask why humans are drawn to danger, and how we can find freedom in pushing our limits. It is a visceral love letter to losing oneself in physicality, whether climbing a mountain or bringing a child into the world, and a celebration of womanhood in all its forms. Helen has always been drawn to the thrill and risk of climbing: the tension between human and rockface, and the climber's powerful connection to the elemental world. But when she becomes a mother for the first time, she finds herself re-examining her relationship with both the natural world and herself, as well as the way the world views women who aren't afraid to take risks. Helen's background is in poetry and fiction. This book, her first full-length work of non-fiction, took shape on two Chapelgarth writing retreats!
 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Helen Mort is a poet and novelist. Her collections Division Street, No Map Could Show Them and The Illustrated Woman are published by Chatto & Windus. She’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University.

2021 - Autumn - online event - free

Mini- launch of Kate Carruthers Thomas' GRAPHIC NOVELLA. A conversation with the two of our regular writing retreaters, the Author and PhD Sociology student (York University), Alice Wilson.

2020 - Due to the pandemic, the only event hosted was in March

               - March programme  below:

 2019   - The Inaugural GlobalTees Talk took place in September.

                Programme below: