Cal Flyn: Islands of Abandonment

SUNDAY 19 SEPTEMBER

Cal Flyn: Islands of Abandonment

What happens to those places that human beings pollute, destroy or just leave behind? In Islands of Abandonment, Cal Flyn visits such places around the world, and discovers stories not only of damage, but of repair and hope. Chaired by Gavin Francis.

Cal Flyn

Cal Flyn is an award-winning writer from the Highlands of Scotland. She writes literary nonfiction and long-form journalism. Her first book, Thicker Than Water, explored questions of colonialism and intergenerational guilt, and was a Times book of the year. Her second book, Islands of Abandonment — about the ecology and psychology of abandoned places — is out now. Cal’s journalistic writing has been published in Granta, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and others. She is a columnist for Prospect, deputy editor of literary recommendations site Five Books, and a regular contributor to The Guardian. Cal has been writer-in-residence at Gladstone’s Library and the Jan Michalski Foundation in Switzerland. She was made a MacDowell fellow in 2019.

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