Weight of Light
We are very pleased to be announcing the four writers selected for Weight of Light, our co-creative artist led project exploring how local communities might live and adapt in the near future.
These writers are curious about place, rooted in their local landscapes and open to imagining futures that feel credible and hopeful. Selected by our independent panel, these writers are...
Doina Cornell
Hector MacInnes
Nathan Sollé
Rhian Thomas
Find out more about these writers below.
Doina Cornell spent much of her life sailing the world before finally settling in Cam and Dursley in 2000. She’s a writer, community activist and former local politician, who led Stroud District Council through the covid pandemic, and having exited politics is now rediscovering her first love, writing.
Hector MacInnes works with sound across multiple disciplines including writing, installation and community practice. Originally from the Isle of Skye, he is curious about how sound articulates remoteness in rich and diverse ways, whether through topography, politics, economics or incarceration. Hector is a PhD researcher at CRiSAP and a community arts producer for GL4 in Matson, Glos.
Nathan Sollé (SollÉ) is a lyricist, producer and facilitator based in Gloucestershire, working at the intersection of music, spoken word and environmental practice. As creative director of Statesunder¡nspection — a collective label — his practice centres on the indent of identity: examining which of our thoughts, habits and fears belong to us.
Rhian Thomas grew up in North Wales and lives and writes in Stroud. She has been shortlisted for the New Welsh Review’s Borzello Prize and the Laurie Lee Prize, and was joint winner of the Gloucestershire Poetry Society Friendship Prize. Her work has appeared in Poetry Wales, the New Welsh Review, IS&T, the Alchemy Spoon and Gentian Journal.
We're very much looking forward to working together in the coming months - sign up to our newsletter to find out how the project progresses.
Weight of Light is funded by a nature and climate change grant from Stroud District Council, for which we're very grateful
