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Paperboats is a collective of writers focussed on nature and environment in a time of climate and ecological breakdown. We are Scotland based and global in outlook, and write to affirm the astonishing life of this planet, and how its future may yet be shaped.

THE PAPERBOATS ZINE

Issue Six: Nature’s Voice. Featuring poetry and prose from Madhu Raghavendra, Ewen Glass, Jeff Skinner, Mandy Macdonald, Olga Bloeman, Martyn Halsall, LJ Furner, Sam Pyrah, Jessica Boatright, Saskia McCracken, Orla Beaton, McLord Selasi, Anne Eyries, Gordon Meade, Leonie Charlton, Susan Richardson, Sambhu Ramachandran & Sharon Black.

What follows is testament to the many different ways Nature can speak to us. In poetry and prose, a diverse range of writers bear witness to the vulnerability of birds and other animals; the human impacts on climate and environment; hear the imagined song of trees; give voice to glaciers and storms, mosses and lichen.

ENERGY STORIES COMPETITION

£250 prize for the winning entry
CLOSING DATE: Midnight Wednesday 15th April 2026.

Poetry or prose, fiction or nonfiction, past present or future, tell us your energy story.

THE PAPERBOATS PODCAST

In each episode writer and researcher Ian Grosz talks with a different writer from the Paperboats collective – a group of writers working across Scotland and beyond to highlight the impacts of climate change, the ecological collapse we are witness to, and the things we can do to bring about positive change.