Elizabeth Reeder is an essayist and novelist whose last novel, An Archive of Happiness was longlisted for the Highland book prize, and Amanda Thomson is a visual artist and writer whose first book, A Scots Dictionary of Nature, was published in 2018 and has inspired wonderful interplay between language and landscape. Elizabeth and Amanda will talk about their own work and collaborations across forms and their own connections to place, language, movement, and share thoughts on the Phosphorescence weekend. They’ll talk about microbursts, a collection of essays on illness, care, creativity and grief where images and formatting create new relationships and understandings; and recent works that touch on nature, landscape, family and place, asking the question, what are the ways that we might write, show and encourage care, attention and attendance?