Writing Workshop: Thrutopia with Kate Evans

Kate Evans is running a writing workshop at Whitby Library on Friday 20 November, starting at 3:00pm. It's part of Whitby Lit Fest 2026, which runs from Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 November, so there's plenty more to work your way through across the festival if you're in town for the weekend.

The session focuses on Thrutopia, an emerging genre within the Cli-Fi movement. While Cli-Fi is often associated with the darker side of climate fiction, Thrutopia turns the lens toward imagining more sustainable futures. Rather than just talking about it, the workshop works its way through that world using facilitated writing exercises, so you'll be putting pen to paper throughout.

Evans is a published author whose recent work includes a trilogy of crime novels — A Wake of Crows, Drowning Not Waving and No Justice — alongside non-fiction and poetry. She's run creative writing workshops and courses in the community and at literature festivals, and was a tutor for Hull University's BA in Creative Writing, so she's used to guiding people through the process rather than just talking at them.

It's a late afternoon slot on a Friday, and the library is on Windsor Terrace in Whitby, YO21 1EY. Entry is £7.00.