Producer, Summit Festival, 2024
Summit: A Poetry School Festival was a landmark ecopoetry, nature and climate writing festival. Its inaugural edition was held in collaboration with the University of Leeds Poetry Centre, the Laurel Prize, the National Poetry Centre and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, supported by Arts Council England, National Landscapes Association and Leeds City Council.
Editor, Magma 88: Underworld, 2024
Underworlds are duplicitous; they resist definition, classification, and simplification. This issue sought out emerging cultures, communities and modes of thought in search for a new ecopoetics centred on decomposition, transformation and dark biodiversity.
Elegy for 5th Anniversary of the Memorial for Okjökull glacier, 2024
In conjunction with the Global Glacier Casualty List launch, the ‘Unglacier Tour’ honoured the 5th anniversary of the Okjökull memorial, with a commission to write and perform an elegy at the summit of Ok mountain. Co-sponsored by Rice University,The Iceland Glaciological Society, The Icelandic Hiking Society, The University of Iceland and UNESCO in the lead-up to the United Nation’s declaration of 2025 as the “Official Year of Glaciers’ Preservation.”
Judge, Sony World Photography Awards, 2021
The Sony World Photography Awards – one of the world’s most prestigious photography competitions – spotlights artists telling the stories of our time. In 2021, the theme was ‘Building a Better Future’. Winning and shortlisted works documented a rapidly changing world, and a threatened biosphere, with a strong focus on communities seeking to protect native lands and traditional agricultural practices amidst rising temperatures.
Kate Elspeth Simpson 
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