Welcome!
Dear family, friends and kind people I haven't met yet, thank you for being here! For those of you who don't know me, my name is Celeste and I'm raising funds so I can accept my place on a special Creative Writing MA course at the University of East Anglia.
During this MA, I will collaborate with inspiring people and places that provide genuine hope for the future. As a result of these collaborations, I'll be able to create a series of positive, hopeful stories which are based in real life solutions and possibilities; stories that imagine what a healthier and more sustainable world could look like in the future.
To learn more about those people and places that have inspired and influenced the stories and music I create, please visit my website: www.celestelovick.com/inspirations
What Do I Love?
I love being a parent and home educating my son. I love nature. I love collaborating with others to create amazing things. I love music and stories that come from the heart.
I've recently completed a novel called 'The Bee Whisperer', which was a finalist in the Green Stories Novel Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Page Turner Writing Award 2024. It imagines what Norfolk, England could look like in 2062, with a society built on values of equality and compassion and roads that have been repurposed for cycleways, habitat corridors and community gardens. It follows four characters through transformational journeys of self-discovery as they reconnect with other human beings and the natural world. (To read a pre-publication version of this novel, see the rewards).
Why now?
It's all happened very quickly! Just when I was feeling ready for a new direction, I discovered this Creative Writing MA course, which was only created a few weeks ago. Shortly after that I applied, and three days later I received my offer. The course begins in January 2025 and so I have just over a month to raise enough donations to cover the shortfall in my tuition fees and expenses.
I'd be so grateful for any donations you feel able to make, and in return I would like to offer you some rewards that include a 12 month creative writing experience with me (which will run concurrently with the Creative Writing MA, and where I will share favourite exercises, techniques and insights gleaned from the course). You can also have a song or story written for you, receive a personal live concert, digital albums, a hand-drawn art card or read a pre-publication copy of my new novel.
As well as strengthening my practice as a writer and deepening my journey as a person, this MA will also give me the skills and confidence to teach, helping me to empower others to create their own hopeful stories.
My video explains more about why this course is important to me and why stories can be a powerful force for positive change.
Thanks for reading! If you feel able to support this campaign I’d be so grateful and would welcome your company on this learning journey.
With best wishes,
Celeste