Michaela Cavanagh

delighted to have joined @SeanMoncrieff on his show on ireland's newstalk yesterday to chat about my cargo ship story in the guardian from last week: newstalk.com/podcasts/highl…

On the show today: @bjacollins on the unity dividend for unionists; @HenryMcKean on dumping season; Rich people & gold toilets; How Ireland deports; @Toxicolly reviews The Death of Bunny Munro, Mormon Wives & Stranger Things S5; @mmcavanagh on sailing cargo ships..

Onboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship: is this the future of travel and transport? The Neoliner Origin set off on its inaugural two-week voyage from France to the US with the aim of revolutionising the notoriously dirty shipping industry. @mmcavanagh theguardian.com/environment/20…

for the @guardian, i spent two weeks aboard the groundbreaking neoliner origin (@NeolineOnline), the world's largest wind-powered cargo ship, on its inaugural transatlantic voyage. what an adventure — hurricane-force winds, dolphins and sea sickness ahoy!theguardian.com/environment/20…

Access Copyright Foundation, an arm’s length foundation of Access Copyright, is excited to announce the Canadian creators, publishers and organizations who have been awarded Professional Development Grants for 2025. acfoundation.ca/2025/08/06/acc…

dream life update 🚨☁️: i'm thrilled to share that i'm writing a book! i feel so lucky that PRESENT TENSE found a home with @TheNewPress and @McClellandBooks (@PenguinCanada). and all thanks to @s_haywood and the team at @TransLitAgency. coming to a bookstore near you spring '27!

This is one of my fave longreads and profiles in a long time. A trust master class by @mmcavanagh

"As the sun grazed the treetops against a cotton candy sky, I thought that if this was a doomsday survivalist’s paradise, it seemed more paradise than doomsday." @mmcavanagh @Hazlitt hazlitt.net/longreads/hide…

The Hideaway In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green prepares for the end of the world by @mmcavanagh via @Hazlitt hazlitt.net/longreads/hide…

Edition #50 features amazing longform reads from: @sarahjeong @missbarton @PAPPADEMAS @HyltonAnne @bborrell @susandominus @AmyDMarcus @alexcuadros @katejoymcqueen @zachsdorfman longformprofiles.substack.com/p/edition-50-l…

In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green is preparing for the end of the world. For @Hazlitt, @mmcavanagh spent a week with him to find out what exactly it looks like to try to escape climate collapse: hazlitt.net/longreads/hide…

a year later i’m still asking myself: how can we cope with uncertainty as we oscillate between doom and hope? i’m grateful to have had the chance to work it out for @hazlitt: hazlitt.net/longreads/hide… (and to @ameliaschonbek for the clear-eyed and thoughtful edits!)

at the Collapse Laboratory, ben gathered like-minded people who believed that climate collapse wasn’t just imminent, it was happening now — and that we needed to think deeply about how to show up for it. i was curious.

last summer i spent a week living in an old army barracks-turned-eco-bunker, deep in the east german forest. i was there for the Collapse Laboratory, a retreat that brought people together to think about how to prepare for the end of the world.

i'm working on a project that does exactly this. it's great to see this expressed so clearly and urgently, and i agree: we desperately need stories that explore the emotional landscape of the climate crisis to show us how to live right now.

Huge thanks to @AccessCopyright for the support — and the vote of confidence in my work.

If you have always wondered how to best turn your scholarly output into engaging stories for a broader audience, join us at our #writingstudio event with @mmcavanagh this afternoon! More information: carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_se… See you there! #rccevents

I'm so grateful for the support from @NIAgeing and excited to get to work on my project — about how extreme heat impacts older Canadians — for the @TorontoStar

i'm excited to spend the next two months as a visiting researcher at the @CarsonCenter at the LMU in munich 🌱 i'll be working on my @ukings MFA project about the emotional landscape of the climate crisis (and creating a local library power ranking, probably)