Flame-Dried Figs

Catherine Yiğit – Irish writer living in Turkey

Scorched leaves and flame-dried figs on a fig tree with a light blue sky behind

The Interface of Climate, Landscape and People

  • The Climate-Conscious Writers Handbook

    The Climate-Conscious Writers Handbook

    By Wren James and the Climate Fiction Writers League with support from Climate Spring This is actually a journal, so it will be a perfect fit if you’re someone who likes to make notes, scribble and doodle. If you want tips about how to include anything related to climate in your writing, this is packed…

  • Pocket Forests and Visualisation

    The last IWC Climate Writing Session hosted by Alice Kinsella at the end of November turned out to be a cracker. The first guest was Catherine Cleary, a former journalist who now runs Pocket Forests Ireland. They help people develop forests on tiny pieces of land, in company gardens and communal green spaces. Their work…

  • Raising Consciousness

    Raising Consciousness

    In the process of planning my next novel, I have been searching about climate change and our connection to the planet.   Using the keywords “climate conscious,” I found my way to the Climate Consciousness Summit. It was starting very soon, running during the COP 30 summit in Belém in Brazil. I spent a week…

  • Focus

    Focus

    Deadlines work for me, excellently, impeccably. But what about when there is no deadline? When there is no outside push to do the work. A lot of time-wasting is what happens. I can’t call it procrastination because that’s done when there is a goal that is being avoided. This involves a complete blank on all…

  • Make It Till You Make It

    I heard Debbie Millman say this on the Mel Robbins podcast. It was almost a throwaway comment at the end of the podcast but it really resonated with me. Make it till you make it. It’s all you can really do.

  • Clementine Crane Prefers Not To

    Clementine Crane Prefers Not To

    Book Review Kristin Bair Alcove Press 2025 This is a book about a woman in her forties who experiences her first hot flash and is radicalized by it. Rather than continue stuffing all of the appointments and responsibilities for her three children and husband into her bursting chest cavity, she goes on strike. It’s an…

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An ancient aqueduct spans a gorge
Wooden replica of the Wooden Horse of Troy at the entrance to the archaeological site; the head of the wooden horse is silhouetted against a pale blue sky.
A grove of oak trees on dry grass
A restored aqueduct viewed from the top of the gorge

This is how it all started…

Catherine Yiğit is a writer living near the ancient city of Troy in northwestern Turkey. She arrived in Turkey from Ireland on a roundabout route which circumnavigated the globe. Arriving without a word of the language, she began writing as a way to freely express herself and explore her new life.

She was fortunate to contribute to two anthologies written by foreign women with connections to Turkey. Overcoming her language difficulties, Catherine has worked as a translator and editor for academic papers for the last decade.

She is currently editing a near-future science fiction novel set in Western Turkey and writing her work-in-progress.

A woman with short brown hair and glasses stands in front of stacked logs

Catherine Yiğit

Writer, Translator & Editor