Philip Webb Gregg

I am a writer of ephemeral things for beautiful places. Most of my work revolves around the disconnect between human nature and nature nature, but I also grapple with themes of faith, folklore and narratology.

I edit and write for Dark Mountain Project and also work freelance as a contributor, copywriter and general creative for many beautiful and bizarre places all over the internet.

I was born in the high mountains of southern Spain and now have my home in the civilised flatlands of Cambridge. I live somewhere in-between.

Philip is one of the members featuring their work as part of the ClimateCultures Quarantine Connection series. We shared his short story What We Find in the Guts of the Bodies that the River Gives Us on Day 2 of the 40-day series to mark the first UK lockdown of the Covid-19 global pandemic.

Philip's ClimateCultures posts

The End of the World? Let’s Be Honest

12th September 2022

Writer Philip Webb Gregg embraces our Environmental Keywords theme on Transitions with an urgent call to abandon our language of endings for one of beginnings, where we embrace the deepest change: a radical transition to more honest stories. Read More

Rewilding — Slantways

29th June 2020

Writer Philip Webb Gregg shares a new poem exploring rewilding as a sideways step into a stranger world, resisting simplifications of 'progress' and the gains and losses of our current model, even as we seek to change it. Read More

A Personal History of the Anthropocene – Three Objects #12

27th April 2020

Writer Philip Webb Gregg explores being human in the Anthropocene, using three objects that offer to carry, fuel or guide our search for experience and meaning, but whose less subtle qualities have great power to lead us astray. Read More

When Our Roar Was Birdsong

29th July 2019

Writer Philip Webb Gregg went looking for ways to let nature get to him, and found them on a bushcraft and survival course, with Extinction Rebellion on the streets of London, and in his garden in the city. Read More