Warwick Writing Programme is organising a summer school to take place in our new space in Venice, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin. The summer school has a working title Venice: Staying Above the Water and is focused on eco-writing. It is concentrated on two conflicting processes currently unfolding in the city: on the one side is the ever-expanding tourism industry which has already produced devastating effects not only on the physical aspects of the city but—more importantly—on its social structure. Currently, Venice officially has 49,999 registered inhabitants, and this number is in constant decline (in 2020 the number stood at 55,000), while the number of Airbnb rental units is at 7,000 and growing. On the other side is the Sisyphean fight for the re-population of the historical core, for its schools, markets and communal events, without which the city will have no future. This is a perfect metaphor for the ecological situation in the world, making the project interesting not only to students of Creative Writing, but to all who are directly or indirectly engaged in the fight for a sustainable future.