Hello! I’m Alex Stockham, a writer trying to find stories in the air.
This website, the weather diary, is a place for me to create permanence for some of the things I’ve been working on. A foundation for building confidence to share my writing. It contains some journals and unstructured verse, alongside longer-form essays and ruminations.
All of this is about trying to find ways of bringing the weather and atmosphere to life, revealing the shapes of air through character and narrative, and finding beyond-human perspectives on the climate transition.
I was recently shortlisted for the 2026 Common Ground nature writing prize, with my work being awared highly acclaimed.
I previously worked on a documentary and research project about the weather in Sheffield, and why it tends to get better weather than Manchester and the Pennines.
If you have any thoughts on my work, I’d love to hear them.
You can also find me on Substack and Instagram with the prospect of hearing more from me in the future.
