Walking Writers Salon
‘Walking Writers’ Salon’
You may be joining a Salon hosted by Andrew Stuck, Annemarie Lopez or a host selected from our contributor community, that last 60 minutes and includes a guest author talking about their approach to writing. Guests may be published authors and poets talking about their most recent books. Usually there’s a fun multiple-choice quiz or literary challenge as part of the programme.
Online meetings are hosted through Zoom, Teams, Jitsi or similar, and video recorded, published on Youtube, and held in our video archive. Participants will be sent the conference link and password shortly before the event kicks off. To cover expenses and provide a small gift for the expert, participation typically costs less than 10 euros.
Highlights
Because the streets belong to everyone
Morag Rose, author of the widely acclaimed The Feminist Art of Walking will be joined in conversation with author and poet Polly Atkin for our first Walking Writers Salon on 2026. For over 20 years Morag Rose has been seeking company, undertaking a wide range of explorative wanders on foot through her home city of
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• Walking Writers of Prespa: a showcase of writing about walking from around the world
Join us in celebrating the first anniversary of the Walking Writers of Prespa. We are a collective of walking artists and writers who first gathered at a long table under the linden trees of Psarades during the 2025 Walking Arts Encounter. Ann de Forest, a longtime writer and relative newcomer to walking art, initiated the gathering, envisioning an
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Meet Morag, author of The Feminist Art of Walking
Here’s an invitation that we know you won’t be able to refuse: Morag Rose offers a huge thank you to everyone who has helped make The Feminist Art of Walking. Tickets are now available for all dates on her book publicity tour – your chance to meet Morag in person*: Juno Books, Sheffield Saturday 18th
• Meandering through the landscape
We are excited to have award-winning naturalist and author Stephen Rutt as our Walking Writers Salon guest in June. Too long have we taken water for granted – it is a crucial element that keeps our world alive, without it there is no life. Following the path of a raindrop to the sea, from the
• On the road to nowhere
“As I plod north in the wind, I seem to be making no headway. It’s as if I’m walking on a treadmill: my body is moving but I’m going nowhere….. One minute I seem to be immobile; the next I realise that in immobility was an illusion, that I was getting somewhere, slowly, all the
• • Walking the blue and the green
We welcome back Martyn Howe as a Walking Writers Salon guest to celebrate his new book The Coast is Our Compass. Why are we drawn to a place where the land meets the sea? And what deeper truths emerge when these instincts come together in a journey around England’s shoreline? The Coast is Our Compass
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Radhika Subramaniam is Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design/The New School in New York City where she was also the first Director/Chief Curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center from 2009 to 2017. With an interdisciplinary practice as curator and writer, she explores crises and surprises as they emerge in urban life, walking, art and
• • Walking towards a home in Greece
When author Julian Hoffman first arrived in Greece’s remote Prespa region, his Greek was “almost non-existent.” Walking became a form of literacy for him—a way to learn the language of the land by tracing the steps of others, reading stone walls, abandoned houses, plant communities, and animal tracks. “Walking was a way in,” he says,
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Beneath the Dreaming Spires
Five years in the making, A Certain Logic of Expectations is a surprising, intriguing photo narrative of a well-known university-dominated city, created by Mexican photographer Arturo Soto. Soto studied at Oxford as a doctoral student, traversing the city incognito, capturing the quirkiness of British suburbia, a counter-narrative to the tourism blurbs that often quote Victorian
• • Walking America – writers in conversation with Ann de Forest, Ernesto Pujol and Susan M Schultz
Does walking with a dog enhance the experience of walking? If so, in what way? For poet Susan M. Schultz and walking artist and writer Ernesto Pujol, walking with dogs offers a means to meander, to shift perspective, and to marvel again and again at the oddity of the humans they encounter, sometimes affable, sometimes confrontational.
• A 100 day Walk across Europe with a Wolf for company
Conservation policies across Europe have been encouraging ‘re-wilding’ of landscapes, including the re-introduction for animals that once roamed more freely. Scientists have been tracking such re-introductions, and back in 2011, a wolf left its family pack in Slovenia, crossed the Alps and journeyed across Europe for thousands of kilometres. Critically-acclaimed and celebrated travel writer Adam
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Events
It’s a dog’s life
Join Damaris West, our poet-in-residence and Ann de Forest, host of Walking America in an evening of sharing favourite poems about dogs and walking with them. Have you a favourite doggy poem that you would like to share? Whether commanded by a whistle or tied to a leash, carried in a bag or let loose
• • Words to Light the Dark: Writing the worlds of other animals
How do we bridge the experiential gap between that of humans and other animals with writing that feels intelligible to us, while reaching for the differences in how other animals sense, think, and act? Join Chantal Lyons author of Groundbreakers: the return of Britain’s Wild Boar and our story writer-in-residence as she hosts Emma Geen,
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• Walking creatively through storytelling with Krista Carson
Our featured guest, Krista Carson (writer, poet, educator, and PhD student), offers insights from her practice-based doctoral work where she is exploring the relationship between walking and creativity. Her book-in-progress weaves together prose and poetry framed by walks she has taken (often literal, sometimes figurative). She ponders uncertainty, transformation, and becoming as she moves toward
• • Wayfaring with a Wandering Woman
Wayfarer is part memoir, part travel narrative, part nature book, which begins while Phoebe Smith was sent on assignment to walk the most famous pilgrimage in the world – the Camino de Santiago, in northern Spain – and somehow lost her way. Where most people ended with a sense of joy an achievement, Phoebe was
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