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

“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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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,

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