Ways of Walking
Highlights
Walking America – writers in conversation with Ann de Forest, Jonathon Stalls and Antonia Malchik
Walking America is a quarterly series of conversations that brings together American writers whose books share common themes. Ann de Forest, writer and editor of the anthology Ways of Walking(New Door Books, 2022), hosts and moderates the lively exchange with Antonia Malchik and Jonathon Stalls.
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Congratulating a Pair of Clever Clogs
The closing date has passed in our End of 2025 quiz – a fiendish one based almost entirely on topics raised during the year’s Walking Writers Salons. So who might be the Clever Clogs the highest number of correct answers? Appropriately we have a pair: Sandra Cowan and Rachel Sloan – who each will receive
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Where Walking Leads
Like most people on this planet, I have been walking my entire life. Having grown up in Los Angeles, I’ve also logged plenty of time in automobiles, but I’ve been in fortunate to live most of my adult life in a famously “walkable city,” Philadelphia, where my feet have become my preferred routine means of getting around, for both utility and pleasure.
• Walking America – writers in conversation with Ann de Forest, Christine Hulme, Nabil Kashyap and Willa Zhang
Walking America is a quarterly series of conversations that brings together American writers whose books share common themes. Introduced by Ann de Forest, Christine Hune, Nabil Kashyap and Willa Zhang will be in conversation.
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Walking America, with Neil King Jr and Tom Zoellner
Join two American authors as they trade tips and share insights about writing and walking at walk · listen · create’s Walking America. For our inaugural conversation on November 29, we are delighted to welcome authors Neil King Jr. and Tom Zoellner, to discuss their epic walks through America’s divided political landscapes in search of common ground.
• Walking Writers’ Circle – Walking Together
An “Invitation Only” event for shortlisted authors in the Walking Together writing ocmpetition with VIP guests. VIP guests confirmed include Amelia Hodsdon, our current writer-in-residence, and Ann de Forest, author, poet and editor of “Ways of Walking”.
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Deadline Midnight Monday
Our current writing competition on the theme of Walking A/way comes to a close at Midnight BST on Monday 14 August – you better be quick to get your submissions in – poems or stories of 250 words and under (excluding the title). Submit your work here: Walking A/way writing competition One of the competition
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24. Phil Smith, Mythogeography: A Guide to Walking Sideways, and “Crab Walking and Mythogeography”
In his essay “Walking Through Ruins,” part of the Ways of Walking anthology, cultural geographer Tim Edensor writes about the failure of linear narratives to adequately convey the experience of walking. “Stories that are fragmented, non-linear, impressionistic and contingent are better suited than traditional linear narratives to the experience of walking in ruins,” Edensor contends […]
22. Tim Ingold, “Culture on the Ground: The World Perceived Through the Feet”
Yesterday I started reading a collection of essays edited by Tim Ingold and Jo Lee Vergunst on walking, but I got sidetracked by a reference to this essay in that book’s introduction. Why not turn to that essay, I asked myself, before carrying on with the book? And so here I am, quickly writing a […]