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Highlights
Haiku Encounter
Can poetry inspire people to discover their city on foot? We think it can and want to make that happen – here in London and elsewhere in the world. With your help, we shall. 80,000 restIn Paddington Street GardensAs I walk to work We are looking for your help in making this happen – we
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2026 Winner | Sherborne Prize for Travel Writing
The 2026 winner of the Sherborne Prize for Travel Writing was Lone Wolf by Adam Weymouth (Hutchinson Heinemann), who received the £10,000 prize at an award ceremony at the Sherborne Travel Writing Festival in April 2026. Any full-length, non-fiction (including creative non-fiction) travel book written by a British or European national and published in English for the
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Poetry Pilgrims
We are delighted to announce the winner and runner-up in the first chapter of our year-long On Pilgrimage poetry competition. Each quarter beginning in February this year, we have a new theme and new volunteer judges, and our first quarter theme of Solvitur Ambulando was chosen by judge Electra Rhodes. She was joined in the
• (Tree inspired) Hidden Garden haiku walkshop – SE1
Celebrating trees as part of the Urban Tree Festival, a 90 minute walkshop (workshop on foot) in which you discover all of Britain’s native trees, all within one park, and visit London’s most iconic peace garden. Together we will compose and recite haiku – 3 lined short poem usually associated with Japanese culture. Novice or expert,
• Between the Lines
Andrew Stuck has a fascination with writers who draw from place. It is probably something to do with the fact that as walkers, we are out carving our way through space and experiencing places, one step at a time. Andrew doesn’t count himself as a great writer so really appreciates those who can write a
• Books
Walking pieces
‘Walk Upon our Sweet and Blessed Land!’ : Exploring Walking, Complex Embodiment and Shared Space
Abstract: Building upon the disciplines of Truman, Shannon, and Springgay, this work discusses the complexities of inhabiting a crip, queer, black, or otherwise “othered” body while interacting with natural spaces and shared public spaces. The work would be categorized as a sound essay presented as a binaural, somewhat immersive soundwalk in an attempt to underscore
Museum of Stories: Bury Park
Museum of Stories: Bury Park is a geolocative app featuring twelve audio dramas based on real experiences from the Bury Park district of Luton, UK, each linked to its actual location. The stories span from the 19th century to the present, reflecting diverse community histories including local cinema, Jewish life, political activism, and contemporary migration.
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Beach combing for writers
With a contribution from Martyn Howe offering e-book copies of his new book, The Coast is Our Compass, in which he describes a personal pilgrimage to walk the coast of England along what is now officially the King Charles III National Coastal Path, as a monthly prize, our Shorelines project has had a new lift.
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2026 Festival_Programme Page – T100
T100’s 12th Annual Festival Seeing Thurrock Differently:A Journey Home 23 May – 7 June 2026 From heritage walks to graffiti workshops, poetry in dye gardens to citizen science at dusk, playful performances to a joyful festival finale in Tilbury, this year’s programme brings Thurrock into motion – connecting where we’ve come from with where we
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Women walking in sisterly solidarity
A despatch from our story-writer-in-residence Penny Walker. 30th April Golders Green station to Highfield Avenue, and back 1.5 miles I am by myself among strangers who are friends: women walking together in sisterly solidarity. We meet just before six, outside Golders Green station, on the small semi circle of grass where the buses turn. At
Taking the right PATH
Our current poet-in-residence, Elizabeth Fevyer takes her kids to Toronto and wonders where everyone is. We arrive in Toronto one evening at the start of February half-term, as swathes of North America are recovering from some of the heaviest snowstorms in decades. We’ve barely left the airport taxi rank before one of my sons points
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Buckthorn Ink 2-Part Workshop
Join me! Free, all levels welcome (recommended ages 10+), no experience required. Meet at the bench on the southeastern shore of Grass Lake Wetland, Minneapolis. Session 1: Buckthorn Berry Collection & Ink-Making Instruction Saturday, September 12, 2026 at 3-4pm Session 2: Buckthorn Inkscapes Saturday, September 19, 2026 at 10-11am Free to join for one or […]
A Charity Readathon
Hello. At 17:00 today I am reading some of my walking poetry (for 15 minutes) as part of a 24hr charity Readathon at Jesmond Library. Donations are split 50:50 between the library and the National Literacy Trust (https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/readathon?utm_medium=CA&utm_source=CL). The whole … Continue reading →
• 30. Sarah Tolmie, All the Horses of Iceland
I’m not sure how All the Wild Horses of Iceland came into my possession—I suspect my friend Tanis MacDonald sent it to me in trade for some books about walking, because there’s a postcard from her tucked inside—but I’m glad it did, and that I read it near the end of my trip to England, … Continue reading 30. Sarah Tolmie, All the Horses of Iceland →
• So Long and thanks for all the ghosts and hobbits: Robert ‘Bob’ Gilbert 6th October 1942 – 7th June 2026.
The Dad-Map is, of course, never really settled: borders and landmarks can shift and change. Well-trodden paths can suddenly, unexpectedly, develop surprising new forks and turns. However you choose to navigate this terrain, there will always be someon...
Events
Footnotes with Peter Fiennes
Three online events from June and July 2020, in which author Peter Fiennes draws you into the world of famous writers who explored English city and countryside: A Footnote to Charles Dickens No author is as inextricably linked with London as Charles Dickens. The city and the times he lived through fed his imagination, and in
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