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Stephen Rutt
post Curated news New 13 Jul, 2026

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

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS19 2019

Creative Writing Walkshop

The creative writing walkshop is a 40-minute outdoor workshop featuring timed exercises to inspire creative writing while walking. Participants follow no set route and use prompts to develop notes and ideas for flash fiction or creative non-fiction.

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Writing Walking

Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, University of London
2023-03-09 17:30
Laurie Grove, London, UK

Launch of the booklet ‘Writing Walking: One day in Spring during global pandemic’ an edited collection from the Centre for Urban and Community Research ‘What happens when nothing happens on a day in late Spring during a global pandemic? And, how might writing walking sociologically help us to make sense of it?’ Join us to

post Featured 28 Apr, 2024

Distant places, different memories

Writing competition shortlist announced.

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The Trouble with Maps…

‘A map can tell me how to find a place I have not seen, but have often imagined. When I get there, following the map faithfully, the place is not the place of my imagination. Maps, growing ever more real, are much less true.’ Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry A map constitutes relationships and connections, […]

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Beginnings, Middles & Endings

Q: You walk out of your door. You do not know how far you will go, how long it will take, if or when, you will return?… Read more "Beginnings, Middles & Endings"

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Hefted

by Josie Melia If I’d been a sheep in the North, I could have been hefted. Traditionally, ewes heft their lambs from an early age, teaching them… Read more "Hefted"

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Protocol 5 – The View from the Map

    Baudrillard famously said ‘hence, the map precedes the territory,’ suggesting maps can conceptualise terrains and construct solid topologies, without needing to set a foot on… Read more "Protocol 5 – The View from the Map"

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oversupinate

People who jog, run, and sprint have their share of problems that slow-moving people can barely comprehend. One is oversupination. As the OED defines it, to oversupinate is “To run or walk so that the weight falls upon the outer sides of the feet to a greater extent than is necessary, desirable, etc.” A 1990 Runner’s World article gets to the crux of the problem: “It’s hard to ascertain exactly what percentage of the running population oversupinates, but it’s a fraction of the people who think they do.” Credits to Mark Peters.

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