prose
Highlights
The Cartographer’s Confession
The Cartographer's Confession is a geo-located app that presents a fictional story set in London, unfolding as users walk through three specific city locations. It integrates voice, video, prose, archival 1940s photographs, illustrations, 3D soundscapes, and a custom musical score to deliver an immersive literary experience. The app supports pausing and resuming across multiple sessions and won the 2017 New Media Writing Prize.
Write About Walking In The Dark Showcase
Write About Walking In The Dark Showcase event introduces new writing from 11 shortlisted authors of the walk · listen · create annual writing competition and includes readings of their poetry and prose. Erin Bondo, Krista Carson, Paul Connolly, Elizabeth Fevyer, Eleanor Holmes, Sarah Leavesley/James, Rosaleen Lynch, Isabella Mead Husain, Laura Theis, Penny Walker, and Emily Wilkinson. We are delighted that author and poet Electra
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+10 Sound Walk Stories Sunday: ‘Write About Walking A/way’ showcase
Hosted by R M Francis the Write About Walking A/way showcase event introduces the shortlisted authors of the walk · listen · create / Sound Walk September writing competition, and includes readings of their poetry and prose. Run in conjuction with Sampson Low Publishers, the walk · listen · create writing competition attracted scores of
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Walking in Supermarkets
Annemarie Lopez visits her local supermarket and reflects on unheroic everyday walking. Early in Robert Altman’s film The Long Goodbye, Elliott Gould’s detective Marlowe goes to the supermarket at three in the morning to buy food for his cat. Under humming fluorescent light, he saunters, squinting at shelves stacked with tins, trying to find his
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Books
Walking pieces
Articles on WLC
WalkAbout Books
A series is born! After publishing Ann de Forest‘s collection of essays WAYS OF WALKING that drew worldwide interest, NEW DOOR BOOKS began to think about a series of books with walking as a theme. Then author Janice Deal sent them a wonderful novel, THE BLUE DOOR, in which the protagonist takes a long walk that
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Creative Walking
Arthur Sparrow wishes to make it clear, that this is an informal opinion piece not an academically peer-reviewed essay. I’m walking backwards for Christmas Across the Irish Sea I’m walking backwards for Christmas It’s the only thing for me I’ve tried walking sideways And walking to the front But people just look at me And
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Get ready to write about and celebrate urban trees
2023 marks a new partnership with the award-winning Urban Tree Festival as we will be administering the Festival’s writing competition, that launches with a free hour long online creative writing workshop on Sunday 4 December. The competition will be open for submissions of (flash) stories or poems of 250 words and under and will run until midnight on Monday 13 March 2023.
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Launch of “Orientation,” a chapbook featuring Alexandra’s prose on landscape
“Orientation” brings together five prose pieces that describe a radical alteration in the author’s perception as she explores the world on foot. Most of these pieces were previously connected to individual photographs or photographic projects.&nb...
Upcoming Exhibition in Brussels, Friday June 9 through Friday June 16
In the late summer of 2021, as an artist in resident at the Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain, I walked and photographed every day in the Jardins de l’Abbaye de la Cambre, Brussels. The photographs from those walks developed into two books, one of w...