Ken Wilson’s singular experience of walking alongside the decidedly pedestrian-unfriendly Regina Bypass, all while situating the highway within the ongoing history of settler colonialism in southern Saskatchewan, Canada. In conversation with Andrew Stuck, they discuss his new book Walking the Bypass – notes on place from the side of the road.

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 is a pilgrimage in search of meaning — an exploration of art, culture, community and the enduring power of nature along the world’s

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 Manchester and elsewhere, as she

Video recording of a conversation between Julian Hoffman, author of Lifelines – searching for home in the mountains of Greece, and Annemarie Lopez. When Julian 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

Video recording of a Walking Writers Salon with Adam Weymouth, author of Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe. 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

A Walking Writers Salon with Radhika Subramaniam 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

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

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? Chantal Lyons author of Groundbreakers: the return of Britain’s Wild Boar and our story writer-in-residence as she hosts Emma Geen, author

A Walking Writers Salon with  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

Video recording of the sixth instalment in Walking America for a conversation about dogs and the humans who walk with them – and write about them. Does walking with a dog enhance the experience of walking? If so, in what way? For poet Susan M. Schultz and walking artist and writer Ernesto Pujol, walking with

Wayfarer is part memoir, part travel narrative, part nature book, which begins while Phoebe Smith was sent on assignment to walk the most famous pilgrimage in the world – the Camino de Santiago, in northern Spain – and somehow lost her way. Where most people ended with a sense of joy an achievement, Phoebe was left empty and

Alan Cleaver, a former journalist and more recently a walking guide book author has a long-held fascination in handwritten letters and how they have been delivered. The Postal Paths, his new book coming in April 2025, celebrates and honours the endeavour of the rural postal delivery service.

Video recording of a Walking Writers Salon with Tim Parks: How do master storytellers approach the act of walking in their writing? What are the subtle yet important differences between crafting a non-fiction travelogue and weaving walking into a fictional narrative? This Walking Writers Salon delves into these questions. Our featured guest, Tim Parks, a

A discussion between art critic and historian Lori Waxman, and WLC co-founder Babak Fakhamzadeh about Lori's book Keep Walking Intently, a seminal history of walking art in the Twentieth century.

What can the planet’s past tell us about the future? How do we relate to nature when our bodies try to keep us from it? And how do you write about creatures that don’t wish to be found?   Join Wainwright Prize-nominated authors Sophie Yeo, Polly Atkin, and Chantal Lyons – host of this Salon and walk · listen · create’s Writer-in-Residence – as they explore the

Video recording of a Walking Writers’ Salon with Sarah Royston, author of Fernseed: A Collection of Tales, in which she gives us a very good definition for queer ecology! Fernseed: A Collection of Tales  takes a speculative dive into history and the English landscape, from ancient standing stones to crackling pylons, deep holy wells and

Author Duncan Minshull is the guest in a Walking Writers Salon, talking about his approach to editing and compiling his latest anthology Globetrotting: Writers Walk the World.  In his new book, Duncan Minshull, the UK’s ‘laureate of walking’, brings together the recorded footfalls of over fifty walker-writers who have travelled somewhere across the world’s seven continents. They walk

Video recording of a Walking Writers Salon with Kathryn Tann, author of ‘Seaglass’ her debut collection of essays – art memoire, part nature writing. On a windswept stretch of the Durham coastline, there’s treasure to be found: jewels of shining sea glass, swept in by the tide after years at sea. Gathered together in a

Author Oliver Smith is a guest on a Walking Writers’ Salon introduced by Andrew Stuck. Oliver talks about On This Holy Island (Bloomsbury Continuum 2024), about making a series of epic adventures across sacred British landscapes – climbing into remote sea caves, sleeping inside Neolithic tombs, scaling forgotten holy mountains and once marooning himself at

Video recording of a Way maker Salon in which Cheryl Markosky talks to Dr Kerri Andrews

Finding a Place - creative critical wanderings in landscape with guest Dr Anna Burton and hosts Shani Cadwallender, Poet-in-Residence and Amelia Hodsdon, Writer-in-Residence for walk · listen · create.

Video recording of a Walking Writers' Salon in which Jack Cornish, Head of Paths at Ramblers GB talks about The Lost Paths. It is Jack’s personal journey and exploration of the deep history of English and Welsh footways.

We start the new year in the company of acclaimed walking artist, Phil Smith discussing his collection of poetry “The Common“.

We discuss with Brian Lewis a range of topics including the role of affordable, accessible technologies, the development of the Longbarrow Press, the economics of small press publishing, the relationship between a walking practice and writing practice, and the ethos of craft, collaboration and care that runs through it all.