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 Victorian industrial run-off. Deeply lyrical, these stories are full of non-human voices, queer characters and the relationships between them. These tale are by turns gentle and sinister, filled with hunger: for escape, for each other, for enchantment.
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Meet the authors who are writing about walking and the landscapes through which we walk, at Walking Writers Salons. We are delighted to welcome writer Sarah Royston for our November Salon, talking about her newly published novella length collection of short stories Fernseed: A Collection of Tales. Folk-singers harvest the music of the dead. A quarry-pit calls in