You’d think those Romantic poet dudes held a monopoly on walking and experiencing a ‘spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’. Good for them.
But women have also walked and written about walking for a very long time, thank you very much.
This interactive, one-hour workshop offers fascinating facts about women authors who loved walking, along with real live writing prompts based on our chosen walking women’s lives and works.
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In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy’s legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led 4,000 of his men hundreds of miles through Umbria and Tuscany, then across the Apennines, Italy’s mountainous spine, toward the refuge of the Venetian Republic. After thirty-two exhausting days of skirmishes and adventures, only 250 survivors reached the Adriatic coast.
Walking creatively through storytelling with Krista Carson
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
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• Every path tells a story – a Walking Writers’ Salon with Alan Cleaver
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.
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