Practitioners and teachers of writings on walking, the guest editors of Traversals: A Folio on Walking for The Hopkins Review, Anna Maria Hong and Christine Hume “wanted to reinvigorate walk literature as a forum not only for mental meandering but also as a form for talking about how we move through locales, rural and urban, while navigating the extremities of the 21st century.”
The editors actively sought contributions from women, BIPOC writers, queer writers, writers with disabilities, and trans and non-binary writers to counter, they write, “the tradition of the literary walk as meditative inquiry … mostly … practiced by cisgender men and straight, white writers without disabilities … .”
The result is a dynamic and edgy assembly of essays, stories, and poetry that confronts the fears, psychic dangers, and physical risks all too familiar to pedestrians without racial, gender, or economic privilege. As they enact walking’s pleasures and reclaim public space as their own, each writer reveals a capacity “to ignite new models of belonging and transience as they go.”
We are delighted that Christine Hume and contributors Nabil Kashyap (“Western Avenue”) and Willa Zhang (“Young, Asian, Female, Alone”) will be joining Ann de Forest in conversation for Walking America this February.
Walking America is a quarterly series of conversations that brings together American writers whose books share common themes. Ann de Forest, writer and editor of the anthology Ways of Walking (New Door Books, 2022), hosts and moderates the lively exchange, which touches on, among other topics, walking as a mode of research, walking as creative act, the challenges of writing about walking, as well as of walking to write. Audience questions and participation are encouraged!
| Video recording |
Related
Walking America hosted by Ann de Forest with Christine Hume, Nabil Kashyap, and Will Zhang
Ann de Forest hosts Walking America – writers in conversation. Practitioners and teachers of writings on walking, the guests include, Christine Hume, co-editor of Traversals: A Folio on Walking for The Hopkins Review, and two contributing writers, Nabil Kashyap and Will Zhang.
• 
+2 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
• The Thing to be Known Grows with the Knowing: Walking in the Western Ghats from Ignorance to Intimacy.
“The Thing to Be Known Grows with the Knowing” reflects on my experiences walking in the rich and fragile environment of India’s Western Ghats propelled by the question: What does it mean to be a guest, a good guest, in an unfamiliar place?
• Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul
When Indian journalist Taran Khan arrived in Kabul in 2006, she imagined it as a homecoming—a chance to reconnect with her Pashtun ancestors. So when she was told not to walk the streets, she heard an invitation. Working as a media trainer in the Afghan capital, Khan deliberately ignored the warnings that kept most foreigners
Steart is Gurt
We, the Bristol-based artist, filmmaker and producer, Simone Einfalt and the Bristol poet, writer and located audio designer Ralph Hoyte are delighted to be working with the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) on our ‘The Three Waters’ scoping study at Steart Marshes (Bridgwater Bay/Somerset/England) from early September 2025. We are hugely excited to be part
Walking Together writing winners announced: Sharing and Flower Key
This Saturday a Showcase of new writing on the theme of ‘Walking Together’ was entertainingly compered by Electra Rhodes, and included poems and stories that had been shortlisted in this year’s Write about Walking competition, read by their authors. The Showcase is the final step in the writing competition that began back in April, at
• 
• +2 
You must be logged in to post a comment.