Our featured guest, 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 toward embracing a creative life. In this Walking Writers Salon, Krista will share how walking can be used in three distinct and useful ways—as subject, method, and structure—in storytelling. 

Krista is currently completing her doctoral dissertation, Footnotes: A Practice-Based Exploration into Walking, Writing, and Creativity, through the School of Creative Arts at the University of Gloucestershire. Her practice-based research explores the relationship between walking and creativity. Krista’s poem “Christmas Eve” was shortlisted in our 2024 Walking Together writing competition, and two of her stories, “Meet me at the place near the coast?” and “Almost 40” have been included in our recent 39 Steps micro-fiction anthology.

Walking Writers Salons are hour-long events in which you will get to meet a Walking Writer and learn from them how they weave writing and walking, and how they interpret their surroundings. Each Salon will include a discussion with the author, inviting questions from the audience, and may include a multiple choice quiz in which a winner will receive a prize.