Writing The Landscape

Ten years ago, Frances Lincoln, publishers of the Alfred Wainwright pictorial guides to the Lake District, launched a brand new literary prize for published nature writing books. Now managed by …

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Remarkable Wrexham

You could say Wrexham has an A-list aura about it at the moment. This Welsh border conurbation used to be North Wales’s largest town until the Queen gave it city …

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Photography for Writers – Swanwick 2023 – August

Date: Wednesday 9th August 2023Time: 2.15pm to 3.15pmVenue: Swanwick Writers Summer School at The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, DerbyshireBooking/Cost: These workshops are part of the 5-day Writers Summer School conference. …

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Beautiful Bewdley

“There’s a giraffe, Granddad!” An excited six-year-old girl bounces up and down on her seat as she points out of the train window. Granddad buries his nose in his weekend …

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Snapper Simon Soundcheck!

It’s funny how these things work sometimes. I was on Twitter (one of many procrastination moments of the day) when a follower pointed out that I had an Editor’s Pick …

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Herefordshire’s Haunted Borderlands

If you check out the February 2023 issue if Country Walking magazine, you’ll see my route from Kington up onto Hergest Ridge (and back) is this month’s Classic walking route. …

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Go Wide

The business of writing can seem complicated at times, so in last month’s issue we explored how a simple approach to self-publishing can be achieved by launching a book on …

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KISS: Keep It Simple Self-publishing

Self-publishing your first book in 2023? Simon Whaley suggests a ten-kiss plan to keeping it simple. Could 2023 be the year you self-publish your first book? As technology advances, self-publishing …

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