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Clare Best
Clare Best’s writing crosses two abiding interests – landscape and body. Her first full collection of poetry, Excisions, was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize 2012. Springlines was published to accompany…
September 13, 2017Hetty Saunders
Hetty Saunders was first introduced to J. A. Baker and the Baker Archive as a literature postgraduate at the University of Cambridge. She was instantly captivated by the astounding prose of Baker’s first…September 4, 2017J. A. Baker
Since rising to fame in 1967, when his work The Peregrine was awarded the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, J. A. Baker has captured popular imagination with his vivid depictions of British landscapes…September 4, 2017A. G. Street
A. G. Street (1892 - 1966) was a farmer and broadcaster who grew up in Wiltshire, farmed first in Canada before returning to southern England, and wrote many books, of which Farmer's Glory was…September 4, 2017John Seymour
JOHN SEYMOUR was an ecological pioneer who championed the cause of living simply. A prolific author and activist in the self-sufficiency movement, Seymour travelled widely in his youth in Africa, India and around…August 21, 2017Fiona Sampson
FIONA SAMPSON has published twenty-seven books and received the Newdigate Prize, a Cholmondeley Award, Writer’s Awards from the Arts Councils of England and of Wales and the Society of Authors, various Poetry Book…June 6, 2017Carol Donaldson
CAROL DONALDSON is a writer and conservationist. Originally from Essex, she left Britain at nineteen and lived in a trailer while she helped to build houses for Native Americans in Canada. Since…March 8, 2017Amy Liptrot
AMY LIPTROT has published her work with various magazines, journals and blogs and she has written a regular column for Caught by the River out of whichThe Outrun has emerged. As well as…July 13, 2016William Fiennes
WILLIAM FIENNES is the bestselling author of The Snow Geese and The Music Room. He has contributed reviews, essays and stories to many publications, including the London Review of Books, Granta, the Observer and…July 13, 2016John Burnside
JOHN BURNSIDE was born in 1955. He is a poet, novelist, journalist and former software engineer. He is the author of Burning Elvis, Glister and A Summer of Drowning. His memoir A Lie About My Father won many…July 13, 2016John Fowles
JOHN FOWLES (1926-2005) won international recognition with his first published title, The Collector (1963). He was immediately acclaimed as an outstandingly innovative writer of exceptional imaginative power and this reputation was confirmed with the appearance of his…July 13, 2016Dexter Petley
DEXTER PETLEY was born in the Kentish Weald in 1955. He is the author of several acclaimed novels including Little Niveneh, Joyride and White Lies, which was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. He is…
July 13, 2016
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THE CLEARING is an online journal published by Little Toller Books that offers writers and artists a dedicated space in which to explore and celebrate the landscapes we live in. Our contributors are encouraged to go forth and find distinctive visions that startle us, rural or urban, modern or prehistoric, industrial, post-industrial, fantastical, natural, political, however they come. But each must be meaningful, surprising, felt.
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The editors welcome original submissions in written, audio and visual genres. Submission should reflect The Clearing/Little Toller’s concern with the natural environment, but within this broad subject-matter we encourage a diversity of interpretation and approach.
If you’d like to submit work to The Clearing, please email theclearing@littletoller.co.uk. Please refer to the submission guidelines. While we receive many submissions we will get back to you as soon as we are able.
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