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Marcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick is an author and illustrator. His many books for adults and children include Floodland, The Dark Horse and The Ghosts of Heaven. He has many prizes for his work, including…July 13, 2016Neil Sentance
NEIL SENTANCE Neil Sentance was born in Lincolnshire in 1969. He now lives in west Dorset with his wife and two children. A regular contributor to Caught by the River, Water and Sky…July 12, 2016Oliver Rackham
OLIVER RACKHAM OBE FBA was the outstanding botanical and landscape writer of his generation. His books include The History of the Countryside, Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape, Ancient Woodland and…July 12, 2016Rena Gardiner
RENA GARDINER (1929 – 1999) dedicated her life to her art, doing so alone in a thatched cottage in the heart of Dorset. Combining the great tradition of British topographic artists with the rich…July 12, 2016Horatio Clare
HORATIO CLARE is the acclaimed author of Down to the Sea in Ships, A Single Swallow and Running for the Hills, which was nominated for the GuardianFirst Book Award and won the Somerset Maugham Award. Orison…December 9, 2015Richard Skelton
RICHARD SKELTON is a musician and an artist from Lancashire, northern England. Over the past decade he has produced a diverse and acclaimed body of work, including films, exhibitions, pamphlets, books, and…August 5, 2015Fred Kitchen
FRED KITCHEN (1890 - 1969) was was born in Sherwood Forest in 1890 to a Methodist family. He grew up on the Sandbeck Estate, where his father worked as a cowman for Earl of Scarbrough.…August 5, 2015Kay Syrad
KAY SYRAD's novels include Send (forthcoming October 2015) and The Milliner and the Phrenologist. She has also published the poetry collections, Double Edge and Objects of Colour, and two Thames & Hudson…June 11, 2015Chris Drury
CHRIS DRURY is an artist whose has spent over 40 years working and exhibiting worldwide and making connections between nature and culture. His work uses a variety of means and materials to…June 11, 2015Llewelyn Powys
Llewelyn Powys was born in Dorchester, Dorset, the eighth child in a family that included the novelists John Cowper Powys and T. F. Powys. He grew up in Somerset, and was educated at…March 31, 2015Martin Andrews
MARTIN ANDREWS is a printing historian and a Lecturer in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading. He has published numerous articles and books on Robert Gibbings (2003), Fox Talbot…March 19, 2015Julian Francis
JULIAN FRANCIS lives in Dorset and is a keen collector of Rena’s books. His previous books include Tom Chadwick and the Grosvenor School of Modern Art (Fleece Press, 2013). He is currently working…March 19, 2015
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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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