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          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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        • Harry and Pierse by Hana LoftusWhat drew Becker to crouch in the fields day after day, obsessively documenting his neighbours as they worked?
        • Montol and Midwinter Light by Ysella SimsWe wind through the streets, the rain giving way to the winds of the next winter storm.
        • The Lost Dens of Leicester by Sharon TyersSixty years later, I often find myself deep within our den in my dreams.
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    • John Fanshawe

      JOHN FANSHAWE is an author and environmentalist.He works with BirdLife International, the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, and is a co-founder of New Networks for Nature. RELATED BOOKS [/vc_column] My House of Sky: The…
      October 2, 2017
      Contributors, Contributors A-F
    • Christopher Matthews

      CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS is a photographer living in Chelmsford with an abiding interest in place. His documentary projects are in the collection of Te Papa Tongarewa, the Museum of New Zealand, and since…
      October 2, 2017
      Contributors, Contributors G-M
    • Sally Seymour

      SALLY SEYMOUR (née Medworth) was born in London and brought up in Australia where she studied illustration. She grew her food, made her clothes, built her house and raised a family while working…
      August 21, 2017
      Contributors, Contributors N-S
    • Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

      HUGH FEARLEY-WHITTINGSTALL  is a chef, food writer and campaigner, whose River Cottage books and television shows have made him a household name. He lives in Devon and campaigns for animal welfare, sustainable food…
      August 21, 2017
      Contributors, Contributors A-F
    • Anne Sears

      ANNE SEARS is the daughter of John and Sally Seymour. She was born at the Broom in Suffolk but has lived most of her life in Wales. She is an accomplished potter and…
      August 21, 2017
      Contributors, Contributors N-S
    • Carol 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, 2017
      Authors, Authors A-F, Contributors
    • Amy 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, 2016
      Authors, Contributors, Contributors G-M
    • Michael Kirkman

      MICHAEL KIRKMAN studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal College of Art. He now lives and works in Edinburgh. Michael’s inspiration comes from a need to communicate moments in time that seem…
      July 13, 2016
      Contributors, Contributors G-M
    • William 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, 2016
      Authors, Contributors, Contributors G-M
    • Alexandra Harris

      ALEXANDRA HARRIS  is is the author of Weatherland, Modernism on Sea, Virginia Woolf and Romantic Moderns, which won the Guardian First Book Award and a Somerset Maugham Award for Romantic Moderns. She…
      January 26, 2016
      Contributors, Contributors G-M
    • Horatio 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, 2015
      Authors, Authors A-F, Contributors
    • Ian McMillan

      IAN McMILLAN is a poet, playwright and the presenter of the BBC Radio 3 series, The Verb. Since drumming in Barnsley’s first folk-rock band and working in a tennis ball factory, he has been…
      August 11, 2015
      Contributors, Contributors G-M
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    About

    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.



    Submissions

    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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    Tollern river valley in West Dorset. Recorded in the Domesday survey as Tolre, derived from a Celtic word for stream in a hollow valley.

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