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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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    • Stephen Bone

      STEPHEN BONE (1904 – 1958) was a painter, art critic, author and an official war artist. His work is in many public collections, including the Tate Gallery and the Imperial War Museum.He…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors A-F
    • Laura Beatty

      LAURA BEATTY’s first novel, Pollard, won the Author’s Club First Novel Award in 2009 and was nominated for the Ondaatje Prize. She is married with three children and lives in the middle…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors A-F
    • Tim Dee

      TIM DEE was born in Liverpool in 1961 and grew up in Surrey and Bristol. He has worked as a BBC radio producer for over twenty years. The Running Sky, a memoir…
      May 8, 2012
      Authors, Contributors, Contributors A-F
    • Eric Fitch Daglish

      ERIC FITCH DAGLISH (1894-1966) was a wood engraver, watercolour painter and illustrator, mainly of birds and country life. As well as The South Country, he illustrated Woodcuts of British Birds (1925), The…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors A-F
    • Ronald Blythe

      RONALD BLYTHE is a leading observer of rural life in Britain whose books include the bestselling Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (1969). Much of his work reflects his East Anglian background.…
      May 8, 2012
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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.



    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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