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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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        • Murujuga by Sally McEnallayOur history hides underneath, requiring forensic and patient excavation sometimes with tweezers and small brushes.
        • 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.
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    • Agnes Miller Parker

       AGNES MILLER PARKER (1895-1980) was born in North Ayrshire and trained at Glasgow School of Art, where she later taught and met her husband the artist William McCance. Well-known for the distinctive…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors N-S
    • Iain Stewart

      IAIN STEWART’s many BBC television and radio credits include How Earth Made Us, Men of Rock and Making Scotland’s Landscape. Born in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, he is Professor of Geosciences Communication at…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors N-S
    • Mary Newcomb

      MARY NEWCOMB (1922-2008) was born in Harrow-on-the-Hill in 1922.  In 1943 she was awarded a B.S.c in Natural Sciences from Reading University, and a Diploma of Education the following year.  Between 1944…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors N-S
    • Mark Hearld

      Born in 1974, Mark studied illustration at Glasgow College of Art and then completed an MA in Natural History Illustration at the Royal College of Art. Taking his inspiration from the flora and…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors G-M
    • Michael Morpurgo

      MICHAEL MORPURGO is one of Britain’s best-loved authors and served as Children’s Laureate between 2003-2005. War Horse (1982), his story of survival during the First World War, is now a highly acclaimed…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors G-M
    • Carol Klein

      CAROL KLEIN is a lifelong plant lover and gardener. She trained as a fine artist and worked as a teacher before setting up her own nursery. She began exhibiting at Royal Horticultural…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors G-M
    • Ed Kluz

      ED KLUZ grew up in the wilds of the Yorkshire Dales, where ruined abbeys and castles stirred an early interest in English Romanticism. Influenced by such artists as John Piper and Barbara…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors G-M
    • 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
    • Kyffin Williams

      KYFFIN WILLIAMS (1918-2006) was born in Llangefni, Anglesey. He was educated at Moreton Hall School then Shrewsbury School before joining the 6th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers as a lieutenant in 1937. After…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors
    • C.F. Tunnicliffe

      C.F. TUNNICLIFFE (1901-1979) was a prolific wildlife and landscape artist, whose work varied from Brooke Bond tea cards to such books as The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway. He…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors T-Z
    • Adam Nicolson

      ADAM NICOLSON is the author of many books on history and the landscape, for which he has won the Somerset Maugham, Ondaatje and William Heinemann Prizes. He is owner of the Shiant…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors N-S
    • David Inshaw

      David Inshaw

      DAVID INSHAW is one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists, whose paintings, etchings and drawings are often set in the downlands of southern England. His work is in many private and public collections,…
      May 8, 2012
      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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