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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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    • Robert Macfarlane

      ROBERT MACFARLANE is author of The Wild Places (2007) and Mountains of the Mind (2003), which won the Guardian First Book Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors G-M
    • 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
    • John Nash

      JOHN NASH (1893 – 1977) was a painter, watercolourist, wood engraver and illustrator. The Cornfield was the first painting he made after the First World War, in which he fought and was…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors N-S
    • 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
      Contributors, Contributors A-F
    • Winifred Nicholson

      WINIFRED NICHOLSON (1893 – 1981) was concerned throughout her career with light and colour. She made many visits to the Hebrides and painted some of her best loved paintings in Scotland. Bonnie…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors N-S
    • John Lister-Kaye

      JOHN LISTER-KAYE is one of Scotland’s best-known naturalists and conservationists. He founded the Aigas Field Centre in 1977, and has served as Chairman of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors G-M
    • Kate Lynch

      KATE LYNCH lives on the Somerset Levels. Her drawings and paintings of rural life document willow-growers, basket-makers, peat-diggers, bee-keepers and shepherds. She is an elected member of The Royal West of England…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors G-M
    • Howard Phipps

      HOWARD PHIPPS is a painter, printmaker, and illustrator with a particular interest in the downs of Wiltshire and Dorset. He is a member of the Society of Wood Engravers and The Royal…
      May 8, 2012
      Contributors, Contributors N-S
    • Richard Mabey

      RICHARD MABEY is the godfather of contemporary nature writing and has authored some forty books, including Food for Free, the groundbreaking Flora Britannica and The Unofficial Countryside, Beechcombings, The Cabaret of Plants, and…
      May 2, 2012
      Authors, Authors G-M, Contributors
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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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