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Walking the Bride by Kevan Manwaring
Surely, the river belongs to the whole valley and all who love it.
June 13, 2025Snickets by Nic Wilson
Many of the paths are old ways, repositories of long-forgotten stories.
June 9, 2025Feeding the Hungry by Emma Rose Barber
I walk on. In that excited city, there is a group of people queuing to get near the firework display.
May 28, 2025A Field with a View by Jane Ryan
I knew that ownership was one key to the sense of safety that this meadow was offering us.
May 6, 2025Leaf Litter by William Rowlandson
And that is where the pain is. Like a medic in a war, patching up the wounded to patch up the wounded.
April 22, 2025The Man of Blackmore Vale by Jonathan Law
How do we separate the reality of a place, a region, from our private hopes and nostalgias?
April 7, 2025Nature Writing by Jeremy Hughes
You see your childhood in your green-leafed head.
Sticklebacks and newts in a stringed glass jarApril 1, 2025Watermark by Davina Quinlivan
I stand on the threshold to her flat and watch myself close the door.
March 21, 2025In Pursuit of Today’s Spring by Ned Vessey
It troubles me still, a year later, this state of knowing only through absence.
March 17, 2025Pilgrim by Graham Mort
We shake hands and he walks on uphill, limping slightly, bent against the wind.
March 6, 2025Act of Birdsong by Sheena Graham-George
WATCH: Act of Birdsong, a beautiful short film by Sheena Graham-George.
February 18, 2025
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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