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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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    • Lincolnshire Voices: a photographic coda by Neil Sentance

      Now there was a general air of dereliction, as if the mellowed bricks knew they’d soon be demolished to red dust.

      August 23, 2021
      Essay, Photography, The Clearing
    • The Water’s Question / The Wind’s Answer by Phil Cope

      This was the time of the fiction of early promises. The uncomfortable compromise between the necessities of finding paid work and of safety.

      June 30, 2021
      Essay, Photography, The Clearing
    • Hope’s Photos

      Hope is now 8 years old and we think she’s got a lovely way of noticing the wildlife around her.

      September 20, 2020
      Photography, The Clearing
    • Daily Photo by Bob Gibbons

      I think these are amongst the most gorgeously elegant birds that I know. This is a black-necked Stilt* feeding along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico in winter.

      June 29, 2020
      Diary, Photography, The Clearing

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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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      And she was gone, travelling back through the ages along the path to the twenty-first century. […]

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