Tag / memoir
The Lost Dens of Leicester by Sharon Tyers
Sixty years later, I often find myself deep within our den in my dreams.
August 26, 2025The Bungalow by Ken Worpole
Grandma Elvin was always in demand as a fortune-teller, as well as being accomplished in other psychic gifts.
September 23, 2024Wild Twin by Jeff Young, an extract
It’s seven o’clock on a Monday morning in March, sometime in the 1970s, and I’m not going to work.
August 28, 2024Circling Home by Laura Parker
Encircled by magic. No wonder the land has held me in its thrall.
March 1, 2024Manni Coe and Reuben Coe at Cheltenham Literature Festival
Manni Coe and Reuben Coe on rebuilding their relationship in later life at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
September 8, 2022
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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.
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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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