Protected: Leaf Litter by William Rowlandson
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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, 2025Raptors of the Concrete Cloverleaf by Christopher Brown
The idea of rewilding is sometimes coupled with fantasies of depopulation, but it needn’t be that way.
February 10, 2025Aqua Vitae by Kirsteen McNish
A trickle of water dances over my feet, releasing a barely audible sound.
January 13, 2025A Welcome from the White Cottage by Liz Williams
‘Wales was an old crush I couldn’t shake. The solitude of its remote coastlines; an oldness that boasted permanence’
December 17, 2024
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.
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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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