Canopy: Secrets of the trees

October 24, 2023October 24, 2023albanlow Tags: Adam Elms, Andrew Halsall Smith, Arthur Sparrow, Cheryl Markosky, Em Gray, Galia Admoni, John Bowen, Julian Bishop, Kyra Williams, Lizzie Gwinnell, Museum of Walking, Penny Walker, Rayna Haralambieva Leave a comment

This anthology is published to coincide with the Urban Tree Festival in May 2023. The pieces included were selected from over 160 entries to a competition run over the winter months of 2022/3. Entrants were asked to write about “Secrets of the Trees” as poems or stories in 250 words or fewer.

The theme of “Secrets of the Trees” was set by our previous winners: M.L. Grieve for poetry and Joanna Walworth for prose. They chose the theme as they felt that “Our urban trees have stood central to the story of urban development and urban living for centuries. What human stories have they witnessed? Time to give the urban trees a voice!”

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Canopy: Secrets of the trees
An Anthology of Writing for the Urban Tree Festival 2023
Galia Admoni, Julian Bishop, John Bowen, Adam Elms, Em Gray, Lizzie Gwinnell, Andrew Halsall Smith, Rayna Haralambieva, Cheryl Markosky, Arthur Sparrow, Penny Walker, and Kyra Williams.
Published 2023
ISBN 978-1-915505-17-0
A6 Size
24 printed pages
Colour
Museum of Walking Chapbook 13
SLB0230
Price – £4.99
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CANOPY 3 – An Anthology of Writing for the Urban Tree Festival 2022

May 8, 2022albanlow Tags: alban low, Chapbook, Cheryl Markosky, Chris Bestwick, Daniel Harwood, Gina Headden, Jackie Morrison, Joanna Wolfarth, Jude Higgins, Laurence Sullivan, M.L. Grieve, Museum of Walking, Nancy Charley, Rosaleen Lynch, Sally Duffin, Sara Stegen, Urban Tree Festival Leave a comment

This anthology is published to coincide with the Urban Tree Festival in May 2022. The pieces included were selected from over 100+ entries to a competition run in Spring 2022. Entrants were asked to write about “Healing Trees” as poems or stories in 250 words or fewer.

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The theme of “Healing Trees” was set by our previous winners: Chris Cuninghame for poetry and Sarah Wheeler for prose. They chose the theme as they felt it was pertinent to these challenging times and wanted entrants to reveal “the power of trees to heal themselves and us, to contribute to well-being and to sustain ecosystems.”

They also volunteered to be judges in this year’s competition, joined on the poetry side by Anita Roy, writer, editor and environmentalist, and on the prose side by N.G. Bristow, a screen writer, director and visual artist, rooted at Goldsmiths University of London, where he runs the MA in Directing Fiction.

Canopy 3
An Anthology of Writing for the Urban Tree Festival 2022
Nancy Charley, Sally Duffin, M.L. Grieve, Daniel Harwood, Gina Headden, Jude Higgins, Rosaleen Lynch, Cheryl Markosky, Jackie Morrison, Sara Stegen, Laurence Sullivan and Joanna Wolfarth
Published May 2022
ISBN 978-1-915505-07-1
A6 Size
24 printed pages
Colour
Museum of Walking Chapbook 12
SLB0220
Price – £4.99
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Edited by Chris Bestwick
Illustrated by Alban Low

HENSTORY – Sarah Hill Wheeler

January 13, 2022albanlow Tags: Chapbook, Museum of Walking, Sarah Hill Wheeler, Urban Tree Festival Leave a comment

Sarah Hill Wheeler was the Short Story Winner of the Urban Tree Festival 2021 writing competition made possible through support from the Mayor of London. As well as becoming the Story Writer-in-Residence for the Urban Tree Festival 2022, Sarah also won the opportunity to create a limited edition chapbook; hence this beautiful collection of stories, Hen Story, was born. Filled with precise observations of life at its most precarious, these flash fictions explore genesis, evolution and hope. Hen Story is a fabulous collection with a breathable, fragile shell and a rich yoked heart. You’ll want to crack it open over and again.

HENSTORY
Sarah Hill Wheeler
Published January 2022
ISBN 978-1-912960-85-9
A6 Size
20 printed pages
Colour
Museum of Walking Chapbook 9
SLB0198
Print run of 100
Price – £2.60
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SMALL CHANGE – Christopher Cuninghame

January 13, 2022January 13, 2022albanlow Tags: Chapbook, Christopher Cuninghame, Museum of Walking, Urban Tree Festival Leave a comment

Christopher Cuninghame was the Poetry Winner of the Urban Tree Festival 2021 writing competition made possible through support from the Mayor of London. As well as becoming the Poetry Writer-in-Residence for the Urban Tree Festival 2022, Christopher also won the opportunity to create a limited edition chapbook; resulting in this wonderful collection of poems, Small Change. Casting a careful eye over the subtle shades of time’s movements over the natural world and the relationships within it, Small Change is an elegant collection reminding us to look and look again at what surrounds us.

SMALL CHANGE
Christopher Cuninghame
Published January 2022
ISBN 978-1-912960-88-0
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Museum of Walking Chapbook 11
SLB0201
Print run of 100
Price – £2.60
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A WEEK TO WALK A FORTNIGHT – NG Bristow

October 26, 2021October 26, 2021albanlow Tags: Andrew Stuck, Museum of Walking, NG Bristow Leave a comment

SUNDAY FOR SEVEN DAYS (ALL OVER LONDON) – Seven print stories and geolocated audio.

IF IT TAKES A WEEK TO WALK A FORTNIGHT… – Seven print stories (plus seven more companion stories) and geolocated audio.

THE WALKING CURE – an immersive detective story. Geolocated audio for a 30 minute two-person sound walk experience.

A WEEK TO WALK A FORTNIGHT
Flash fiction with links to geolocated audio
NG Bristow and Andrew Stuck
Published October 2021
ISBN 978-1-912960-69-9
A6 Size
40 printed pages
Colour
Museum of Walking Chapbook 10
SLB0200
Print run of 200
Price – £4.99
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Original artwork by Alban Low.

NG BRISTOW is a writer / director and artist. He runs the MA in Directing Fiction at Goldsmiths, University of London. Credits as screenwriter / director include commissions by FilmFour, C4, BBC, UKFC, BFI, NIFC, NI Screen and the Arts Council. He has acted opposite Vivian Stanshall in the Tale of the Long Sky; terrified audiences with his binaural nightmare, The Ever-Expanding Cabinet of Unnameable Horrors, and brought theatre to the terraces of Millwall Football Club. He is a former Irish men’s sabre champion, though his fencing is a little rusty these days…

ANDREW STUCK is the founder of The Museum of Walking, created to bring people together and showcase walking pieces and performances. He is also a podcaster, interviewing creative people who use walking as a catalyst for their practice. Talking Walking is now in its twelfth year with more than 100 episodes. www.talkingwalking.net

CANOPY – Museum of Walking Chapbook 7

June 5, 2020June 15, 2020albanlow Tags: Albert Pellicer, Amanda Tuke, Chapbook, Deborah Harrison, E. E. Rhodes, Joseph Surtees, Mark Stewart, Museum of Walking, Nick Fox, Paul Chown, Rachel Playforth, Robert Hogg Leave a comment

This anthology is published to coincide with the Urban Tree Festival in May 2020. In the Spring of 2020 the Museum of Walking invited people to submit a poem or a flash writing piece of 250 words (or under) inspired by the anniversaries of four British poets and writers who have put nature writing on the map.

Canopy includes the winning pieces from Paul Chown, Nick Fox, Deborah Harrison, Robert Hogg, Rachel Playforth, Albert Pellicer, E. E. Rhodes, Mark Stewart, Joseph Surtees and Amanda Tuke.

The winning poems were judged by Peter Jaeger (Professor of Poetics at the University of Roehampton in London, where he also directs the Exploratory Writing Research Group) and Ghazal Mosadeq (founder of Pamenar Press, an independent cross-cultural,
multi-lingual publisher based in UK, Canada and Iran). The winning stories were judged by N G Bristow (screen writer, director and visual artist running the MA in Directing Fiction at Goldsmiths, University of London), and Andrew Stuck (Founding Director of the Museum of Walking)

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CANOPY
An Anthology of Writing for the Urban Tree Festival
Paul Chown, Nick Fox, Deborah Harrison, Robert Hogg, Rachel Playforth, Albert Pellicer, E. E. Rhodes, Mark Stewart, Joseph Surtees and Amanda Tuke
Published May 2020
ISBN 978-1-912960-57-6
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Museum of Walking Chapbook 7
SLB0170
Print run of 500
Price – £2.99
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Winter Chill – Museum of Walking Chapbook 6

May 1, 2020May 1, 2020albanlow Tags: Andrew Anderson, Carrie Dunne, Chapbook, Dan Harwood, David Fell, DT Langdale, Jane Lomas, Maria Precedo, Museum of Walking, Sara Hodgkinson, Sue Dawes Leave a comment

9781912960552 During the winter of 2019/2020, the Museum of Walking invited people to submit a chilling flash writing piece of 250 words (or under) inspired by the theme of winter chill. We were looking for stories or creative non-fiction that thrilled the reader through mystery, crime or horror and the winning stories do just that, twisting our perceptions of witches, unravelling criminal mindsets and exploring unusual phenomena. Prepare to be unnerved.

The winning stories from the competition were judged by N G Bristow (screen writer, director and visual artist running the MA in Directing Fiction at Goldsmiths, University of London), Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone (author, editor and tutor on the Novel Studio at City, University of London) and Andrew Stuck (Founding Director of the Museum of Walking).

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Winter Chill
Stories or creative non-fiction that thrill through mystery, crime or horror
Andrew Anderson, Sue Dawes, Carrie Dunne, David Fell, Dan Harwood, Sara Hodgkinson, DT Langdale, Jane Lomas, Maria Precedo
Published May 2020
ISBN 978-1-912960-55-2
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Museum of Walking Chapbook 6
SLB0168
Print run of 100
Price – £2.99
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Autumn Colours – Museum of Walking Chapbook 5

February 20, 2020February 20, 2020albanlow Tags: Andrew Anderson, Andrew Stuck, Chapbook, Jane Adams, Jane Lomas, John Woolner, Mel Davies, Museum of Walking, N G Bristow, Pennie Hedge, Rachel Dowse, Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone, Ruth Bradshaw, Sarah Leavesley, Sarah Mosedale, Sharon Pinner Leave a comment

During the autumn of 2019, the Museum of Walking invited people to submit a flash writing piece of 250 words (or under) inspired by the colours of the changing autumn season. We were looking for the best fact or fiction stories responding to the Autumn Colours theme and were delighted by the response. Turn the leaves to follow the shifting autumn trail for yourselves.

Illustrated by Alban Low

Autumn Colours
An Anthology of Seasonal Stories
Jane Adams, Andrew Anderson, Ruth Bradshaw, Mel Davies, Rachel Dowse, Pennie Hedge, Sarah Leavesley, Jane Lomas, Sarah Mosedale, Sharon Pinner, John Woolner
Published February 2020
ISBN 978-1-912960-39-2
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Museum of Walking Chapbook 5
SLB0152
Print run of 150
Price – £2.99
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Flash #MyLandmarks – Museum of Walking Chapbook

November 13, 2019albanlow Tags: Alison Fure, Amanda Tuke, Andrew Anderson, Andrew Stuck, Carrie Dunne, Chapbook, Laurence Sullivan, Mel Davies, Museum of Walking, N G Bristow, Paul Chown, Pennie Hedge, Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone, Ruth Bradshaw Leave a comment

During September 2019, the Museum of Walking invited people to submit a flash writing piece of 250 words (or under) about a place that is meaningful and significant to them. We were open to personal impressions, stories or descriptions of buildings, natural elements like trees, lakes or places anywhere in the world.

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Flash #MyLandmarks includes the winning stories from Andrew Anderson, Ruth Bradshaw, Paul Chown, Mel Davies, Carrie Dunne, Alison Fure, Pennie Hedge, Laurence Sullivan and Amanda Tuke.

The competition was judged by N G Bristow (screen writer, director and visual artist running the MA in Directing Fiction at Goldsmiths, University of London), Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone (author, editor and tutor on the Novel Studio at City, University of London) and Andrew Stuck (Founding Director of the Museum of Walking).

Flash #MyLandmarks
Stories of special places
Andrew Anderson, Ruth Bradshaw, Paul Chown, Mel Davies, Carrie Dunne, Alison Fure,
Pennie Hedge, Laurence Sullivan and Amanda Tuke
Published November 2019
ISBN 978-1-912960-33-0
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Museum of Walking Chapbook 4
SLB0146
Print run of 100
Price – £3.99
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One Small Step – Flash fiction inspired by the first Moon Walk

October 11, 2019albanlow Tags: Andrew Anderson, Andy Lavender, Bart Van Goethem, Carrie Dunne, Diane Woodrow, Gordon Duncan, Helen Ottaway, Jason Jawando, Kate Kirby, Laura Besley, Mel Davies, Museum of Walking, Ned Carter Miles, Nora Nadjarian, Phoebe Demeger, Roz Mascall, Sylvia Petter Leave a comment

On the 20th July 1969 Neil Armstrong, one of the three members of the Apollo II crew, uttered those famous words as he was the first human being to step and then walk on the Moon. A global televised event, the first Moon Walk not only evokes a nostalgia for an as yet unrealised future of the Space Age, but also a discomfort around the language of colonisation and conquest, inspiring the Museum of Walking to run the One Small Step Creative Writing Walkshop, held on the 20th July 2019 and to hold the One Small Step Flash Writing Competition.

One Small Step includes the winning stories from Andrew Anderson, Laura Besley, Ned Carter Miles, Mel Davies, Phoebe Demeger, Gordon Duncan, Carrie Dunne, Jason
Jawando, Kate Kirby, Andy Lavender, Roz Mascall, Nora Nadjarian, Helen Ottaway, Sylvia Petter, Bart Van Goethem and Diane Woodrow. The competition was judged by N G Bristow (screen writer, director and visual artist running the MA in Directing Fiction at Goldsmiths,
University of London), Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone (author, editor and tutor on the Novel Studio at City, University of London) and Andrew Stuck (Founding Director of the
Museum of Walking).

One Small Step
Flash fiction inspired by the first Moon Walk
Andrew Anderson, Laura Besley, Ned Carter Miles, Mel Davies, Phoebe Demeger, Gordon Duncan, Carrie Dunne, Jason Jawando, Kate Kirby, Andy Lavender, Roz Mascall, Nora Nadjarian, Helen Ottaway, Sylvia Petter, Bart Van Goethem and Diane Woodrow
Published October 2019
ISBN 978-1-912960-27-9
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Museum of Walking Chapbook 3
SLB0139
Print run of 200
Price – £3.99
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