CANOPY 3 – An Anthology of Writing for the Urban Tree Festival 2022

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

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

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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Canopy 2 – Urban Tree Festival 2021

This anthology is published to coincide with the Urban Tree Festival in May 2021. During the pandemic, we all came to
appreciate the nature that surrounds us. Trees in our parks, streets and front gardens have provided shade, shelter and a changing view. They have boosted our spirits and willingly offered us something to hug! In the Spring of 2021 the Museum of Walking invited people to put into writing their feelings about trees close to you, to submit a poem or a flash writing piece of 250 words (or under).

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Canopy 2
An Anthology of Writing for the Urban Tree Festival 2021
Gabriel Burrow, Alison Clark, Georgia Cook, Chris Cuninghame, Charis Fox, Sandra Horn, Peter Isaacson, Sarah McPherson, Tom Raw, E. E. Rhodes, Robert Seatter, Andrew Simms, Rachel Sloan and Sarah Wheeler.
Published May 2021
ISBN 978-1-912960-69-9
A6 Size
28 printed pages
Colour
Museum of Walking Chapbook 8
SLB0182
Print run of 250
Price – £3.99
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The winning poems were judged by Dr Samantha Walton (Reader in Modern Literature at Bath Spa University and a Board member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment) 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 installation artist running the MA in Directing
Fiction at Goldsmiths, University of London) and Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone (author, editor and tutor on the Novel Studio at City, University of London).