Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th September 2025
Delighted to be speaking for two short sessions in the Authors Tent on Saturday, on my new book Ghosts of the Farm, partly set in, & examining, the wartime, rural homefront & its stories.
Please join us to explore life at Highclere Castle between 1939 and 1945 and celebrate 80 years since the end of World War II.
Date: Begins 22 September 2025
Time: Mostly to suit
Very excited to be tutoring Granta’s Writing Nature Workshop, particularly as I remember reading, on repeat (serial-borrowed from the library I worked in) Granta Magazine’s now-famed issue Granta 102: The New Nature Writing in 2008.
Rewilding Language challenges and asks, what is the role of the nature writer today? We’ll examine the roots and possibilities of nature writing in its broadest sense. We’ll ask how nature writing from the past can help us face an environment in crisis, and how we can approach the world with wonder even as we write with grief, anger and hope.
Over eight weeks, you’ll develop a 3,000-word piece of nature writing. Through a combination of lectures, podcasts, short written assignments, guest talks and group Zooms, we’ll trace the evolution of the genre from pastoral traditions to poetic memoirs, and draw out tools for our own writing practices. Our Course Director is Author, and Founder of Willowherb Review, Jessica J.Lee. Applications for this course close Monday 8 September 2025.
It’s Michaelmas, traditional ending & beginning of the new farming year, & appropriately, it’s Book Launch Time for my new book, Ghosts of the Farm! Thrilled to be in conversation with the wonderful author, farmer (& so much else besides) Sarah Langford. We will reveal incredible, too-long-forgotten farming women & rural community champions, we will talk cowgirls & the sound of the Northern Lights, & provocatively haunted conversations about farming then & now, all hosted by the most wonderful bookshop, Hungerford Books.
Buy Ghosts of the Farm talk tickets only
Really lovely to be back at the incredible, inspirational, Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds. FarmED’s Literary Festival is spread over October & November, & features such great authors as James Rebanks, Hannah Bourne-Taylor, John Lewis-Stempel & Tristan Gooley – details here. I’m on Wednesday, 8th October, with a Wild Writing Workshop in the afternoon (find your farming ghosts – with coffee and famous FarmEDcake!) followed by an evening ‘in conversation’ with FarmED’s Agricultural Lead, Kate Henderson, which I’m really looking forward to. You can buy tickets to both, or just come to the evening talk.
Off to Taunton, Somerset next, to Brendon Bookshop with Ghosts of the Farm. There is an amazing season of Autumnal bookish events and treats here!
So good to be back in the Folde! Cannot wait to get back down to beautiful Shaftesbury, and this most wonderful bookshop community at the top of the iconic Gold Hill, that Karen and Amber have created. They are such an inspiration, there will be joy.