Cogs whirring after first meeting with the team @walklistencreate.org, with @elizafevwrites.bsky.social, to kick off our both being writers in residence for the next year. Opportunities, ideas, connections. What are these feelings I'm feeling?

'Realignment', a new story of coastal erosion, falling and love, is out today in Issue 3 of Ambient Receiver. And it's in such great company. Take a look here www.ambientreceiver.org and www.ambientreceiver.org/penny-walker #AmWriting #SpeculativeFiction #CoastalErosion #CliFi #DeindustrialFiction

'Realignment', a new story of coastal erosion, falling and love, is out today in Issue 3 of Ambient Receiver. And it's in such great company. Take a look here www.ambientreceiver.org and www.ambientreceiver.org/penny-walker #AmWriting #SpeculativeFiction #CoastalErosion #CliFi #DeindustrialFiction

Ambient Receiver 3 is out on Monday. I have a story in it, alongside nearly forty other writers, poets and other artists. Journal of Creative Ecologies. Check it out: ambientreceiver.org

Copies of the limited-edition chapbook Walking in the Dark, containing the fifteen flash stories and poems shortlisted for the competition, including Seeing the Moon (by me). #FlashFiction #SpeculativeFiction @walklistencreate.org Buy it here! walklistencreate.org/shop/walking/

Nooooo! Don't scrap the Finch ruling! Keir Starmer may see them as part of “unnecessary red-tape, well-intentioned, but fundamentally misguided, environmental regulations” but the Finch ruling, Habitats Regulations, biodiversity net gain, etc, are vital protections for our planet and for nature.

Congratulations! 😀

I'm still buzzing from this and looking forward to being a writer-in-residence alongside @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social walklistencreate.org/mailing/cong...

Morning Big Man. I had the pleasure this weekend of reading @walklistencreate.org’s beautiful chapbook anthology of shortlisted works for the Walking in the Dark competition. @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social & @elizafevwrites.bsky.social were the winners. The anthology can be obtained from WLC this week

Very excited about this! Especially the part of the prize which is being a writer in residence - what will happen?! walklistencreate.org/mailing/cong...

I'm over the moon that my poem, Nightstepper, has won the poetry prize in the @walklistencreate.org 'Walking in the Dark' competition. Congratulations to all who were part of this lovely evening of words, and to the judges for their generous comments.

Thank you to all the judges, team, fellow writers. Can’t wait to see what everyone does next! #AmWriting #FlashFiction #SpeculativeFiction

Absolutely delighted that 'Seeing the Moon', a Tithingdale story, has won the fiction section of this competition. Thank you @chantallyons.bsky.social for your very kind words - that's what I'd hoped for and you saw it in this very short story. walklistencreate.org/2025/11/30/w...

Congratulations 🥳 to very deserving winners for @walklistencreate.org ‘Writing In The Dark’ competition @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social and @elizafevwrites.bsky.social - such a wonderful evening of prose & poetry this evening and fab awareness raising of the work Walk | Write | Create do 🎉

So this happened! Thanks so much to all the other writers and poets, judges, organisers… 🌓 @walklistencreate.org @electrarhodes.bsky.social

And huge congratulations go to the story winner @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social and poetry winner @elizafevwrites.bsky.social 👏👏👏 Thanks to @walklistencreate.org for a brilliant evening and to the judges Chantal Lyon’s, Matthew Beaumont, Damaris West & @marcellenewbold.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you so much, Paul!! Congrats to @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social and to all of the long- and shortlistees! With thanks to the poetry judges Damaris West end @marcellenewbold.bsky.social

And here is the link to the Showcase Reading at 5pm today! us02web.zoom.us/j/8413553675...

Today at 5pm we'll be celebrating this beautiful little anthology of stories and poems about Walking in the Dark And if you can't make today's online reading, you can also listen to an audio version of the poem performed by the actress Mel Sutton here: write.walklistencreate.org/.../moonligh...

Just got mine as well, the illustrations are fantastic! Looking forward to the showcase 😊💜

It’s here! The chapbook with short-listed poems and stories, including Seeing the Moon. Thank you @walklistencreate.org and see you on Sunday for the showcase. #AmWritingFiction #FlashFiction #SpeculativeFiction

Very interesting live edit of Thrutopian poetry the other evening, including this idea about timescales: Thrutopian writing is about solutions ‘at walking pace from here’. Thanks to Bending The Arc Magazine poetry editors for the conversation. substack.com/@bendingthea...

Really looking forward to this showcase event on Sunday November 30th for all the shortlisted authors in @walklistencreate.org’s Walking in the Dark competition (supporting the great Women Walking, the City, at Night campaign). Tickets available in the link below #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

Will our hero manage to overcome her self-sabotaging thoughts and write some made-up stuff? substack.com/@pennywalker...

Huge congrats to my fellow shortlistees: @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social, @elizafevwrites.bsky.social, @eleanorholmes.bsky.social, @sarahleavesley.bsky.social, @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social, @lauratheis.bsky.social, @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social, Krista Carson, Isabella Mead Husain, and Emily Wilkinson.

Speculative archaeology: reflecting on a recent research visit. I make contact with a friend of a friend who is an archaeologist. He’s willing to listen to me describe my speculative world, show me round the processing rooms... substack.com/home/post/p-... (Pic: Maisie Jewkes CC BY-NC-ND)

So happy that 'Seeing the Moon' has been short-listed for this prize! walklistencreate.org/2025/11/20/d... Thank you to judges @marcellenewbold.bsky.social & Damaris West, and to @walklistencreate.org for organising. #AmWriting #FlashFiction #EcoHopeful #SpeculativeFiction #DeindustrialFiction

Very excited that ‘Seeing the Moon’ is on this shortlist! #SpeculativeFiction #DeindustrialFiction #CliFi #AmWriting

Great to be shortlisted with @erinbondo.com @elizafevwrites.bsky.social @eleanorholmes.bsky.social @sarahleavesley.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @lauratheis.bsky.social @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social & more. Thanks to @walklistencreate.org & judges @marcellenewbold.bsky.social & Damaris West

Long list of our #Walking #InTheDark competition announced - terrific poems and stories beautifully penned - read them here wlc.zone/ark

Weeding I love weeding. I hate weeding. Today I made a to do list and the first item was ‘weeding until 12.00’. open.substack.com/pub/pennywal...

We received a wonderful (anonymous) selection of poems, and short stories, many thanks to all who submitted. You gave me, and my poetry co-judge Daramis, a tricky job. Congratulations to all! And thank you @walklistencreate.org for the judging invitation.

You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires? This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get. Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires. They’re for everyone.

Joined Writers’ Hour this morning, writershour.com which I’ve done a lot lately, and today the words just flowed. Pic filtered for privacy of fellow writers. #AmWriting #SpeculativeFiction #EcoHopeful #Thrutopia #SolarPunk #CliFi #DeindustrialFiction #WriteAlong

Speculative archaeology: reflecting on a recent research visit. I make contact with a friend of a friend who is an archaeologist. He’s willing to listen to me describe my speculative world, show me round the processing rooms... substack.com/home/post/p-... (Pic: Maisie Jewkes CC BY-NC-ND)

You can now listen to “Seeing the Moon”, on Walk - Listen - Create’s site. write.walklistencreate.org/wr_writing/s... #AudioStory #SpeculativeFiction #FlashFiction

I’ve been thinking a lot about a character today: his motivations, how he behaves, what he dismisses and what he pays attention to. I haven’t put anything on paper though. Am I writing? #AmWritingFiction #SpeculativeFiction #CliFi #EcoFiction

One of the funnest parts of writing speculative fiction, especially of the hopeful eco type, is field research. Today I took my broken radio to a repair workshop… run by Fixing Factories in Haringey.

🎉💚🥹 Delighted to be longlisted this morning Thankyou to the judges @marcellenewbold.bsky.social , Damaris West, @chantallyons.bsky.social & Matthew Beaumont Congrats to all long listers 🌚 I've just had a lovely morning reading through the pieces ☕📜 @rachelape.bsky.social 🧵1/3 #NatureWriting

Gave blood today, and had to wait for half an hour after to check no repetition of the faintness I experienced last time. All fine. The half hour enforced sit was a great chance to scribble in my notebook with no pressure.

"Seeing the Moon" is a new flash fiction piece, set in Tithingdale, long-listed for the 'Walking in the Dark' competition run by walk - listen - create. Find it, and the other long-listed piece, here wlc.zone/7yg #AmWritingFiction #FlashFiction #SpeculativeFiction

“You’re a tourist? Trouble with your wifi? Round here, you need to get on Fitznet. I can trade you an access voucher, on the sly. Fitzcoin please. Zap me here. I had a bit of a problem with the wifi myself, the other day.” stephenoram.net/fitzrovia-fu... Image: Egor Kunovsky

“They’ve made it again, Which means the globe’s still working” Ted Hughes Yes!!! Swifts over my street this evening, north London. tbh, scarily earlier than we usually expect them. #swifts

Great day at #Facilitate2025 today. Connecting, learning and having fun. Looking forward to tomorrow.

Donating a bag of pre-loved mini-figures for the not-a-raffle community fundraiser at #Facilitate2025. Contents care of my lovely nephew who had a clear-out.

Got this excellent surprise present from Figiverse creator Camilla Gordon at #Facilitate2025: a bespoke on-brand bag for my minifigures. 🙏🏼

Great to be at #Facilitate2025 where @alex.drawnalism.com is enjoying some learning through play!