@pollyrowena.bsky.social on nature writing, chronic illness, and the controversy surrounding Raynor Winn’s memoir, The Salt Path.

We're gearing up for Seafest tomorrow at St Bees beach, who's coming along? 🌊🦑🦭🐚🌞 Register to join us here (it's free!) 👇 https://bit.ly/SeaFest2025 You can also just pop along tomorrow between 10am and 4pm if you're not sure of your plans just yet!

Oooh, a rare & precious chance to get the splendid Ange Harker's autograph! Plus apparently you get a wonderful guidebook packed with potential adventures on the newest national path, thrown in at no extra charge.

25% off selected pre-orders at @waterstones.bsky.social till Thursday - inc. #WalkingTheKCIIIECPNorthWest & 2 other #Cicerone guides for the #PeakDistrict by @andrewmccloy.bsky.social & South #Devon by #HollyScrivener! Use code SUMMER25 by end of Thursday: linktr.ee/ange_harker #WPreorder

Pleased to announce that all pre-orders of my #Cicerone Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path: North West guidebook from @samreadbookseller.bsky.social will be signed!! ✍️ You can find the Sam Read website via linktr.ee/ange_harker & at www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/pre-... #KCIIIECP

Breaking news for Cumbria Literary Culture! @postalpathsguy.bsky.social accused of knocking off The Salt Path! @thetimes.com - Alan Cleaver is a true original and does meticulous research on the places & people he writes about. Let's make #ThePostalPaths a bestseller instead! archive.ph/7z9PD

So proud of @catmitchell17.bsky.social and @pennyauthor.bsky.social for making a #Disability focus issue of @thebookseller.com happen after 3 years hiatus. So heartening to see such brilliant books by disabled, D/deaf, neurodivergent writers being published across genres, as in my preview. #BookSky

Hello! Publishers! Writers! I have everything that's been submitted for this and there's c. 20 books over the entire year, not including the few I know about which didn't get submitted through @thebookseller.com, and NO poetry at all? I know there are more books by disabled writers coming than this!

Join Disability Arts Online as we launch Towards New Worlds Digital, the pilot exhibition for our new online gallery space dis_place. 📆21 May 📍Online 💷Free disabilityarts.online/events/towar...

A beginner's guide to map reading. Click the images to find four lines on an OS Explorer map which you are legally allowed to walk on... @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social

Lots of very high profile UK biologists sign a letter saying that biological sex isn't binary or immutable and that the Supreme Court's ruling is scientifically wrong! We really need to hammer home how the anti-trans side is anti-science (you can add your name still if you are in a relevant field)

I just signed off on the paperback cover for The Edge of Solitude! Going to print later this week, and out on 3rd July! Available to pre-order from wherever you normally buy books, but especially from @samreadbookseller.bsky.social, aka my lovely local indie: www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/pre-...

YES.

Lots of opportunities here - including a £2k commission to create a unique piece of artwork marking 25 yrs of advocacy and support in opening up arts and culture to deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audiences. Please share :)

The Supreme Court sided with FWS. But it didn’t hear from a single trans person. This ruling sets a dangerous precedent and erases trans women from protections. It puts trans rights back 20 years. We won't stop fighting for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️

A thread in which I try to show some of the harmful practical effects on the quality of its analysis of the Supreme Court's appalling and delegitimating decision to exclude all trans voices from a judgment with profound effects on trans people's lives.

“Fuck your single-sex spaces and fuck your Supreme Court. If I see you calling the police on a trans person in a public restroom I will personally flush your phone down the bog whilst pretending it’s Wes Streeting’s head.”

I thought I’d posted the video yesterday!🤦‍♀️ #Frogs #Whernside #YorkshireDales

FROGGOS! At least 70, near top of #Whernside, @yorkshiredales.org.uk

Seven years today since we first introduced you to this absolute unit.

LOOK at this absolute BEAUTY!! 💕📘❄️ The paperback cover of #TheEdgeOfSolitude is here! I love how @canongate.co.uk have kept the essential beauty of the hardback, but modified - and how the text just pops! 👀 Out on 3rd July - preorder from your favourite bookshop! buythebook.online/the-edge-of-...

“I can’t sleep, I’m so scared.” My report in tomorrow’s Guardian on the disability benefit cuts “domino effect”: losing PIP will see unpaid carers lose their benefits too - pulling away two main strands of a family’s income at once. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Teen Vogue: remains braver than almost any other news outlet at this time.

Brilliant to be back in the big #fells yesterday - it’s been a while & not sure how long it’s gonna take to recover but the #VitaminD top-up is pulling me through for the moment! (That and chips.) #Langdale #EskPike #Bowfell #LakeDistrict #Wainwrights

I've seen toads out and about along our coast, and now bees as well!! Things are waking up, spring is on its way 😎❤️

Glorious day and already T-shirt #weather above #Cartmel!

⚡dadafest.bsky.social has revealed its 2025 festival programme which marks the Liverpool-based disability and Deaf arts-led organisation’s 40th anniversary. disabilityarts.online/magazine/new...

Don’t worry #Lesotho, we’re not all ignorant. Pics from Sept 2022, on a three-day trek with amazing local hospitality and guides; in the arid season between winter snows and summer greens. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On the flip side, hello and fucking hell to this view of the relentlessly handsome #Dentdale 😍

And a big “FUCKING HELL!!!” to this lovely gentleman too — who might wish to consider, when hurtling down a hill at full speed yelling blue murder, despite a walker in full view, that deaf people are — would you believe it — actually allowed to go for walks too.

It’s #Ingleton #Pantomime weekend! Finally saw it in full last night after catching snippets at rehearsal: congrats to the whole team on a fabulous show 🎉 Pics are from last night, dress rehearsal & a peek at the making of Hetty and Willie’s cakes, which was an absolute joy! @yorkshiredales.org.uk

When one of your satirical pieces breaks Google

Two of the very best Places keeping each other company in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social shop - and a #TimBird on view from the door! 🌊 @herdyshepherd.bsky.social @noreenmasud.bsky.social @averyhill.bsky.social

If the cycle has more life after you eat than it had before, there is a net gain of life That’s not true of plant crops monocultures - it’s absolutely true of grazing ecology well managed with habitat restoration

It’s impossible to eat in a way that doesn’t involve death for other creatures So my ethics are that the cycle and system must be healthy Vegans aren’t the only ones with beliefs - and frankly often have pretty weakly-thought-through ideas

Would it be ok for somebody to walk into my studio and take a piece of artwork off the wall without my permission and sell it? That's generative AI without remunerating creators who hold copyright to their work. #ArtSky #writing #photography

10 DAYS before MM is available in paperback Preorder now #BookSky #naturewriting 'An anthology to treasure and return to' ELINOR CLEGHORN 'Uniquely compelling, dynamic and powerful' LUCY JONES 'Deeply affecting' TOM SHAKESPEARE 'Promises to change the landscape of nature writing' LIZZIE HUXLEY-JONES

Cracking flashback to some of my earliest and most brutal #NatureWriting upon finding these smashed-up snails today. #PoorLisa

Enormous congratulations to @ange-harker.bsky.social, who has been working on this amazing guide book for as long as I have known her. Out 30th Sept - get your pre-orders in now! 🥾

Very proud to be a regional finalist for the Independent Bookshop of the Year once more. It may be #TheNibbies 35th anniversary year, and Sam Read Bookseller's 138th, but it is judged on @likewinterblue.bsky.social and @pollyrowena.bsky.social's 1st full year of stewardship, so extra special to us.

Dear reader, I went to #Almanby 🍦

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If anyone notices my gaze growing faraway in meetings today, this is where the rest of my mind will be.... 🥾

COVER REVEAL 🎉 Been a long time in the making but thank you #CiceronePress for commissioning me back in 2018 to write a guide to the brand new #KingCharlesIIIEnglandCoastPath in the north west: 367 miles from Scotland to Wales. It's out on 30th September and you can pre-order now! ☺️

COVER REVEAL 🎉 Been a long time in the making but thank you #CiceronePress for commissioning me back in 2018 to write a guide to the brand new #KingCharlesIIIEnglandCoastPath in the north west: 367 miles from Scotland to Wales. It's out on 30th September and you can pre-order now! ☺️

Being paid to go to the seaside once in a while is great but sometimes I get to go on the #SettleCarlisle line from #Ribblehead to #Carlisle for meetings.

Our Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve is a great place to look and listen for birds 🐦 You can even watch the birds using the feeders in the car park from your car 👀 (though we do recommend getting out to have a look round!). Find visiting info here 👇 www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/nature-reser...

A (somewhat) handy guide 🦉😄 #Birds #BirdID #Owls

Really enjoyed meeting loads of other #Cicerone authors & publishing team this weekend - more news on my contribution to the portfolio soon but in the meantime was supercool to be able to present a little about how we use #GIS software at #NaturalEngland to create the #EnglandCoastPath #KCIIIECP 😊

Really enjoyed meeting loads of other #Cicerone authors & publishing team this weekend - more news on my contribution to the portfolio soon but in the meantime was supercool to be able to present a little about how we use #GIS software at #NaturalEngland to create the #EnglandCoastPath #KCIIIECP 😊