BOG TIME! Anna Chilvers and I are running a 3-day writing retreat at Cober Hill. Expect workshops, readings, time to write on your own and with others, a visit to an extraordinary bog, and 11 acres of private grounds with a secret path to the sea! Full board and single occupancy starts at £405.

The latest Substack by Anna Chilvers and me, on Wuthering Heights, relationships, moorland ecology, and the fight to save the moors. Includes news of our next Reading Bogwise guest, Brontë expert Claire O’Callaghan. Read the post here, for free. blogsandbogs.substack.com/p/on-the-wil...

Join me tomorrow morning, for an hour of writing on urban wilderness…how the natural world’s beauty resilient pushes up through the cracks in walls, pavements, in derelict buildings. Just like us! Book your place here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing- or scan the QR code on the picture.

In tomorrow’s Go Wild on Fridays session with me, we’ll be writing about BATS!🦇 Day tickets available for £10, as well as tickets for the rest of the course for £41.50 (5 workshops for £8.30 each!). Join us tomorrow for our final Go Wild session of 2026. Book here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

FINAL CALL! Tonight, 7, online. Cool off with us at Reading Bogwise, where Polly Atkin will read from her new collection. £5 per ticket (free for B(l)og Substack subscribers) and recording available if you miss it due to melting or combusting! Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emergency-...

Read my Substack article ‘Neurodivergent in Nature’ — featuring writing exercises for you to try out, and a link to where you can book your place on the final exciting sessions of Wild Writing June 2026. shawandmoore.substack.com/p/neurodiver...

My latest Substack, on Polly Atkin’s brilliant new collection Emergency Dream (Seren), which she’ll be reading from, tonight, at 7pm, at Reading Bogwise. Read the article here (it includes details on how to book your place at Reading Bogwise tonight!): shawandmoore.substack.com/p/emergency-...

Yeah, you think this is hot but you should have been there in 1976. I saw the postman spontaneously combust on our step at 7am. We made jam from ladybirds. Water evaporated as soon as you turned the tap on. Did we whinge about it? No. We just slathered ourselves in lard and played out for 16 hours.

Hot, isn't it? Tomorrow, there will be a parliamentary debate on the Seventh Carbon Budget. This would commit the UK to cutting carbon emissions by 87% by 2040, representing a step change in our government's ambition on climate action. Ask your MP to attend and vote in favour here:

I can’t WAIT for tomorrow’s Wild Writing June workshop on ‘Queer Nature’, with me. I’m planning it all out now, and I don’t think I’ve been this excited about leading a workshop for a very long time. 9–10AM TOMORROW. Day/full course tickets available. Book here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

Cool off with us tomorrow night, at Reading Bogwise session, with Polly Atkin, who will be reading from her outstanding new collection Emergency Dream, newly published by Seren. It’s set to be a beautiful evening. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emergency-... or scan the QR code on the picture.

Tomorrow’s Wild Writing June session, with me, where we’ll explore ‘Restoration’ through our writing. Feel free to come as a one-off…but we’re now offering all NINE remaining generative nature writing workshops at a bumper price of £41.50. View all details, here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

Curlews are one of our most endangered birds - critically endangered in the UK, close to extinction in Ireland. We wrote this group poem today in Wild Writing. All are welcome at our daily online workshops through June: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

Nine online Wild Writing Workshops, £41.50, starting this Monday. thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

An accumulation of shards. Collecting with mosaic-making in mind gives me a different appreciation of these broken pieces: the shattered glaze is a landscape all of its own. Feathers, deltas, wings in flight.

Join me for tomorrow’s Wild Writing session, on the curlew, bird of the wild coast and sweeping moor. Day tickets available, as well as tickets for the remainder of the course. Book your place here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing- or scan the QR code on the picture.

Join us on the 24th for our next Reading Bogwise session. We’ll spend our evening with Polly Atkin — poet, nature writer, and disability activist. She’ll be reading from her collection Emergency Dream, published only last month by Seren Book your place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emergency-...

All nature writers are ‘fun guys’… The topic for tomorrow’s Wild Writing June: Go Wild on Fridays session (with me) is…drum roll please…’FUNGI: THE HIDDEN KINGDOM’! Let’s explore the hidden aspects of fungus.🍄🍄‍🟫 Day, week and month tickets available. Book here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

FINAL CALL! It’s “The World of Moss” — we’re all just living in it! Join Anna Chilvers and me tomorrow at 10am for our next Writing Bogwise session. Expect fascinating facts, generative writing prompts, and all-around moss wonder. Book your place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1990041216...

Moss as organism and teacher, pioneer, healer, ancestor and future. Discover and create stories and poetry about this ancient, world-building plant. The workshop is recorded, and you’ll be sent copies of the writing prompts, links and references. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1990041216...

Week 3 of Wild Writing June 2026 commences tomorrow! Here’s what we’ve got planned. From bears to bogs, there’s something for every nature lover. Join us from 9–10AM, EVERY DAY IN JUNE. Day, week, month tickets available. Book here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing- or scan the QR code on the pic.

Hello, BlueSky. Fancy writing about clouds? Well, you can in tomorrow’s Wild Writing June session, with me. Join us for Cloud Appreciation, tomorrow at 9am, when we’ll be exploring clouds in all their glory and moodiness. Day/week/month tickets available. Book here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

We’ve got a hare-raising Wild Writing session planned for tomorrow! Due to unforeseen circumstances, we’re going wild on Saturday rather than Friday this week and we’d love it if you joined us. Day, week, month tickets available, here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing- or scan the QR code on the pic.

Do you follow the path…or stray? Tomorrow’s Wild Writing session will be with me, on ‘Walking the Wild’ — how paths can lead us to our best creative work. Month and week tickets available, but you’re welcome to join us on a one-off basis for this session. Book here thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

Join me for tomorrow’s Wild Writing session, when we’ll explore the relationship between biodiversity and neurodiversity, and why they need each other. It’s set to be a fun, fascinating session for writers of all neurotypes. Book here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing- or scan the QR code on the pic.

Wild Writing Day 7: Miriam prompted us with “Write about closely observing, ‘zooming in’, paying ‘radical attention’ to something however ordinary” so I had a look at recent photos on my phone.

Ready for Week 2 of Wild Writing June? We are. Here’s the exciting stuff we’ve got planned. Week tickets available — join us for seven great sessions of generative prompts to get you scribbling and celebrating nature. Book here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing- or scan the QR code on the picture.

Day 6 of Wild Writing. Here’s my response to yesterday’s session on creepy crawlies. There’s still time for you to join us. Day and week tickets available, with heaps of exciting sessions coming up. Let’s get you writing. Book here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing- or scan the QR code on the pic.

One of the sparrow chicks who lives in my bathroom vent. I used to have a ventilation fan, but I switched it off when the sparrows indicated they would like to live there. Now the fan is full of twigs and my bathroom is full of the sound of baby sparrows.

Tomorrow’s Wild Writing session will be on the Art of Survival, from bushcraft and treehouses to creative writing. Day tickets available, as well as week tickets for 7 brilliant generative writing workshops. Click the link to book. I’m excited for this one. thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

Very excited for tomorrow’s Go Wild On Fridays session. This week we’ll be writing about CREEPY CRAWLIES…but what about next week? Send us your suggestions! Day tickets available for tomorrow, or indeed, any day of the course…week tickets available too. Book here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

Tomorrow: On Thursday 4th June at 3.30: I'll deliver an online workshop: “Woman, Life, Freedom: Writing Against Silence” from 3.30-5pm. Tickets are £5 or pay-what you feel: womanlifefreedomworkshop.eventbrite.co.uk

My spiny friend invites you to tomorrow’s Wild Writing session, ‘Consider the Hedgehog’, where we’ll write about these very important creatures. Day tickets available; week tickets are available too if you’d like to join us for 7 great writing workshops. Book here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

Did you know we’re offering day tickets for Wild Writing? Tomorrow, I'll host “We are All Lichen Now”. We’ll use poetry and creative non-fiction to examine this fascinating, overlooked life form. Click this link for more details — and to join us! thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

Join me this Thursday for my online poetry workshop “Woman, Life, Freedom” from 3.30–5pm. Showcasing the voices of women poets writing from Iran and the diaspora, we’ll examine the role poetry can play in supporting survival, resistance and hope. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/woman-life...

1 DAY until Wild Writing 2026! On the eve of what will be such a special month of writing, here’s my latest Substack. It’s not too late for you to join us for Wild Writing. Come for the whole month, or for individual sessions. All details in the article. shawandmoore.substack.com/p/return-to-...

2 DAYS TO GO until Wild Writing June. 30 days of prompts and exercises. 30 days of celebrating the best nature writing out there and using it to inspire and develop our own. 30 days of exploring the natural world without having to leave our writing desks. Book here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

3 DAYS TO GO until Wild Writing June 2026! With 30 days of generative prompts inspired by the best nature writing out there, let’s make your writing bloom. Miriam Darlington, The Writing School and I can’t wait to welcome you to the Zoom room. Book your place here. thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

5 DAYS TO GO until Wild Writing June 2026! With wonderful selected nature writings to inspire us, we’ll fill our pages with fresh, exciting new work. Miriam Darlington and I (in partnership with the Writing School) can’t wait to welcome you. Book your place here. thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

Last shout for "Meetings with Mosses" at 7pm tonight - cool your mind with the cool green of moss as bryologist and author Johnny Turner shares his passion for sphagnum, and the overlapping worlds of ecology and neurodivergence.

In tomorrow evening’s Reading Bogwise session, Johnny Turner — ecologist, bryologist and writer — will share his deep passion and knowledge. Prepare to meet mosses in a way you never have before, and to discover what they can teach us. Book your place here. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meeting-wi...

on wildflowers and transphobia: the best way to kill a flower is to take away sunlight and rain. But flowers grow regardless of what guidance is issued, what judgements are passed, what anyone thinks of us.

‘Wild is…’ What does ‘wild’ mean to you? Comment below. Let‘s write a group poem together. Wild Writing 2026, led by Miriam Darlington and me, starts at 9am on 1st June, in partnership with The Writing School. Let’s make it the best one yet. Book your place here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

Learn how mosses can be cute (even if you knew that already). Join us on 26th May for our next Reading Bogwise session, with the excellent Johnny Turner, whose comprehensive bog knowledge and passion featured in The Book of Bogs. Book your place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meeting-wi...

‘Has it really been hanging in there all this while, in sulphured wind and rain, waiting to be discovered?’ Reading Bogwise is back on 26th May, 6–7pm, where Johnny Turner will share his passion for, and deep knowledge of, mosses. Book your place here. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meeting-wi...

Bodies, histories, treasures and mysteries. Our peatlands are ready to reveal their truths — let’s listen to them. And write about them! Join us TOMORROW MORNING for at 10AM (yes, this is the FINAL CALL!) for our next Writing Bogwise session. Book here. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deep-peat-...

The bog is calling. Two more sleeps until the next Writing Bogwise, ‘Deep Peat: The Bog as a Living Archive’. Click here to book your place at what will be a fabulously fun, peaty, generative writing workshop. shawandmoore.substack.com/p/chronic-co...

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deep-peat-... You can also find the link here.😊

Wild Writing with Clare Shaw and Miriam Darlington: a different wild topic every day in June. Book now, here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing-

I've written lots about my mental health, but it feels, weirdly, more exposing to write about physical health difficulties. Anyway, here's a thing I wrote about hypermobility and the impact it's had on my life. shawandmoore.substack.com/p/chronic-co...