Sound Walk Stories Sunday: ‘Write About Walking A/way’ showcase

Richard Westcott

I’m now retired from a fulfilled lifetime of NHS doctoring, with no longer any excuse for not writing poetry. I still live where I worked – why move, when it’s North Devon, near the sea, on the edge of Exmoor? – a wonderfully varied landscape I...

Kevin Cheeseman

Retired, retiring, and trying to write.

I am a retired biochemist who lives in Buckinghamshire with my wife, Annie. I write flash fiction and short stories, and my pieces have won or been placed in competitions run by Writing Magazine, Writers’ Forum, 1000 Word Challenge and Wild Atlantic Wri...

Rosaleen Lynch

(United Kingdom / Ireland)

Rosaleen Lynch, is an Irish community worker and writer in the East End of London with words in various journals and prize shortlists, is a winner of the HISSAC and the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize, has work selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 2023 and has a col...

Shani Cadwallender

Shani Cadwallender is a poet, teacher and PhD researcher at Birkbeck UoL, whose interests are in trees, identity and ecopoetics.

Christopher Cuninghame

East London based writer, occasionally heard musician when the windows are open, and traveller whether or not.

Lorraine Collins

(United Kingdom)

Lorraine and her husband travel extensively in their VW campervan, which is a rich source for people watching and story ideas. She belongs to a writing group who met in 2018 on a Guardian writing course and continue to meet for wine, food, merriment and cr...

Amelia Hodsdon

(United Kingdom)

I work with words for a living, to learn, and for fun. I walk in the gaps. Originally from Cheltenham, I recently moved back after 25 years in London, and am relearning the local landscape. Words for a living: editing and proofreading, formerly for the Gua...

Ricky Abbott

"Fail again, fail better." (United Kingdom)

If I identify with any logo, it is hyphens: British-Canadian, white and black-Caribbean. It conforms with categories where it needs to, but with mild protest.

Jan Martin

Illustrator and writer living in Somerset UK

Artist and writer based in Somerset UK, where I walk the coast, hills and woodlands finding inspiration for my visual and written work.

Eilín de Paor

(Ireland)

Eilín de Paor lives in Dublin, Ireland. Alongside poetry, she works in services for people with disabilities and is studying towards a PhD in that field. Her poems have appeared in The Stony Thursday Book, Banshee, Skylight 47, The Frogmore Papers, 14, Ab...

isabella mead

(United Kingdom)

Isabella Mead is Head of Learning at The Story Museum in Oxford. Her debut pamphlet, Dear Rwanda, was published by Live Canon in 2023. 

R. M. Francis

R. M. Francis is a writer from the Black Country. He completed his PhD at the University of Wolverhampton, where he is lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing. He's the author of five poetry Chapbook collections: Transitions; (The Black Light Engine ...

Andrew Stuck

Co-founder of walk · listen · create (United Kingdom)

Andrew is the founder of the Museum of Walking, created to bring people together and to make and showcase walking pieces and performances. Andrew also is a podcaster, interviewing creative people who use walking as a catalyst for their practice. Talking Wa...