Ann de Forest hosts Walking America – writers in conversation. Practitioners and teachers of writings on walking, the guests include, Christine Hume, co-editor of Traversals: A Folio on Walking for The Hopkins Review, and two contributing writers, Nabil Kashyap and Will Zhang.
2024-02-28 21:00
Online
Walking America is a quarterly series of conversations that brings together American writers whose books share common themes. Introduced by Ann de Forest, Christine Hune, Nabil Kashyap and Willa Zhang will be in conversation.
28 Apr, 2024
Shortlisted in the Neighbourhood Narratives writing competition - Carrying the Trees to Clark Park - Ann de Forest
3 Apr, 2024
Like most people on this planet, I have been walking my entire life. Having grown up in Los Angeles, I’ve also logged plenty of time in automobiles, but I’ve been in fortunate to live most of my adult life in a famously “walkable city,” Philadelphia, where my feet have become my preferred routine means of getting around, for both utility and pleasure.
2023-11-29 21:00
Online
Join two American authors as they trade tips and share insights about writing and walking at walk · listen · create’s Walking America. For our inaugural conversation on November 29, we are delighted to welcome authors Neil King Jr. and Tom Zoellner, to discuss their epic walks through America’s divided political landscapes in search of common ground.
WeWalkPHL and Walk Around Philadelphia
2024-01-15 16:00
Cynwyd Heritage Trail, Bala Cynwyd, PA, USA
WeWalkPHL, Walk Around Philadelphia host a ~2hr walk on the Cynwyd Heritage Trail towards the Manayunk Bridge on Martin Luther King Day
2024-04-17 20:00
Online
Walking America is a quarterly series of conversations that brings together American writers whose books share common themes. Ann de Forest, writer and editor of the anthology Ways of Walking(New Door Books, 2022), hosts and moderates the lively exchange with Antonia Malchik and Jonathon Stalls.
Friends of the Falls of Schuylkill Library
2023-10-18 22:30
Falls of Schuylkill Library, 3501 Midvale Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19129, U.S.
The Schuylkill Falls Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia presents an evening of readings from contributors to Ways of Walking (New Door Books, 2022), an anthology that asks "is walking a subversive act?"
2022-07-05 15:30
Online
Is walking a subversive act? For the authors of the new book Ways of Walking, it can be. A walk · listen · café broadcast live from Girona, during the International Encounters "Walking Arts and Relational Geographies" with the editor Ann de Forest and author Nathaniel Popkin opening a discussion about the subversive act of walking. Other authors Justin Coffin, Kabria Rogers, and Kalela Williams, all contributing to the book above, will be joining in from Philadelphia.
The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education
2023-03-01 23:00
Philadelphia, PA, USA
What does it mean to walk an edge? Edges can be peripheral. Edges can be liminal. Edges can be edgy. Six writers will read selections from Ways of Walking and discuss the edges they have walked, both literal and metaphorical.
2022-09-22 04:30
Café Slatkine, Rue des Chaudronniers 5, 1204 Genève Switzerland
New Door Books invites you to an evening workshop on travel writing at Café Slatkine, Geneva's "bar littéraire" led by Ann de Forest, Nathaniel Popkin, and Paula Read, writers from the acclaimed anthology WAYS OF WALKING.
