From lines submitted, we've made a Scottish People's Address to World Leaders. Fellow poet Niall Campbell joined me for an inaugural reading at Push The Boat Out. The poem will be launched on Friday, St Andrew's Day.

Come on writers still time to enter - looking forward to reading your submissions Paperboats Writers Scottish Book Trust Argaty Red Kites Leonie Charlton Kathleen Jamie Katty Baird #naturewriting

If you're in or around Edinburgh on morning of 23rd November, please join us.

A Day for Nature University of Stirling tomorrow including launch of Paperboats Writers new e-zine. Free and full of good things and fabulous people including Polly Pullar Argaty Red Kites Rebecca Smith Kathleen Jamie Leonie Charlton #ClimateCrisis #NatureWriting

Writer and scholar Patrick Curry described joy as ‘radical and deep enchantment’. Let’s say today you make a #paperboat or two, and they’re folded around joy, what words could they hold? Some of mine might be flow, story, snow line, goldfinch, north.

- Leonie Charlton

Come along to Stirling for this wonderful free event: A Day for Nature.
Discussion panel with Polly Pullar, Rebecca Smith & Argaty Red Kites
Launch of the #Paperboats Zine Issue Two. Readings by Kathleen Jamie, Karen Lloyd & Leonie Charlton. Art workshop with Orla Stevens

Brilliant afternoon Eastgate Theatre Peebles Wild Writers Festival, hearing Anna Fleming bringing together rock, language, social history, embodiment and more. Fest continues this eve & tomorrow inc events w Jenny Tough Leonie Charlton Malachy Tallack if you're in the area

we waited, backs to the hail, and watched the glow of lichen #January

Great to see the paperback of #AlongTheAmberRoute in Wanderlust magazine's travel books of the year. And congratulations to Mary Novakovich and Leonie Charlton whose terrific books are also on the list.

I’m looking forward to this - I had a baby in Alexandria some 23 years ago!

In the woods today with these three beloveds. It’s been a while…‘The real problem isn’t our limited time (…) it is that we’ve unwittingly inherited, and feel pressured to live by, a troublesome set of ideas about how to use our limited time’ - #FourThousandWeeks

We have a great Book Week Scotland programme for all ages including James Oswald, Leonie Charlton, Victoria Williamson, Clare Hunter and Etienne Kubwabo. Get more info & book your tickets at: west-dunbarton.gov.uk/libraries/book…
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James Oswald
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Clare Hunter

“Rural communities help keep Scotland sustainable. Why is that obvious reality so hard to grasp?”

I agree!

Rewilding won’t save the natural world

But rewilding + restoration + sustainable farming + increased protected areas + pollution control + reduced exploitation of natural resources + global equity, just might

Looking forward to this event, to hearing a range of the work in this beautiful issue being read, and to reading a bit myself 🙏🦌⭐️

Very much looking forward to this 🍂⭐️

This has made me so happy tonight 💚