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The Clearing
Bridport, Dorset, United Kingdom
Aim
To publish a new collection of place and nature writing that celebrates over 10 years of Little Toller's online journal THE CLEARING
"The Clearing has been such a guiding light to me on my journey through writing, living and loving. A space that, in many ways, feels like a mythical, magical table that we all sit around together. There is room for us all there - human and other than human; no matter our backgrounds - this table welcomes every single one of us." Kerri ní Dochartaigh
On 16th August, 2013, Little Toller Books began publishing an online journal called The Clearing. It was started by a group of writers and poets who were studying at Exeter University, with the aim of offering a dedicated space to explore and celebrate landscapes, finding distinctive, sometimes startling voices and visions of places, be they rural, urban, suburban, modern, prehistoric, industrial or post-industrial, fantastical or natural.
Since then, The Clearing has grown an audience around the world, supported writing projects across the UK and helped emerging writers at the early stages of their publishing journey. Along the way, the rotating editors of The Clearing have collaborated with hundreds of writers and published over 400 essays, poems, occasional podcasts, interviews and films, creating a rich archive of writing and thinking about our world.
Little Toller would like to celebrate The Clearing by publishing a book that draws from this body of work, featuring essays and poetry from a wide range of established and emerging writers across they UK and further afield. A decade in the making, please join us in supporting The Clearing and giving these voices the opportunity to see their work in bookshops and in readers' hands.
This first collection will be called GOING TO GROUND, and we hope that a spring 2024 publication will pave the way for future editions of The Clearing project.
Contributors include: Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Tim Dee, Nancy Campbell, Amina Khan, Ann Lingard, Tim Hannigan, Martin Maudsley, Alex Woodcock, Louisa Adjoa Parker, Eleanor Anstruther, Kathleen Jamie, Nic Wilson, JC Niala, Elspeth Wilson, Baz Nichols, Chris Baker, Alex Diggins, David Higgins, David Bradford, Raine Geoghegan, Jack Thacker, Graham Mort, Susannah Walker, Jane Hughes, Mary Malyon, Jen Jones, Meriel Harrison.
This project successfully funded on 5th February 2024