Rosalind Davies
@terradivina.bsky.social
Teaching because writing is lonely. Writing because teaching is hard. #memoir #nature #belief
5 miles from the nearest road, the head of the West Dart river is just wide enough to stand in. I was very excited to hear it and get eyes on once the reeds were parted. #dartmoor
August 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
5 miles from the nearest road, the head of the West Dart river is just wide enough to stand in. I was very excited to hear it and get eyes on once the reeds were parted. #dartmoor
This is so helpful! www.ourdailyread.com/2025/08/the-...
The end of the road? What The Salt Path scandal means for the nature memoir | OurDailyRead
It wasn’t the first hit memoir to tell a story of redemption inspired by the great outdoors – but could it become one of the last? Authors and publishers assess the damage
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August 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This is so helpful! www.ourdailyread.com/2025/08/the-...
We stand in internationalist solidarity with Palestinian farmers and their right to food sovereignty. www.foei.org/friends-of-t...
FoEI condemns the assault on Palestine's national seed bank
The Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committee (UAWC)´s Seed Bank in Hebron is the only national seed bank in Palestine.
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August 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
We stand in internationalist solidarity with Palestinian farmers and their right to food sovereignty. www.foei.org/friends-of-t...
Jo in the Water: coming to cinemas this Autumn www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/jo-in-the-...
Jo in the Water: coming to cinemas this Autumn
WOW so close to our target! THANK YOU ALL! Do contribute if you can as we seek to make a really impactful film.
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August 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Jo in the Water: coming to cinemas this Autumn www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/jo-in-the-...
A wonderful new walk will be launched in Totnes on 14 September southhamsway.org.uk
July 31, 2025 at 7:20 AM
A wonderful new walk will be launched in Totnes on 14 September southhamsway.org.uk
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See what your story could win! Your memoir doesn't need to be finished to enter our Memoir Award. Open internationally to writers 16+ writing in English. Deadline day 30 September. All entry info at bit.ly/memoir-award
July 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
See what your story could win! Your memoir doesn't need to be finished to enter our Memoir Award. Open internationally to writers 16+ writing in English. Deadline day 30 September. All entry info at bit.ly/memoir-award
#autofiction as a genre doesn’t exist. ‘You will not find autofiction as a category on Amazon, nor does it exist as a subject heading in the industry’s BISAC categorization system. If an author has written a work of autofiction, the book is a novel. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Autofiction: What It Is and What It Isn’t
Whether writing autobiographical fiction or memoir, writers must own their truths.
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July 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#autofiction as a genre doesn’t exist. ‘You will not find autofiction as a category on Amazon, nor does it exist as a subject heading in the industry’s BISAC categorization system. If an author has written a work of autofiction, the book is a novel. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
This is worth a read for the jokes, the puns and the artwork. It’s also a relief from the ongoing niggle that the Raynor Winn affair has left me with. What is truth in a memoir? Can there ever be truth in a memoir? Is autofiction a better category? davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-salt-p...
The Salt Path not taken?
And would it matter if it wasn't?
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July 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This is worth a read for the jokes, the puns and the artwork. It’s also a relief from the ongoing niggle that the Raynor Winn affair has left me with. What is truth in a memoir? Can there ever be truth in a memoir? Is autofiction a better category? davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-salt-p...
Looking forward to walking in the company of strangers on the Eden Way today devonpilgrim.org.uk/route/the-ed... #pilgrim #devon
The Eden Way ‣ Devon Pilgrim
Welcome to the beautiful Teign Valley, an Eden in Devon, combining the rugged hills of Dartmoor with rich farmland and the wooded banks of the river Teign.
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June 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Looking forward to walking in the company of strangers on the Eden Way today devonpilgrim.org.uk/route/the-ed... #pilgrim #devon
I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. (John Muir)
June 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. (John Muir)
Reading @bonnielj.bsky.social ‘Vanishing Landscapes’ at Rogantide has illuminated the annual beating the bounds ritual - an act that animated the bonds between people and land as they gathered around ‘gospel oaks’.
May 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Reading @bonnielj.bsky.social ‘Vanishing Landscapes’ at Rogantide has illuminated the annual beating the bounds ritual - an act that animated the bonds between people and land as they gathered around ‘gospel oaks’.
Reposted by Rosalind Davies
May 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Reposted by Rosalind Davies
1 week to go until Big Meadow Search 2025 gets underway. All welcome, you dont need to be an expert, just record the species you are confident to ID. You can enter data at bigmeadowsearch.co.uk/submit or email your list to bigmeadowsearch@gmail.com
May 25, 2025 at 6:47 AM
1 week to go until Big Meadow Search 2025 gets underway. All welcome, you dont need to be an expert, just record the species you are confident to ID. You can enter data at bigmeadowsearch.co.uk/submit or email your list to bigmeadowsearch@gmail.com
The desert spaces are places and moments of paradox: knowing amid the unknowing, refreshment in the parched places, life amid death, fecundity in the barrenness, midnight blooming, and acceptance of seasons. cac.org/daily-medita...
The Deserts in Our Lives
Author and podcaster Cassidy Hall explores the desert as a metaphor for difficult times in our lives: Sometimes desert conditions invite us to
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May 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The desert spaces are places and moments of paradox: knowing amid the unknowing, refreshment in the parched places, life amid death, fecundity in the barrenness, midnight blooming, and acceptance of seasons. cac.org/daily-medita...
If you are aligned with #quaker values, these are great roles
We're recruiting! Could you join us as Peace Lead, Head of Supporting Quaker Communities, Conference & Hospitality Assistant, or Interim Communications Officer?
Full details, including salaries, are available at: www.quaker.org.uk/jobs
Full details, including salaries, are available at: www.quaker.org.uk/jobs
Quakers in Britain: Job opportunities
Find a range of jobs with Quakers in Britain. With a 1:4 ratio between our highest and our lowest paid staff, we are a Living Wage employer.
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May 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
If you are aligned with #quaker values, these are great roles
2/2 find participating communities here www.britishpilgrimage.org/resources/su...
Our Rogation Sunday Campaign — The 2025 Participating Communities - British Pilgrimage Trust
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May 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
2/2 find participating communities here www.britishpilgrimage.org/resources/su...
1/2 From the Latin, rogare, meaning ask; rogation is the festival that marks the blessing of the land to bring forth good growth. Rooted in the Middle Ages, this tradition involves procession, outdoor prayer, and visiting sacred sites (e.g. wells, sacred trees, high places and landmark boulders).
Our Rogation Sunday Campaign — The 2025 Participating Communities - British Pilgrimage Trust
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May 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
1/2 From the Latin, rogare, meaning ask; rogation is the festival that marks the blessing of the land to bring forth good growth. Rooted in the Middle Ages, this tradition involves procession, outdoor prayer, and visiting sacred sites (e.g. wells, sacred trees, high places and landmark boulders).
Walkers, bikers, hikers and pilgrims - enter your best photo from the Via Francigena www.viefrancigene.org/en/take-part...
Take Part in the “Francigena Photo Contest 2025” - Via Francigena
To mark the arrival of summer, the much-loved Francigena Photo Contest 2025 returns – the favourite photography competition among pilgrims.
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May 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Walkers, bikers, hikers and pilgrims - enter your best photo from the Via Francigena www.viefrancigene.org/en/take-part...
The last leg of the Via Francigena, on the way to Rome. Read the 5th diary installment, marking the jubilee year. www.viefrancigene.org/vf-blog/the-...
The Via Francigena in Tuscany: the cradle of beauty - Via Francigena
We have reached the fifth chapter of our travel diary, this time exploring Tuscany: history, art, and gastronomy.
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May 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The last leg of the Via Francigena, on the way to Rome. Read the 5th diary installment, marking the jubilee year. www.viefrancigene.org/vf-blog/the-...
Photo featuring the back of my head. Not just Gramsci in the opening but you got called a bastard too. All endearing, stimulating and knowledgeable. Thank you.
Not many people open an interview by quoting Gramsci, but @georgemonbiot.bsky.social does. Dead chuffed to be in conversation with him today at the Restoring Nature festival in Totnes, chatting about cultural hegemony, The Lie of the Land, and campaigning on nature & land reform in England
May 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Photo featuring the back of my head. Not just Gramsci in the opening but you got called a bastard too. All endearing, stimulating and knowledgeable. Thank you.
I so enjoyed hearing @bonnielj.bsky.social talk about our body’s memory of its connection to the land. A poignant note within a celebration of practical knowledge and human labour.
May 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I so enjoyed hearing @bonnielj.bsky.social talk about our body’s memory of its connection to the land. A poignant note within a celebration of practical knowledge and human labour.
Today at @sharphamtrust.bsky.social with authors @bonnielj.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Poppy Okotcha and @sophiepavs.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Today at @sharphamtrust.bsky.social with authors @bonnielj.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Poppy Okotcha and @sophiepavs.bsky.social
ICYMI: I’m a mixed-race neurodivergent woman, so I would love women like me to read it, says Kristie De Garis ( @kristiedegaris.bsky.social ) on her memoir. Drystone will be published in August 2025.
Read the interview here 👇 #BookSky
Read the interview here 👇 #BookSky
Kristie De Garis: the Perthshire-based writer talks about how drystone walling helped her confront the past
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May 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
