A nice read in Saturday's Travel Guardian about the joys of combining cycling and storytelling in Fife, by Kevin Rushby. I'll shut up about cycling now, and get back on my feet!
In 2007, I started writing about journeys in which I followed previous walkers: drovers, writers, servants bearing laundry, my own father, among others. I'm fascinated by the paths and marks they've left behind them, both in the land and in memory. Walking is both a tool and a subject in my own writing; writing a way of being truly alive as I walk, and reliving each journey in words.
best foot books
- Find out about Linda's best foot books inpsired by walking here
- 'The Heart in our Soles' - a barefoot walk through a Kenyan village published in Algebra
- Linda's website (you can buy books here)
- How to order 'Cleave' in which Linda's walk-essay 'Cailliche' is anthologised
- the dangers of the afternoon stroll
- Creative Writing - Creating Writers - Linda's other blog
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- Linda Cracknell
- I'm a writer of fiction, creative non-fiction and radio drama. Recent books include a novel, Call of the Undertow, and non-fiction Doubling Back: ten paths trodden in memory. Both are grounded in particular landscapes - a big interest of mine. I teach and facilitate creative writing in a variety of settings at home and abroad. From July 2012- June 2016 I was writer in residence with the Sick Kids Friends Foundation in Edinburgh collaborating with illustrator Cate James - see All Write. I am currently writer-in-residence at George Watson's College - see THE DOOR.
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