Day 11 of walking the Pennine Way. The toughest 21 miles. ‘There’s something about the exhaustion, pushing your body to unaccustomed extremes, finding in them a sort of dream-like peace.’ Read today’s Substack post here: shawandmoore.substack.com/p/walking-th...

Walking the Pennine Way: Day 11

Dufton to Alston

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A week tomorrow! Join us for our next Writing Bogwise session, on RESTORATION. Let’s bring the wild back to our creative work. A workshop for the nature writers, the bog lovers, those enjoying my Pennine Way posts, and everyone else! Book your place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-bo...

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Day 10 of walking the Pennine Way. A very long and tiring day, but one I’ll remember for the rest of my life. Read today’s Substack post here: shawandmoore.substack.com/p/walking-th...

Walking the Pennine Way: Day 10

Middleton to Dufton

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The rest of day eight – and all of day nine – of walking the Pennine Way. Today's Substack discusses our need for common ground when we talk about the environment, as well as Hannah's Meadow, enormous Yorkshire puds, and what we found in our first bothy. shawandmoore.substack.com/p/walking-th...

Walking the Pennine Way: Days Eight and Nine

Tan Hill to Middleton

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Day seven (and a bit of eight) of walking the Pennine Way. On change, keeping going and weathering harsh environments. Featuring the melancholy thistle. Read my Substack post here: shawandmoore.substack.com/p/walking-th...

Walking the Pennine Way: Day Seven (and a bit of Eight)

Horton to Hardraw to Keld

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‘Grief is a heavy thing, but it is not unkind.’ Day six of walking the Pennine Way. A near-miss with a cow, scrambling up to a cave, planning for future solo walks after Niamh heads to uni, and reflecting on what my mum would have thought of this one. shawandmoore.substack.com/p/walking-th...

Walking the Pennine Way: Day Six

Malham to Horton-in-Ribblesdale

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Day five of walking the Pennine Way. On darkening skies and rain, and how walking opens you up to unexpected feelings.🌧️ Read my Substack post here: shawandmoore.substack.com/p/walking-th...

Walking the Pennine Way: Day Five

Ickornshaw to Malham via Gargrave

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‘Building on peat takes it from a carbon store to a carbon output.’ Day four of walking the Pennine Way. Today’s post looks at our responsibility to fight for the places we love. It features a wonderful poem by Lydia Macpherson — and one from me. Read here: shawandmoore.substack.com/p/walking-th...

Walking the Pennine Way: Day Four

Jack Bridge to Ickornshaw

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Day Three of the Pennine Way: on crowberries and blackberries, therapy, the resilience of land, and urban wilderness. Read my Substack post here: shawandmoore.substack.com/p/walking-th...

Walking the Pennine Way: Day Three

Standedge to Jack Bridge

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Day Two of the Pennine Way. Today’s post is on a much-needed kind second day. Featuring the effects of the recent wildfires, divided views on rewilding, restlessness, and my response to, “Listen to your body.” Read the article (and see the pictures) here: shawandmoore.substack.com/p/walking-th...

Walking the Pennine Way: Day Two

Crowden to Standedge (and Diggle)

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Niamh and I are walking the Pennine Way, and each day, I’ll be blogging over on Substack. We got off to a tough start on the (infamously) tough first day of the walk — but there was also peat, long golden grass, and bilberries. 🏞️🌾🌤️ Read the post here: shawandmoore.substack.com/p/walking-th...

Walking the Pennine Way: Day One

Eden to Crowden

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Join us for our next Writing Bogwise session, which will be on the subject of RESTORATION — the process of repairing damaged ecosystems. Come as a one off, or for the rest of the workshop series. Either way, you can book your place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-bo...

TOMORROW MORNING! Our first Wild Writing Sunday session, taking place on none other than World’s Most Wuthering Heights day, will appropriately focus on the moors and mountains of Wuthering Heights. There’s still time for you to join us. Book your place here: thewritingschool.co.uk/wild-writing...

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FINAL CALL for tomorrow morning’s workshop, where we’ll explore how peatlands offer us a new way of looking at writing and living. Expect carnivorous plants, generative writing prompts, and a whole lot of fun. I could not be more excited. Book your place here: bogwisequeerlandscapes.eventbrite.co.uk

Catch me this summer. For the full menu of every reading and every generative workshop I’m leading between now and the end of September, click here: shawandmoore.substack.com/p/on-the-roa... or scan the QR code on the picture of Kim and me, en route to Moniack Mhor.

On the road/ summer workshops

forthcoming events from Clare

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Our first Wild Writing Sundays online session is THIS SUNDAY — which also happens to be World’s Most Wuthering Heights Day. Come and explore Cathy and Heathcliff’s moors and mountains with us, and let them inspire your writing. Book your place here: thewritingschool.co.uk/wild-writing...

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MY NEW BOOK — I SAW WHAT I KNOW — WILL BE OUT IN JUNE 2027 WITH @bloodaxebooks! (I am shouting in capitals because I am excited). Preorder your copy here: www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...

‘Writing gives me community, friendship, a place to belong. I hope it gives you the same.’ My latest Substack, on poetry friendships, neurodivergence, and niche obsessions. Featuring Kim Moore’s Waffles the Hamster, and exciting upcoming events! Read here: shawandmoore.substack.com/p/a-sense-of...

A sense of belonging

on niche obsessions, neurodivergence, and the poetry community

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It's a fascinating and brilliant shortlist for the Forward Prizes -congratulations to all! Massive congratulations also to all the poets who made it onto the longlist. Biggest congratulations of all to everyone who wrote poetry this year, and did it with their whole heart.

"Queer Landscapes" - on 22nd July, Anna Chilvers and I will explore how bogs, moors and other peatlands suggest new possibilities for living and writing. I'm SO excited about this workshop! bogwisequeerlandscapes.eventbrite.co.uk

FINAL CALL FOR TONIGHT! A session on Tonight’s Reading Bogwise session is £5 (so sorry for previous errors saying it was £10, this was a mistake) or free to subscribers of b(l)og. For fans of moors, the Brontës, and Wuthering Heights. Book your place here: blogsandbogs.substack.com/p/wuthering-...

Anna Chilvers & I are running a retreat within minutes of the North Yorks Moors. Time to write, workshops, readings, a boggy outing, 11 acres of private grounds & a secret path to the sea! Full board & single rooms from £405. For info, contact annaruthchilvers@gmail.com or shaw_clare@hotmail.com

My latest b(l)og Substack. I’m second from the right, looking surprisingly buxom. Don’t let it distract you from the fact that Dr Claire O’Callaghan will be talking about moors and the Brontës this Wednesday night at Reading Bogwise. Read the article here: blogsandbogs.substack.com/p/wuthering-...

Wuthering, wuthering, wuthering heights

Who on earth is that red-frocked beauty, plus your link to Wednesday's Reading Bogwise.

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Join us for our next Writing Bogwise session, ‘Queer Landscapes’, coming up on Wednesday 22nd July, 10am. In this writing workshop, we’ll explore the bog as a place that defies binaries, inviting us to imagine different ways of belonging. Book your place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-bo...

Writing Bogwise: Queer Landscapes

an online creative writing workshop with authors Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw

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A reminder of our next Reading Bogwise session, this Wednesday (the 15th), 7pm, with our guest reader Dr Claire O’Callaghan. For Brontë, moor and bog fans everywhere. Read our latest b(l)og article here (it includes info on how to book your place): blogsandbogs.substack.com/p/on-the-wil...

On the wily, windy moors

the Brontës' passion for peatland, and how it continues to change and inspire us

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FREE IN-PERSON WRITING WORKSHOP! THURSDAY 9th 2pm, Trawden Community Centre Really looking forward to leading this friendly 2-hour writing workshop, where we’ll use creative writing to explore the significance of moors, and create our own stories and poems celebrating the moors around Trawden.

Our next Reading Bogwise session will be with Dr Claire O’Callaghan, on all things bogs, moors, and the Brontës. Click the link to read our latest b(l)og article, which includes details of how to book your place. Paying b(l)og subscribers can come for free! blogsandbogs.substack.com/p/on-the-wil...

BOG TIME! Anna Chilvers and I are running a 3-day writing retreat at Cober Hill. Expect workshops, readings, time to write on your own and with others, a visit to an extraordinary bog, and 11 acres of private grounds with a secret path to the sea! Full board and single occupancy starts at £405.

The latest Substack by Anna Chilvers and me, on Wuthering Heights, relationships, moorland ecology, and the fight to save the moors. Includes news of our next Reading Bogwise guest, Brontë expert Claire O’Callaghan. Read the post here, for free. blogsandbogs.substack.com/p/on-the-wil...

On the wily, windy moors

the Brontës' passion for peatland, and how it continues to change and inspire us

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Join me tomorrow morning, for an hour of writing on urban wilderness…how the natural world’s beauty resilient pushes up through the cracks in walls, pavements, in derelict buildings. Just like us! Book your place here: thewritingschool.co.uk/writing- or scan the QR code on the picture.