Moving Mountains is about noticing the small and the slow, living with unpredictability and instability. It is not about overcoming or conquering, but of living with and connecting.
Following the launch of the anthology Moving Mountains, this substack continues the themes, and plots developments of the book. This will primarily explore our connection to nature, and of living with chronic illness/disability. I will share new writing, reflections, creative practice and process, and events related to the anthology.
Louise Kenward is the editor of Moving Mountains: writing nature through illness and disability (Footnote), the culmination of a three year project of the same name which has been supported by multiple literary, nature, and disability organisations, and was awarded an Arts Council England grant at the end of 2021. Louise is a writer, artist and psychologist, and her writing has featured in Women on Nature, The Polyphony, The Clearing and Radio 3 (Landscapes of Recovery). In 2020, she set up ZebraPsych with the aim of raising awareness of energy limiting chronic illness, and she co-produced the anthology Disturbing the Body (Boudicca). Louise was Writer in Residence with the Sussex Wildlife Trust (2021-2022) and is currently a postgraduate researcher at the Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Metropolitan University, where she is conducting a practice led research project on the Romney Marshes through the experience of post-viral illness.
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