Happy half birthday

Moving Mountains is six months old

Hello!

I wanted to do a short celebration post to thank you for subscribing, reading, watching and supporting Moving Mountains. Below is a short video about the book with a reading from the introduction. Apologies, I missed giving a visual description of the book as I held it up to the camera, I’ll add these below the video.

I’ve also added another short film of a reading of my essay in the collection, Things in Jars, and a link to a new online event as part of the Festival of Nature at the bottom of this post.

Visual descriptions: a white woman in tortoiseshell rimmed glasses with short-ish dark blonde hair in a black top. The background is a foliage filled greenery of leaves and fern covered wallpaper and a very reflective photograph in a black frame of a sunrise over Mount Kinabalu in Borneo.

Where the book is held up to the camera there are images of Lorna Crabbe’s ‘Birdwomen’ series of black ink drawings on a white background. They combine bird like signifiers of beaks with images referencing a female face or body, for instance a mask on a female face with a beak, long arm-like structures emerging with beaks at the end instead of hands.

The images of Dawn Cole’s work ‘Artificacaea’ are finely drawn botanical images of long narrow stalks with lantern shaped flowers along the stems.

Below I’m reading an extract from my own piece, Things in Jars:

You can find Moving Mountains in all the usual book-ish places, do order it through your library and/or local independent bookshops too if you can, your time and money will be all the more appreciated as this does so much to support writers and readers. If you have read the anthology and enjoyed it, please consider sharing the love and add reviews and ratings to online book-buying pages, it really helps!

Thank you for all your support of the book and the writing. If you haven’t already, subscribe through the buttons in this post and if you can add paid support it helps to continue this work. If you have suggestions or things you would like to see/hear or read do add them to the comments.

Have a great weekend and happy writing and reading!

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P.S. There is now a brochure for this year’s Festival of Nature, with a link to the brochure and in-person as well as online events - including a new Moving Mountains one! See you on 3rd June?