Really enjoying #Ancient by Luke Barley.
Beautifully written and fascinating. For anyone who loves trees (and that’s surely everyone?) 🌳🌳🌳
#booksky #naturewriting
@wainwrightprize.bsky.social

Really enjoying #Ancient by Luke Barley.
Beautifully written and fascinating. For anyone who loves trees (and that’s surely everyone?) 🌳🌳🌳
#booksky #naturewriting
@wainwrightprize.bsky.social
Today's writing prompt is inspired by the anniversary of the International Space Treaty
Write a treaty for nature
What can we do together?
Keine Buchmesse für mich, aber trotzdem ein hoher #SUB 😅 Einmal quer durch meine Lieblingsgenres #Fantasy, #ScienceFiction, #Krimi, #NatureWriting 🤩 Wünsche euch diese Woche extra viel Spaß mit unserem Lieblingsthema! 📚😊 So, zurück ans aktuelle Manuskript … #buchmesse #fbm26 #booksky #lesen
A mysterious case of the appearing rosemary beetle in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Susie White. We've had them here for years and I've never noticed any real damage. I'm interested to know if others have found them problematic.
Hello Pacific Ocean ☺️ next stop Summerland, Santa Barbara. Can’t wait to celebrate THE LANGUAGE OF TREES with Riley Reed at GODMOTHERS Bookstore tomorrow, 6-7PM. Let me know if you need a ticket!
www.eventbrite.com/e/godmothers... #TheLanguageOfTrees #BookTour #NatureWriting #California #BookSky
Blues on the moor in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Mark Cocker.
In honor and in memory of Grandmother Cottonwood and the Tohono O'odham people and her protectors. Destroyed this week to make way for the double border wall. #naturewriting
Today's prompt is in honour of Brocctober 🧡
Considering the misunderstood in nature 🦡
Six categories. Six brilliant books. One very special year of the #WainwrightPrize. 🌿
Henry takes us through the 2026 winners – from ancient woodlands and wild landscapes to birds, bees, the Arctic and the lost worlds of deep time.
The cloths of wet fires litter the ground
A mini writing exercise for you to follow along with today, can be done from anywhere
Cronch of Beech mast,
Scamper of Grey Squirrels,
Cawing of Crows,
Croaking of Rooks,
Light whistling of Goldfinch,
Blue and white of skies,
October morning in England.
Last week was awful, but this one is murmuring adoration. Thank goodness.
Love in Murmuration
#Poetry #NatureWriting #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Autumn #Murmuration
Todays #DailyNature prompt on the calendar is
'the accidentally aligned'
Look up tonight and during tomorrows predawn to see if you can see the crescent oon backed by Mars
Consider what else in nature accidentally alligns to make something beautiful
Small reminder that we have a live #WaterBookClub this month with American Climate Scientist
Alpha Lo
on his book 'Restore the Rain'
October 20th
7pm [BST]
11am [PST]
Over on Mess In A Boat substack
- you can grab one of his books now online too
An amazing day as a shortlisted @wainwrightprize.bsky.social author 2026 at one of my favourite places in Kent—the Isle of Sheppey (it features first thing in the Prologue to my forthcoming book, Hibernal!) #naturewriting
Check out Tamara Caulkins's review of Sandra Knapp & Katie Scott's "Flower Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Floral Lives," published in 2025 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #naturewriting #scicomm
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
This week's Substack is a call to action in defense of the Roadless Rule and Roadless Area Conservation Act.
A sad @theguardian.com country diary, both for salmon and for the fishing tradition it used to support in the Severn.