This has made me think a lot about event economics - as I think those numbers may surprise people too.

I don't have time to do a full breakdown, but on a very back-of-the-envelope level, an author coming from say London to Manchester for a bookshop event might look as follows:

This is a fascinating breakdown of costs for getting that book into your hands. A reason to buy from independent bookshops and direct from the publishers

Tonight I’ll be hosting an online dinner with Nick Hunt -
travel writer, editor of DarkMountainProject and author of (among many other things) The Parakeeting of London - and just now I met a lady with a rescued parakeet in her bag 🦜 mind you it is Stroud…
dialect.org.uk/events/dialect…

My Noema Magazine piece on walking, pilgrimage and return is featured on the Dense Discovery newsletter, which I'd not come across before. A good round-up of fascinating stuff...

You are cordially invited to a three-course virtual meal tomorrow night, courtesy of the dialectwriters community. I'll be presenting three dishes as a way into talking about my writing and travelling, and conversation will flow. Do join us! dialect.org.uk/events/dialect…

Just finished this lovely book by one of my absolute favourite authors Nick Hunt 🙌📖

‘Red Smoking Mirror’

A little different from his books I have read before, but no less brilliant! Beautifully written. Utterly absorbing.

If you haven’t read his work, make sure you do🙏

I had the massive pleasure of interviewing the remarkable Silvia Federici for the new edition of DarkMountainProject. We spoke about the dispossession of land, Gaza, and how witch hunts continue at the frontiers of capitalism. An extract online here: dark-mountain.net/a-world-turned…

In the third of our series of extracts from Dark Mountain: Issue 25, we bring you Adam Weymouth's conversation with writer, teacher and activist Silvia Federici about the destruction of the commons and the legacy of empire dark-mountain.net/a-world-turned…

In our BRAND NEW EP, we chat to Nick Hunt about balancing experience and fiction, travelling for a living, and his new novel, 'Red Smoking Mirror' 🔴💨🪞

Listen in 👉 podfollow.com/writersroutine

#WritingCommunity #books #WednesdayMotivation

A glimpse of the beautiful hardback Dark Mountain: Issue 25, a book about the living land that underpins all land rights struggles. With contributions from over 60 writers, artists, thinkers and doers, it's an amazing body of work. On sale now! DarkMountainProject dark-mountain.net/introducing-ou…

For Perspective's apocalypse issue, I wrote about the 2012 Mayan calendar 'prophecy' and how doomsday scenarios appeal to a linear sense of time that (unsurprisingly) has little to do with what the Maya actually said. It was fascinating to research perspectivemedia.com/the-wheel-turn…

Robin Grey contributed a brilliant piece to Dark Mountain: Issue 25 (just published!) about the background to the lyrics of two 17th-century land protest songs. His show Three Acres & A Cow is on tour now and we heartily recommend it...

This is a wonderful piece to launch our extracts from the new book. We've been packing and posting copies today, so they will be in the world soon!

'When I walked in the fields and woods of home my language always flowed'

For the next few weeks we're sharing excerpts from our new book, Issue 25!

1st up, Damian Le Bas on being severed him from his Romani language, and finding an urban hybrid tongue
dark-mountain.net/talking-to-mys…

DIALECT DINNERS!

Our new series of online author events is launching Tuesday April 30th 7-8pm

And we’re thrilled to say that our first guest speaker is acclaimed travel writer, author, mentor and editor of the Dark Mountain Project: Nick Hunt! 🌟

dialect.org.uk/events/dialect…

We're excited to announce the publication of our latest book, Dark Mountain: Issue 25 – an anthology inspired by the struggle for land rights, and by the living land itself. Today we get you started with the editorial (with cover image by David McGlynn dark-mountain.net/introducing-ou…

Editing this brilliant book on the struggle for land rights with Anthea Lawson, Adam Weymouth and Ava Osbiston has been fantastic. Out today! And there are still free places for tonight's launch too... dark-mountain.net/introducing-ou…

I wrote about the silence of Dugi Otok, its leg-tearing maquis, its rocky shores, its elderly nudists, its feral sheep, the islands of Grandmother's Arse and Great Whore, and the barren Kornati archipelago for Guardian Travel. #Croatia theguardian.com/travel/2024/ap…

'My skin was scorched from the sun.'

Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory . Congrats to writer Nick Hunt and Noema Magazine!

Damn History subscriptions: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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