Penny Walker (@penny-walker-sd) — Bluesky Profile

2 weeks ago

Screenshot from Copenhagen Light Festival App, showing satellite image of Copenhagen with coloured map pins for the location of art works.

Photograph of paper map of Copenhagen, with blocks in grey, streets in white, rivers and lakes in blue. There are silhouettes of museums, places of worship and other prominent buildings. Pedestrian streets are in yellow, and there are coloured lines for public transport routes.

Close up photograph of paper map of Copenhagen, with blocks in grey, streets in white, rivers and lakes in blue. There are silhouettes of museums, places of worship and other prominent buildings. Pedestrian streets are in yellow, and there are coloured lines for public transport routes.

Mapping Copenhagen - bead by bead, we thread this city onto a yarn.

New flash non-fiction, as writer-in-residence @walklistencreate.org

#FlashNonFiction #WriterInResidence #Walking #Map #WalkingArt #Resistance #AmWriting

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1 month ago

The river has desire lines Penny Walker, 2026 story writer-in-residence, who invites you discover where a river might flow River Pant, Essex. 2 miles 13th January 2026 Seven of us and a dog walked down the track, ...

The river has desire lines.

New flash non-fiction, my second piece as writer-in-residence @walklistencreate.org

#FlashNonFiction #WriterInResidence #NaturalFloodManagement #WalkingArt #CatchmentBasedApproach #HabitatCreation

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1 month ago

The river has desire lines Penny Walker, 2026 story writer-in-residence, who invites you discover where a river might flow River Pant, Essex. 2 miles 13th January 2026 Seven of us and a dog walked down the track, ...

The river has desire lines.

New flash non-fiction, my second piece as writer-in-residence @walklistencreate.org

#FlashNonFiction #WriterInResidence #NaturalFloodManagement #WalkingArt #CatchmentBasedApproach #HabitatCreation

walklistencreate.org/2026/01/20/t...

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2 months ago

New Year’s Day, 2026 - 6 miles, Lee Valley Park, UK We welcome Penny Walker, 2026 story writer-in-residence, who invites you discover a chilly morning walk We didn’t see in the New Year. We woke long before dawn to drop our daughter and her husband ...

A New Year's Day with a very early start, binoculars and puddle ice. Six miles in the Lee Valley Country Park. My first piece for @walklistencreate.org as story writer-in-residence for 2026.

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#walking #birding #NewYear2026 #AmWritingNonFiction

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2 months ago

Cogs whirring after first meeting with the team @walklistencreate.org, with @elizafevwrites.bsky.social, to kick off our both being writers in residence for the next year. Opportunities, ideas, connections. What are these feelings I'm feeling?

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3 months ago

List of contributors to the current issue of Ambient Receiver. Around forty names in a serif font on a white background.

Illustration used on the cover of Ambient Receiver issue 3. It is an abstract picture with a large blob of cream, yellow and pink, with items sticking out of it including what looks like green grass and a small statue. The whole think is on a darker greeny grey and pink background.

'Realignment', a new story of coastal erosion, falling and love, is out today in Issue 3 of Ambient Receiver. And it's in such great company. Take a look here www.ambientreceiver.org
and www.ambientreceiver.org/penny-walker
#AmWriting #SpeculativeFiction #CoastalErosion #CliFi #DeindustrialFiction

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3 months ago

#goals Amazing output and achievements!

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3 months ago

Hi Mona, thanks for asking! I write speculative fiction with an eco-hopeful, de-industrial vibe. I also write creative non-fiction which explore being an embodied human living on a planet which provides basic life support systems I'm complicit in trashing.

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3 months ago

'Realignment', a new story of coastal erosion, falling and love, is out today in Issue 3 of Ambient Receiver. And it's in such great company. Take a look here www.ambientreceiver.org
and www.ambientreceiver.org/penny-walker
#AmWriting #SpeculativeFiction #CoastalErosion #CliFi #DeindustrialFiction

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3 months ago

Fitzrovia Futures 2055 Come along to hear 3 short stories set in Fitzrovia in 2055, followed by a discussion and audience Q&A - are these the future(s) we want?

Fitzrovia Futures 2055 is a community-led project, imagining possible futures, involving researchers and writers. Come and hear us reading our stories on 11th December.

I'll be reading 'A Tale for a Tourist', alongside Stephen Oram and Ana Sun.

www.eventbrite.com/e/fitzrovia-...

#AppliedSciFi

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3 months ago

Photograph of the BT Tower on a sunny day, showing streets of Fitzrovia.

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3 months ago

Composite image with the words Read the Stories, then three different photos of the BT Tower with streets and sky. Each photo has the title of a different story and its author below it.

Penny Walker reading during the Fitzrovia Summer Fete. A middle-aged white woman in a colourful shirt and grey jeans, holding pieces of paper, with her hand on her head, standing on a temporary stage area in the street, with microphones and other music equipment.

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3 months ago

Cover of third issues of Ambient Receiver. Pale pink and yellow organic shape on a dark pink, green and grey background. Some abstract shapes are sticking out of the blob.

Ambient Receiver 3 is out on Monday. I have a story in it, alongside nearly forty other writers, poets and other artists. Journal of Creative Ecologies. Check it out: ambientreceiver.org

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3 months ago

Three copies of the cover of a chapbook called ‘Walking in the Dark’, arranged in a fan shape on wooden floorboards.

Copies of the limited-edition chapbook Walking in the Dark, containing the fifteen flash stories and poems shortlisted for the competition, including Seeing the Moon (by me). #FlashFiction #SpeculativeFiction @walklistencreate.org

Buy it here! walklistencreate.org/shop/walking/

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3 months ago

Nooooo! Don't scrap the Finch ruling!

Keir Starmer may see them as part of “unnecessary red-tape, well-intentioned, but fundamentally misguided, environmental regulations” but the Finch ruling, Habitats Regulations, biodiversity net gain, etc, are vital protections for our planet and for nature.

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3 months ago

Congratulations! 😀

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3 months ago

I’m agog to find out what that will be like!

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3 months ago

Congratulations to the winners Following a public Showcase event earlier today, at which the authors who had poems and stories shortlisted in our annual Write About Walking writing competition, that this year had the theme of “In T...

I'm still buzzing from this and looking forward to being a writer-in-residence alongside @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social

walklistencreate.org/mailing/cong...

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3 months ago

Morning Big Man. I had the pleasure this weekend of reading @walklistencreate.org’s beautiful chapbook anthology of shortlisted works for the Walking in the Dark competition. @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social & @elizafevwrites.bsky.social were the winners. The anthology can be obtained from WLC this week

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3 months ago

Congratulations to the winners Following a public Showcase event earlier today, at which the authors who had poems and stories shortlisted in our annual Write About Walking writing competition, that this year had the theme of “In T...

Very excited about this! Especially the part of the prize which is being a writer in residence - what will happen?!

walklistencreate.org/mailing/cong...

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3 months ago

Love the rhythm and the chilling ambiguity of the final line.

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3 months ago

I'm over the moon that my poem, Nightstepper, has won the poetry prize in the @walklistencreate.org 'Walking in the Dark' competition. Congratulations to all who were part of this lovely evening of words, and to the judges for their generous comments.

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3 months ago

Thank you to all the judges, team, fellow writers. Can’t wait to see what everyone does next! #AmWriting #FlashFiction #SpeculativeFiction

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3 months ago

Walking Writers who Shine In the Dark Penny Walker for her story Seeing the Moon and Elizabeth Fevyer for her poem Nightstepper are the winners of our annual Write About Walking competition, collecting the prize of becoming our writers-in-residence for 2025/26. Poetry judge and out-going poet-in-residence, Damaris West commented on the poetry entries: “Judging the ‘In the dark’ competition was not an

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3 months ago

Your Selkie mystery will stay with me...

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3 months ago

Walking Writers who Shine In the Dark Penny Walker for her story Seeing the Moon and Elizabeth Fevyer for her poem Nightstepper are the winners of our annual Write About Walking competition, collecting the prize of becoming our writers-...

Absolutely delighted that 'Seeing the Moon', a Tithingdale story, has won the fiction section of this competition.

Thank you @chantallyons.bsky.social for your very kind words - that's what I'd hoped for and you saw it in this very short story.

walklistencreate.org/2025/11/30/w...

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3 months ago

Thank you very much! And congratulations for having two pieces shortlisted 🐗

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3 months ago

Congratulations 🥳 to very deserving winners for @walklistencreate.org ‘Writing In The Dark’ competition @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social and @elizafevwrites.bsky.social - such a wonderful evening of prose & poetry this evening and fab awareness raising of the work Walk | Write | Create do 🎉

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3 months ago

So this happened! Thanks so much to all the other writers and poets, judges, organisers… 🌓 @walklistencreate.org @electrarhodes.bsky.social

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3 months ago

Thanks so much Paul!

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