Victoria Bennett

🌊 Introducing… #TheApothecaryByTheSea by @beewyld.bsky.social!

From the award-winning author of All My Wild Mothers: a lyrical, tender story of creating a wild #apothecary garden on the Scottish archipelago of #Orkney...

With beautiful illustrations by Adam Clarke🌼
Out 30 April
#garden #gardening

Really thrilled to return here with lovely news that I’ve been shortlisted for the World of Books Sustainable Story Awards (non-fiction) for my new work RUST: A Personal Story of Iron. Blending memoir, eco-feminism, and geology, RUST traces iron’s imprint on body, family, and landscape.

Bird of Hope 2025 | Victoria Bennett 🌼🐝🐺 | Substack Bird of Hope is a collaborative act of creative resistance. Our first act of resistance (Birdsong) launches 22 March 2025. Artists: Victoria Bennett and Sheena Graham-George. Click to read Bird of Hop...

Still collecting birdsong for our #BirdofHope2025 project. Record and email 1 min of birdsong by 22 June. Be part of a global chorus of hope and peace. Details in newsletter birdsongproject.substack.com

Bird of Hope 2025 | Victoria Bennett 🌼🐝🐺 | Substack Bird of Hope is a collaborative act of creative resistance. Our first act of resistance (Birdsong) launches 22 March 2025. Artists: Victoria Bennett and Sheena Graham-George. Click to read Bird of Hop...

Still collecting birdsong for our #BirdofHope2025 project. Record and email 1 min of birdsong by 22 June. Be part of a global chorus of hope and peace. Details in newsletter birdsongproject.substack.com

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans women are welcome in all Wild Women spaces. The same goes for non-binary, gender fluid & gender non-conforming people who feel included by the term wild women.This is a community that celebrates the wild & beautiful stories we each hold 💕🏳️‍⚧️

Starting with the first section of MOVING MOUNTAINS - #water - a theme that runs throughout - there are beautiful pieces of new writing by Sally Huband [Sea Bean], singer/songwriter Isobel Anderson [CHALK/FLINT], poetry by Jane Hartshorn [Tract], & @beewyld.bsky.social [All My Wild Mothers]

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All March's episodes in one handy place

263 Wild open coastal reserve
> bit.ly/LenRHFeb

262 Night stream at West Quantoxhead
> bit.ly/LenQnX2

261 Midnight in Rye
> bit.ly/LenRyeC3

260 Early spring in the Derbyshire hills
> bit.ly/LenMild2

259 Night rain under a large tarpaulin
> bit.ly/LenTRain

So incredibly proud to be part of this anthology, so beautifully crafted by Louise 🙏💕🌱 Stateside friends, go find it 📚

That’s amazing! Fantastic news! Congratulations 🌟

Bird of Hope 2025 An artist-led international project of hope in small acts of creative resistance. Launch project 'Birdsong' 22 March 2025.

‘A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us...’Rainer Maria Rilke) 🕊️

Bird of Hope 2025 is a collaborative act of creative resistance creating a chorus of hope woven from birdsong around the worldan 🤍 Join the chorus. 💕 birdsongproject.substack.com/p/birdsong-2...

Bird of Hope 2025 An artist-led international project of hope in small acts of creative resistance. Launch project 'Birdsong' 22 March 2025.

I’d love to share that very kind offer through our new artist-led project Bird of Hope 2025, if you’d be up for that? birdsongproject.substack.com/p/birdsong-2...

January 14 - Bookable Space with Victoria Bennett YouTube video by Yvonne Battle-Felton

A conversation on life, love, death, motherhood and the winding ways it can take between first word and published book. One for those interested in memoir, nature and life writing, living with grief and finding joy 🌸📚 youtu.be/EeYfB_fyBvg

Wild Women Writers' Salons | Victoria Bennett 🌼🐝🐺 | Substack Behind-the-scenes extras from Wild Women Writers' salons - take a deep dive into memoir and creative non-fiction with Victoria Bennett & guests - talking inspiration, creative practice, publishing exp...

Subscribe to Writing Wild Newsletter to keep connected. Do consider a paid subscription 🙏 which supports our work and gives you 🌟through-the-year access to all the salon recordings each month + extra author interviews, prompts, reading resources & writing opportunities🌟 wildwomansalons.substack.com

The 2025/26 salons launch late Spring, featuring more amazing writers of fiction/memoir/poetry/nonfiction. All events are online, live captioned & recorded with subtitles for delayed viewing. Tickets are Pay What You Can with ticket takings supporting authors & all involved behind the scenes.💕

The Wild Women Writers’ Salons are an equitable & inclusive space for writers & readers to gather & engage in meaningful conversation. Each salon features 3-4 fantastic guest writers, brought together to explore their inspirations, motivations & creative journeys. 100% online. Self-care prioritised💕

Wild Women Writers' Salons | Victoria Bennett 🌼🐝🐺 | Substack Behind-the-scenes extras from Wild Women Writers' salons - take a deep dive into memoir and creative non-fiction with Victoria Bennett & guests - talking inspiration, creative practice, publishing exp...

🤩 Until 31st March I’m making 🌟all the 2023-24 Wild Women Writers’ Salon recordings free to view! 🌟 13 incredible conversations between writers of non-fiction/memoir about what inspires, informs, shapes & guides their writing. Issue 14/15 of Writing Wild 💕 wildwomansalons.substack.com 🌟

Thank you so much ☺️ 🙏🌸

Receiving messages like this is like receiving postcards from my ‘’mothers’ telling me they’ve met someone lovely on their travels 🌸🥰 It makes a big beautiful difference 🙏💕

All of Wendy’s writing is so beautiful 💛

Thank you so much 🙏

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It’s a wonderful anthology, and so proud to have a couple of poems in here too, about hidden stories and how the absence of those stories is passed down.

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National Trust to restore nature across area bigger than Greater London Charity reveals plans to create 250,000 hectares of nature-rich landscape as it marks 130th anniversary

National Trust to restore nature across area bigger than Greater London
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Today’s wild brew is a blend of passion flower, lemon verbena, mallow petals, mullein, catnip, yarrow, lemon balm, linden flower, roseroot, peppermint, ginger, hops, cinnamon, rose petals, hibiscus flowers, chamomile and lavender flowers. Soothing, settling and restorative for those migraine days 🌸🧙🏼‍♀️

Thank you so much for your loving support 💕

🌟2025🌟 Delighted to share that I’m now represented by Caro Clarke @portyliterary.bsky.social joining their brilliant stable of authors 📕🌟 l know that my words & my journey as a writer could not be in better, kinder, more dedicated hands. I look forward to the adventures 💕