@beewyld.bsky.social
Disabled writer, carer & apothecary gardener. 🧙🏼♀️Founder/Host Wild Women Writers’ Salons 🏆Shortlist World of Books Sustainable Story Awards 2025📚PreOrder THE APOTHECARY BY THE SEA (2026) Debut memoir ALL MY WILD MOTHERS (2023- Nautilus Award Winner) 🦭Orkney
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.
30.08.2025 08:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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
21.04.2025 21:04 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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
21.04.2025 21:04 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
🏳️⚧️ 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 💕🏳️⚧️
19.04.2025 20:50 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A dark background with bold pale text that reads 'Uniquely compelling, dynamic and powerful, LUCY JONES'.
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 📚
01.04.2025 08:33 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0That’s amazing! Fantastic news! Congratulations 🌟
01.04.2025 08:32 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
‘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...
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...
30.03.2025 21:13 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
07.03.2025 20:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
07.03.2025 10:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The 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.💕
07.03.2025 10:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The 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💕
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🤩 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 🌟
07.03.2025 09:38 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 5 📌 0Thank you so much ☺️ 🙏🌸
05.02.2025 12:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Receiving 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 🙏💕
03.02.2025 19:02 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0All of Wendy’s writing is so beautiful 💛
03.02.2025 19:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you so much 🙏
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🌟Be inspired — evening salon with Clare & Catherine 😊
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.
19.01.2025 09:56 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Early bird offer 🐥 Book by 24th Jan & get 6 months subscription free to Writing Wild newsletter, giving you access to recordings of the 2025 Wild Women Writers’ Salons (April - Sept) plus extra author interviews, writing prompts & more 💕🌟
17.01.2025 21:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Wild Women Writers’ Retreat has been curated by and for writers, bringing together an amazing group of award-winning authors and poets, to offer the most gorgeous week of inspiration, creativity & community.
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12.01.2025 21:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🌟Wild Women Writers’ Retreat (Online)🌟 💕Step into a week of creative nourishment, connection, & exploration with daily creative nurturing, writing sessions & guest authors & industry professionals 💕 Early Bird: Book by 24th Jan - get 6 month sub to Writing Wild www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wild-women...
12.01.2025 18:05 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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 🌸🧙🏼♀️
10.01.2025 15:56 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you so much for your loving support 💕
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🌟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 💕
08.01.2025 08:05 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2I lived on a new build social housing estate, built over a rural brownfield site. Environmental sustainability was written into the tenancy yet my family & I grew faced eviction for growing a wild garden. We kept fighting & after 10 years it was a biodiverse wildlife habitat. victoriabennett.me
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