Delving into the profound intersections of nature, creativity, and personal healing. Here, creative dreamers can explore their relationship with the natural world and participate in the Wild Muse nature writing prize.
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Can Nature Guide us Without Being in Nature?
"Nature isn't only guiding us when we're walking through a forest. Sometimes she's guiding us through a dream, a vision, something we notice, or simply a feeling we can't ignore."
I loved this solo live exploring four ways that nature can...
I THINK I WANT TO LIVE DIFFERENTLY
"Changing the relationship I wanted first meant changing the relationship I had with myself."
- This is the second essay in my I Think I Want to Live Differently series. In the first, I explored how dreams often arrive in stages, and how...
Stories are Gifts to the World
“The stories that truly change the world begin when we stop observing nature from a distance and allow ourselves to be transformed by our relationship with the living world.”
With submissions open for the 2026 Wild Muse Nature Writing Priz...
'Hiraeth in the Hills' - Longlisted for the Wild Muse Nature Writing Prize
“Standing at the threshold—ridge-edge, breathful of pine—something in me rearranges. I am not still. I am not stone. I am allotropic—shifting-shape, soft-hard, ebb-flow, as nature is: changeful, alert, alive.”
Nyx Lugrâ:Longlisted for the...
Probably nature's most magical guidance!
"The Wild Muse Nature Writing Prize is about storytelling...sharing inspirational stories that have a connection with nature so that you yourself can have an opportunity to percolate and capture the story down."
Yesterday’s live felt incre...
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Home of the Wild Muse Nature Writing Prize. For nature lovers, writers, & dreamers seeking deeper relationship with themselves, their work, & the living world. By award-winning writer Gabriela Blandy.
writer | environmentalist | creative entrepreneur | speaker | popular live online writing workshops & courses | Magical Craft of Creative Nonfiction | www.janisseray.com | award-winning books
The Wild Muse Nature Writing Prize invites personal stories, poems, and essays that explore our relationship with the living world - Submissions for 2026 are open until 14th Sept\ud83c\udf3fThis year's theme is nature's power to heal, guide and transform.
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