Exploring the intersections of nature, creativity, writing and personal transformation. A space for creative dreamers to deepen their relationship with the natural world, explore their creative lives, and participate in the Wild Muse Nature Writing Prize.
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‘Held’ - Highly Commended in the 2025 Wild Muse Nature Writing Prize
“…jays can seed an entire forest. They do it through forgetting, the jays. They bury the acorns and a forest grows from their forgetting.”
Jane Lovell, awarded an Honourable Mention for the Wild Muse Nature Writing Prize, 2025
The 2026 Wi...
The Rootbound Self
“We are the tree who thinks, ‘I cannot make it here because the air says so,’ without realising we are what the air is missing.”
THE HOUSEPLANT CUTTINGS I’D made over the summer and placed into glass vials of water to grow roots were now r...
‘Spot the Difference’ - Shortlisted for The Wild Muse Nature Writing Prize 2025
“Let’s play spot the difference.
What’s the prize? You ask. Clean water, I reply.”
Rhiannon Long, shortlisted for the Wild Muse Nature Writing Prize, 2025
The 2026 Wild Muse Nature Writing Prize is now closed for submissions. We will be...
On Rejection and Taking Things Personally
“There was a sense of muscle memory to it, as if I were stripping away learned inhibitions and letting the body’s original, unbothered intelligence take over.”
Taking in the view on the way back from Crater Lake in the Maroon Bells-Snowmas...
Making Art with Nature with Molly Reeder
“It’s a continuous reminding myself that it’s okay to feel ease and softness in the process.”
I’m still smiling from my chat with watercolour artist yesterday. There were so many highlights for me such as the idea of moving beyond simply...
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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 | enviro | creative entrepreneur | 2nd-wave mom | teach online writing workshops & courses LIVE (Magical Craft of Creative Nonfiction) @ www.janisseray.com | grateful for wildflowers & dark chocolate & birds & laughing
internationally bestselling author of books including Hark, How Women Listen; and Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil Sisterhood. I write savour, a newsletter about writing, motherhood and the delicious things in life.
#NorthernDebutAward 2020 | Long-listed #NanShepherdPrize | #WriteNow2020 | #IndigoPoet | Founder @WildWomenPress | F/T carer & mum | Unruly genes
Hello. I’m Joanna Wolfarth, a writer, educator and art historian - with a background in philosophy. I'm the author of MILK: An Intimate History of Feeding and run regular creative workshops based around art and writing.
These are the things my garden told me.
Painting + the imaginal + plants. Expression as ritual. www.mollyreeder.com
I am an artist, writer and designer who loves the natural world and encourages others to explore it with me. I connect people to place using creative practices and run regular 'Dwellbeing' retreats in Kent.
I believe creativity is one of the ways we enter into conversation with the mystery of being alive. Earth & Verse is where I teach, gather, and make from that place.
A wee bit witchy \ud83e\uddd9♀️ Poet, wildlife photographer, ally. \ud83d\udc9a Head writer at The Messy Writers Club, a monthly writing circle. Author of “Upon Learning That” and “All these Living Things” available at the link in my bio ✍️
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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