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Nature from a narrowboat through a neurodivergent lens +⛵The Boater's Country Diary: short nature entries from a nomadic life on the water + 🌊 Water Book Club Podcast: Q&A author interviews + 🌿#DailyNature: quarterly community creative showcases

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  • Jen Ratcliffe 🚣‍♀️🌿

    Come catch a wave 🌊 I'm Jen, I share dreamy musings about nature from my wandering water-cradled narrowboat in the UK ✨Longlisted Walking In The Dark 25/ Shortlisted WC Nature Writing Prize 24/ Finalist Porthleven Prize 23 🗞️ BL Waterwaysworld etc

  • Annie Worsley

    Notes from a small croft by the sea Nature Memoir Geographer Grandmother Crofter Wester Ross Author of WINDSWEPT: life, nature & deep time in the Scottish Highlands https://notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/

  • Alexander Gunnarsson

    Nature writer & burnt-out academic turned sailor seeking something more human along the windswept shores of Scotland. I write about life adrift & healing in nature, sharing my search for meaning through water and earth.

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    Writer, editor and Guardian country diary. Author of Land Beneath the Waves.

  • Katie Annice Carr
  • Jen Jones

    I am a writer and soil scientist passionate about the natural world. I write regularly for the Guardian Country Diary and am currently writing a book about soil for Bloomsbury Wildlife.

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