The Dark Mountain Project
The Dark Mountain Project, Sylvia V. Linsteadt, Mat Osmond, Lara-Lane Plambeck, Mark Watson, Nickole Brown, Michael McLane, Sonja Swift, Antonio Serrano NietoNew stories for an age of endings
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 67 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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Unmoored
From Issue 26: Dark Ocean
‘We had accepted the idea of ourselves as waterborne outcasts, seafarers not yachtsmen, finally cut adrift from a shore that, we felt, no longer had a place for us’. Heading off into the fog, writer and voyager C....
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Serafina at Table, Fiji by Nick Brandt From the series SINK / RISE ( (Issue 26 - Dark Ocean)
Issue 26: Dark Ocean
Dark Ocean is a collection of essays, stories, artwork and poetry, praise song and meditation, based on a Dark Mountain...
How Not to Save the World
‘The idea of the elect, detached from religion, becomes a form of exceptionalism; an assumption of superiority … It’s exceptionalism that puts us in the position of thinking that perhaps we can save others – rather than asking what they wan...
The Village That Learned to Hide
A forest disappearance
‘We live in a world organised around exposure – constant visibility, noise, speed, permanent connection. La Sauceda followed the opposite logic.’ Deep inside the cork forests of southern Spain is a village that has s...
The Nameless Are In Me
Two poems from our spring offer Issue 21
Dark Mountain Issue 21 revolves around the theme of ‘confluence’, a dynamic where forces, bodies, rivers, meet and converge. Even the issue itself was a merger with the publication saltfront. This e...
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New stories for an age of endings
Sylvia V. Linsteadt is an award-winning writer, scholar of myth & ancient matrifocal histories, & wildlife tracker. Her books include The Venus Year, Our Lady of the Dark Country, The Wild Folk, & Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Lara-Lane is a writer and cultural worker from Germany. Rooted in Cultural Analysis and the Environmental Humanities, she aligns writing with embodied change work. Her practice orients along more-than-human teachings such as those of peatlands.
Mark Watson (1962–2024) was at the heart of Dark Mountain for 12 years. He showed others how to connect with the dreaming of plants through embodied practice, communication and developing mutual relationships.'The Plant Pamphlets' came out in 2024.
Poet, teacher of creative writing, and President of the Hellbender Gathering of Poets
Michael McLane is a poet, essayist and editor. He is author of the chapbooks Trace Elements and Fume, the editor of The Once and Future Lake, an anthology on the Great Salt Lake and poetry editor for Dark Mountain. He lives in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Sonja Swift is a writer and poet. She is the author of Echo Loba, Loba Echo: Of Wisdom, Wolves and Women (Rocky Mountain Books, 2023)and Red Sky in the Morning: Of Water, Whales and Warnings (RMB, 2026).
Antonio Serrano Nieto is a photographer and location scout based in southern Spain. Alongside his professional work, he writes about landscapes where human histories, memory and the more-than-human world intersect.
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