The Dark Mountain Project
The Dark Mountain Project, Sylvia V. Linsteadt, Charlotte Du Cann, Brian C George, Mat Osmond, Alexander McMaster, Josh Appignanesi, Lara-Lane Plambeck, Mark Watson, Nickole Brown, Michael McLane, Sonja SwiftNew stories for an age of endings
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 62 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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(left) Issue 21 cover, ‘Meander’ by Cecily Eno; (right) Issue 4 cover ‘Man on Laptop (Early Morning)’, by Kit Boyd
Dark Mountain: Issue 21 on ‘confluence’ (£12.99)
This book goes beyond watery metaphor to explore confluence in its complex...
La Nephew and the Volcán
A post-cautionary tale from our archive offer this month
‘Nephew wondered where it came from, all that glowing rock. How could it keep coming? Who or what saw to its provision day after day, night after night?’
Dark Mountain: Issue 29
Our latest issue is a modern bestiary, a collection of writing and art with animals at its heart. You can find a recording of the book’s online launch below this precis. Leap in!
Our twenty-seventh issue is a book about animals.
The non-h...
The Sister-Sows
'Twrch Trwyth took one step closer. The whole Black Forest shook...' In the last of this series of extracts from our newly published Spring issue, writer and wildlife tracker Sylvia V. Linstead reaches into Greek and Welsh myth to tell the...
Boundary? What Boundary?
'In your early twenties you exhausted the goodwill of all your friends and now at the age of 39, as if to make up for it, you claim friendship with every pigeon in London: their amber eyes remind you of your mother.' The penultimate post in...
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New stories for an age of endings
Sylvia V. Linsteadt is an award-winning writer, wildlife tracker & scholar born in California. Her books include The Venus Year, Our Lady of the Dark Country, The Wild Folk, Tatterdemalion, and Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Author of 'After Ithaca - Journeys in Deep time.' and '52 Flowers That Shook My World.' Co-director of the Dark Mountain Project. Teaches collaborative writing and radical kinship with the more-than human world. charlotteducann.net.
Brian is the author of two books of essays and five books of poetry. His work is available through https://untimelybooks.com/book-author/brian-george/
I am a writer, sailor and marine ecologist from the Atlantic coast of Ireland.
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).
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