The Museum of Walking is 15 years old… In 2007 we were lucky to be included in a walking an art residency took place in Banff in the Canadian Rockies. Our proposal was to create a museum of walking to showcase new works and to share the work of walking artists. The Banff experience was […]
Who better to encourage a spring in your step, than former TV fitness personality Joanna Hall who has created the Walk-Active programme. We are publishing our 125th Talking Walking episode, with an interview of Joanna in her home town of Bishop’s Stortford. She can show in a few minutes just how your stature and stride […]
That is what more than 100 people revealed through making submissions on the theme of “Healing Trees” to the 2022 Urban Tree Festival writing competition. Our volunteer judges have selected their Top 24 submissions, that we have published on the Urban Tree Festival website – who would be in your shortlist? Challenged to write about […]
At the WRITE ABOUT TREES showcase finale of the Urban Tree Festival organised by the Museum of Walking and skilfully hosted by poet Arji Manuelpillai, author Sarah Wheeler and poet Chris Cuninghame were declared winners of the Festival’s writing competition taking on the accolade of Writers-in-Residence for the 2022 Urban Tree Festival. Sarah Wheeler […]
We are delighted to announce the shortlist of writers whose poetry and prose appears in this year’s Urban Tree Festival edition of CANOPY which is published today! Earlier this year we ran a competition in which we asked people to submit a poem or a story of 250 words or under on the theme of […]
For the Urban Tree Festival 2021, we invited people to send in poetry and prose on the theme of “trees close to you” in a competition to win a spot in Canopy the illustrated chapbook anthology of nature writing that supports the Urban Tree Festival through sale proceeds, that is published by Sampson Low Publishers. […]
We don’t usually publish a review of the year but 2020 was somewhat exceptional for everybody including the Museum of Walking. We began the year with great hopes and a desire to broaden our offer over each season. We are not usually out and about in the winter months because the weather is inclement and […]
We are delighted to announce the publication of Canopy a beautifully illustrated 20 page chapbook anthology of poems and flash stories inspired by acclaimed nature writers and sold in aid of future Urban Tree Festivals. Available from our on-line shop 2020 marks the anniversary of some key poets and writers who have put nature writing […]
We are delighted to announce the winners of the first poetry and short story anthology celebrating urban trees – 10 writers have been selected for their engaging pieces that will be published by Sampson Low Publishers in the Urban Tree Festival “Canopy” anthology. They will be joining authors of stories from our Autumn Colours anthology, […]
Write About Trees We are delighted to announce our new competition for writers of both poetry and prose to tie in with the forthcoming Urban Tree Festival in May. At last year’s Urban Tree Festival we had five published authors reading their nature writing, this year we wanted to host an event at which novice […]
