Writer and photographer Emma Lord on understanding her own writing process, and moving beyond the definitions provided by others

Katie Lloyd-Nunn reviews Golden Roots, a new album from Shelley Rider and Pete Ways

Ecologist Ivi Szaboova on trying to find a tender place in the world through writing.

Poet Jason Conway on living a creative life after his autism diagnosis

Kate Potts on the inspiration behind her Wise Women Poetry Workshop

Mark Blackburn on the challenges of writing about his father’s obsession with success, wealth and personal pleasure

Nadia Henderson on the homes that live within and outside of us and what buildings can tell us about the state of our characters’ relationships.

Hannah Marsh delves into the story of the Caesarean section, looking at how it weaves its way through myth, folklore and culture, as well as our shared medical and social history.

Jojo Tulloh writes about her journey to find the spring that sustained Hope Bourne, an artist and writer who lived alone in a caravan on Exmoor

Can local stories offer inspiration in unlikely places? Sarah Royston roams the byways of history and folklore, finding new ways to encounter ordinary landscapes.

Our guiding words for 2024 are Care, Hope and Disruption - and it's the first of these, care, that we are holding onto most tightly in this dark and decidedly chilly part of the year.

DIRT’s editor Alice Willitts introduces the Imaginarium, a new collaborative forward thinking project supported with a generous grant awarded by the Sustainable Futures Fund.

Hope is the thing with feathers, but the skies are dark and the world is heavy to hold … finding light pooled in the corners of our writing community.

(both laughing) otherwise known as artists Nick Grellier and Emily Lucas collaboratively interview themselves for their forthcoming publication with Dialect Press, enjambments.

Caroline Shaw and Katie Lloyd-Nunn introduce their new in-person poetry course for 2024.

Sarah Davy, who lives close to Hadrian’s Wall, reflects on the felling of the tree at Sycamore Gap and what it means for her creative practice, her community - and for hope in the age of climate crisis.

Rachel Goodman and Elvire Roberts on collaboration and the voice that arose from the space between them. Their pamphlet Knee to Knee will be published by Dialect Press in early 2024.

Read a feature on Dialect in the July 2023 issue of Good on Paper.

Cover art by (both laughing)

Where does personal grief end and ecological grief begin? How do we articulate and honour pain and unthinkable loss - for ourselves and for our world?

What lies beneath - artist and writer Deborah Cox on reading the landscape