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Featured
Wild Words Competition Runner-up: Hannah Ray
Apr 17, 2025
Wild Words Competition Runner-up: Hannah Ray
Apr 17, 2025

Winter Solstice Competition Runner-up: Hannah Ray, with You Were Born in a Pandemic

Apr 17, 2025
Finding The Fresh Voice Within
Nov 11, 2023
Finding The Fresh Voice Within
Nov 11, 2023

We unpeel those layers that have attached themselves over time, by finding word portals back to a freshness of thought and expression.

Nov 11, 2023
Poetry Lover in the Wilds: Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Jun 7, 2023
Poetry Lover in the Wilds: Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Jun 7, 2023
Jun 7, 2023
Live Afresh
May 27, 2023
Live Afresh
May 27, 2023

The ‘Aha!’ moment of the reader is also the instant the writer is liberated. To get there, write as if experiencing something for the first time.

May 27, 2023
Make 'Em Smile: The Art of Using Humour
Apr 21, 2023
Make 'Em Smile: The Art of Using Humour
Apr 21, 2023

Use humour on the page – especially in situations that aren’t at all funny…

Apr 21, 2023
Go In Closer: the art of narrowing focus
Mar 20, 2023
Go In Closer: the art of narrowing focus
Mar 20, 2023

Move into close detail – of both inner and outer experience…

Mar 20, 2023
Radical New Year’s Resolutions for Writers 2023
Jan 5, 2023
Radical New Year’s Resolutions for Writers 2023
Jan 5, 2023
Jan 5, 2023
Drinking a Cup of Tea
Dec 7, 2022
Drinking a Cup of Tea
Dec 7, 2022

The guided writing ‘experiment’ for this winter season…

Dec 7, 2022
Wild Words Competition Runner-up: Michael Forester
Jul 4, 2022
Wild Words Competition Runner-up: Michael Forester
Jul 4, 2022

Once, in millennium not long before this one, I lived in a Forest…

Jul 4, 2022
Wild Words Competition Winner: Helen Chambers
Jun 28, 2022
Wild Words Competition Winner: Helen Chambers
Jun 28, 2022

Martha’s story began, in the way of many, as a glimmer in the back of my mind…

Jun 28, 2022
April 17, 2025

Wild Words Competition Runner-up: Hannah Ray

April 17, 2025/ Bridget Holding
Wild Words Competition Runner-up: Hannah Ray

Winter Solstice Competition Runner-up: Hannah Ray, with You Were Born in a Pandemic

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April 17, 2025/ Bridget Holding/ 3 Comments
Writing Competition, Writing Process
Hannah Ray
December 07, 2022

Drinking a Cup of Tea

December 07, 2022/ Bridget Holding
Drinking a Cup of Tea

The guided writing ‘experiment’ for this winter season…

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December 07, 2022/ Bridget Holding/ Comment
Inspiring Quotes, Nature Writing, Newsletter, Writing Process, Writing Competition, Writing Prompts, Writing Tips
cup of tea, close observation, nature writing, Basho, Sandra Marchetti, Meena Kandasamy
July 04, 2022

Wild Words Competition Runner-up: Michael Forester

July 04, 2022/ Bridget Holding
Wild Words Competition Runner-up: Michael Forester

Once, in millennium not long before this one, I lived in a Forest…

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July 04, 2022/ Bridget Holding/ Comment
Writing Process, Writing Competition
Michael Forester
June 28, 2022

Wild Words Competition Winner: Helen Chambers

June 28, 2022/ Bridget Holding
Wild Words Competition Winner: Helen Chambers

Martha’s story began, in the way of many, as a glimmer in the back of my mind…

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June 28, 2022/ Bridget Holding/ Comment
Writing Process, Writing Competition
Helen Chambers
June 22, 2021

A Writer's Process: Karen Lethlean

June 22, 2021/ Bridget Holding
A Writer's Process: Karen Lethlean

Bleached Bones was born from experiences walking parts of the Overland Track in Tasmania Australia.

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June 22, 2021/ Bridget Holding/ 2 Comments
Writing Process, Writing Competition, Writing Tips
Karen Lethlean
June 04, 2021

A Writer's Process: Pam Keevil

June 04, 2021/ Bridget Holding
A Writer's Process: Pam Keevil

Would Hawkwood College, near Stroud have any online courses during the pandemic? Yes. One which immediately appealed was called Nature Writing

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June 04, 2021/ Bridget Holding/ 2 Comments
Writing Competition, Writing Process, Writing Tips
Pam Keevil
April 26, 2021

A Writer's Process: Hetta S. Lyon - Competition Runner-up

April 26, 2021/ Bridget Holding
A Writer's Process: Hetta S. Lyon - Competition Runner-up

Inspiration rarely strikes me when I am sitting at my desk, looking at a cursor blink at me from the whiteness of a blank document.

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April 26, 2021/ Bridget Holding/ 2 Comments
Nature Writing, My Writing Day, Newsletter, Storytelling, Writing Competition, Writing Process
Hetta Lyon, Competition Runner-up
March 18, 2021

A Storyteller's Process: Competition Winner Janine Lehane

March 18, 2021/ Bridget Holding
A Storyteller's Process: Competition Winner Janine Lehane

I was drawn to Bridget's prompt, the Margaret Atwood quotation about water, and I began to think of associations that were meaningful to me.

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March 18, 2021/ Bridget Holding/ 2 Comments
Writing Competition, Nature Writing
Storyteller's Process, A Writer's Process, competition winner, Competition
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Wild Words - Nature-inspired creative writing for wild writers and storytellers with Bridget Holding.

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Wild Words Competition Runner-up: Hannah Ray
Finding The Fresh Voice Within
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Live Afresh
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