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🌍 Planet earth needs change and needs it now 🌍
Strike #10 explores stories of transformation, from a different way to practise the law to rediscovering our sense of play, an "orchestra" of climate solutions to losing ourselves in the woods...
OUT NOW: stranger-collective.com/issu…
HNY lit friends, we're back in the building 💥 and can't wait to read your submissions to issue 6 of The Lit magazine. Get glitchy and find out how to submit your writing here. One week left! theliteraryplatform.com/news…#writingcommunity@amy_lilwall @aprilroach28
The December slump is out, and a fresh new year is IN (much easier said with the winter sun pouring into our studio this afternoon).
Re-energised, renewed, and refreshed, we're back to it – busy stacking up plans and getting stuck in for an exciting year ahead ✨
#HNY #2024
Stranger friend and travel writer @oliveryberry has a new winter get-away piece in this month's @theipaper. Track wild wolves in Sweden, indulge in Igloo fondue in France OR try out night swimming in the Lake District @anotherplace_uk 🏊♀️
Read more here: inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/…
🌾 "It locks away carbon, creates diverse habitats and thriving fishing conditions. Seagrass is special and the stage is being set for its resurgence..."
Read more about our mini shoreline expedition over on our website: stranger-collective.com/seag…@ProjectSeagrass
🍷#ReadBetweenTheWines is BACK🍷
What's that? Drinking and chatting about short stories. Yes please.
The book group with a difference returns, and this time, it's hitting the cosy nook of @espressini39 in #Falmouth on 7 December at 7pm.
More info at: ow.ly/rFcH50Q7meW..
A full few days @BlueEarthSummit. Positive change-focused pitches, presentations & conversations, each interesting, informative and even surprising in their own right.
Here’s a round-up of highlights, from systemic change to seeing the whole story.
stranger-collective.com/the-…
Paul from our team will be in attendance at @blueearthsummit this week (11-13 October) and reporting as 'Stranger at the Summit' on what sustainability storytelling is all about...
If you're going along and have an opinion to share, he's all ears.
#BESummit23
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." –#JohnSteinbeck
Struggling to round up your first few ideas? We can help. And it starts with blowing brainstorming myths right out of the water...🧠 ow.ly/GPSo50PMG7l
📍Join us from 12 noon at the St. Paul’s Cathedral end of Millennium Bridge (Peter’s Hill) to join the Queue over the bridge.
👔 Dress up smart to show our support as business and professionals.
📣 Spread the word and register at bit.ly/Q4ClimateNature
🚨 Applications are now OPEN! 🚨
We've got together with the team at @GoodFestivalUK to offer two FREE writer passes to their north #Cornwall festival exploring positive change for individuals, society and the planet.
Find out more and apply here 👉 stranger-collective.com/good… 👈
TGIF? Well, thank god there’s #film (and a pretty darn lovely one at that too).
If you’re in the #Falmouth locale this evening, then drop-in to Roma surf shop where they’ll be screening the beautifully shot ‘Out of Step’ film from 6pm.
@finisterre@PentireDrinks@HarbourBrewing
'I’m never coming back. I’ll write this book on my own!” – Courttia Newland
We go back into the archives with Stranger friend Anna Kiernan (co-director @TheLitPlatform) to revisit why writing is not for the faint of heart...
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📸 Cottonbro via Pexels
"The modern compact city model aims to reverse engineer grey urban spaces back into the green, biodiverse spaces they may have once been."
We explore the idea of 15-minute-cities in ‘Going Hyper’ from our latest issue of #Strike...
🔗 Get your copy: ow.ly/qWNQ50PqIGH
"Really early on, I would deliver a script to a producer, and they’d go, 'This is a bit —' and I’d go: “I know! I hate it!”
Waller-Bridge (ow.ly/Utnt50PqF3x) reminds us that sometimes you have to write the bad version before you can write the good one. #MondayMotivational
School's (almost) out for summer! And while our diaries fill up with fêtes and shoreside frolics, it's important to remember that a holiday can simply be a bit of time to yourself with a decent book in hand (our favourite kind of R&R).
#Summerreads we’re getting stuck into:
1. Burnt Sugar – Avni Doshi
2. Feminism, Interrupted. Disrupting Power – Lola Olufemi @lolaolufemi_@PlutoPress
3. When I Sing, Mountains Dance – Irene Solà
4. The Long Song – Andrea Levy