Melinda Appleby | News & Journal

20 Apr Chiffchaff Choices

Posted at 09:11h in Journal by Melinda Appleby

The Chiffchaffs started calling at Easter, their two tone note tossed out into the March winds from the top of the ash trees.

06 Apr In Search of the Sea-Pie

Posted at 08:59h in News by Melinda Appleby

Two Weeks To Go: My essay In Search of the Sea-Pie to be published on 21 April 2016 in Dunlin Press' new book The Migrant Waders.

03 Apr Landscape Writing Workshop

Posted at 09:26h in News by Melinda Appleby

Of Sand and Water There are two places left on our 25th April creative writing workshop at Santon Downham, near Brandon.

07 Mar The Hungry Gap

Posted at 21:01h in Journal by Melinda Appleby

The yellowhammers are here again. One arrives most mornings around 6.30 but during the day numbers build up and fourteen have been here eating seed that we broadcast for them.

29 Feb Reflecting on Rivers

Posted at 20:55h in Journal by Melinda Appleby

I live on a small inconsequential Suffolk river, the Dove. I like the fact that it moves quietly and unobserved through the landscape, a channel hiding among field boundaries. It was not always so.

18 Feb New Sandlines 2016 Workshop Announced

Posted at 10:25h in News by Melinda Appleby

Join Melinda and Lois on 25th April for a very special reunion writing workshop in the Forestry Commission classroom at Santon Downham, venue of the first Sandlines workshop. The day includes a river walk, time to share your work over the past year, new exercises,...