by Jane Smith | Aug 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
“The bats have got it right – the Earth is singing all the time, and we just need to learn to listen to find the right way through …” My short piece ‘Frequencies At Dusk’, all about bats, humans and the need for all of us to tune into the natural world, is out today... 
by Jane Smith | Aug 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
I’m so thrilled that my dystopian piece ‘Salt Water’ has won the Feminist Futures Award, part of the Omega Sci-Fi Awards / Roswell Awards (USA). The Feminist Futures Award recognizes “excellence in feminist storytelling that captures the complexities and other aspects... 
by Jane Smith | Jul 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
I was buying Laura Jean McKay’s The Animals In That Country (Scribe) on the back of it having won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and after I’d read a fantastic interview with the author by Alex Lockwood for XR Writers. But when I took it to the counter at Waterstone’s,... 
by Jane Smith | Jul 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
“A trapped pigeon ripped a small opening into the real world, and just for a moment some humans peered through the gap and saw a glint of truth, left there on the ground like a feather in a car park puddle, dropped from a rock dove’s wing …” My non-fiction piece... 
by Jane Smith | Jun 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
My non-fiction piece ‘Crossings’, a labour of love featuring the toads of Smallwood, Cheshire and their incredible Spring migrations, was short-listed for two major awards, namely the inaugural Future Places Prize for Environmental Literature (UK) and the Van der Mey... 
by Jane Smith | Mar 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
In August 2021 my essay ‘The Year of the Acorns’, dealing with the experience of defending badgers during the government cull, was published by Dark Mountain as part of their Other Kingdoms series. “A fern frond, five feet tall, brushes my cheek and I experience it as...
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