Resources

In residence at Pells Pool Lido, Lewes (2016)

“Apprenticeships were always seven years: why not place yourself in service to your dream or ambition for that long, using every spare minute on it. Ask yourself: What would you begin now and persist with if you were guaranteed 10 or 20 years in which to master it?” Tanya for BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour

Projects

• The Wild Patience Scrolls: a mile of writing (2016-17)

• Concentrates of Place (2016 to end of life)

• Birds of Firle (2020-2030)

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Books

• The Cure for Sleep: a late-waking life, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (2022)

• Wild Woman Swimming: a journal of west country waters, Selkie Press (2018)

• Watermarks: writing by lido lovers & wild swimmers, Frogmore Press (2017)

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Essays & articles

• Treasure Tins, The Simple Things

• Live Life More Fully, BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour

• Bedtimes Stories as Adult Calls to Adventure, the Waterstones blog

• Birds of Firle Little Toller/The Clearing

• Three Views of a Chalkstone, Little Toller/The Clearing

• Winter Walk, The Guardian

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Podcasts & radio

• Pursuit of Beauty: Slow Art, BBC Radio 4

• Sharon Blackie’s This Mythic Life podcast

• Katherine May’s Wintering Sessions

• The Virginia Woolf Podcast

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Films

• The Cure for Sleep, launch interview

• Reclaiming the Wild, Ilkley Literature Festival

• Wild Writer, Pecha Kucha

• With Melissa Febos, Pages of Hackney

• A Mile of Writing, BBC South East

• The Unexpected Fisher, Canal and River Trust

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Tanya’s decade-long Birds of Firle project

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