From the Fallow Space offers meditations, prompts, readings and thoughts to help you connect with your own creativity and find fallow spaces in our hectic world.
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From the Fallow Space, Episode 6: A Plot is Hatched in Gildersome
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I wrote this for the Leeds 2023 project Curiosities of Morley. Look out on Writing in Context (https://substack.com/@writingincontext/posts) for more about the process, pitfalls and pleasures experienced during this project soon.
8 Sept 2026
From the Fallow Space - Episode 5
If you enjoyed that quiet moment, you might be interested in attending one or more of my upcoming series of interlinked online writing workshops, Wilder (https://substack.com/@writingincontext/note/c-324430840?r=53vsv&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web).
The workshops will centre on places on the outskirts of our civilisation.
What charm do moors, lakes, woods and caves hold to have featured in so much literature, art, myth and popular culture? What can they and their ecosystems teach us about ourselves, and our connections with each other and the earth? How can we write in relation to them in ways that resonate in the contemporary world?
Dates: Monday 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th October 2026.
Time: 6.30-8.00 pm (GMT).
Cost: £12 per workshop or £40 for the full course.
Discounted price for paid subscribers to Writing in Context: £10 per workshop or £30 for the full course.
Thanks to the Jackie Hagan Fund, I can offer 4 complementary places on the course for people with disabilities or chronic illness who are on low incomes. These will be offered on a first come/first served basis. Just drop me an email. No questions asked.
See my note (https://substack.com/@writingincontext/note/c-324430840?r=53vsv&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web)for further details and how to pay.
Recent Publication
My absurdist screenplay, ‘Zizou and Camus’ features in Umbrellas for Fish, Special Issue 1.
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E-EDITION
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11 Aug 2026
From the Fallow Space: Episode 4
If meditative spaces feel good for you right now, you may want to join us at my next online workshop. Details are below.
Step into the Meadow
A generative writing workshop seeded by meadow spaces, the species that inhabit them and the place they occupy in our imaginations.
Date: Monday 24th August 2026.
Time: 6.30-8.00 pm
Platform: Zoom
FREE for paying subscribers to Writing in Context. You will be sent a link to the workshop nearer the time and a recording after the session.
Cost for free subscribers and other participants: £12. Pay at paypal.me/beckycherriman . If you have any problems, let me know and I’ll send you my bank transfer details.
You will be sent the Zoom link for the workshop. Please contact me by email if this price is prohibitive.
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5 May 2026
From the Fallow Space: Episode 3, Soft Living with Imogen Joyce
Imogen shares how ideas of fallowness and soft living influence her work and we discuss our time as writer and artist in residence for Everything is Connected for The Methodist Modern Art Collection (Bradford 2025). The episode ends with a suggested creative activity for you to try.
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3 Mar 2026
From the Fallow Space: Episode 2, The Night
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27 Jan 2026
From the Fallow Space: Episode 1, Natural Forces Meditation
Find an outdoor space to listen to this podcast meditation and do so on headphones if you can.
Avoid listening while driving or operating machinery as you may become too relaxed.
N.B. If listening isn’t right for you, take the transcription of the meditation with you either as a print out or on your phone and read it to yourself.
If you have enjoyed this experience, please let me know in the comments and consider becoming a free or paid subscriber if you are not already on the list. I am offering 15% off annual subscriptions until the end of January 26.
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