Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Helen Mort
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On decoy herons, boxing feints and false epiphany: open.substack.com/pub/helenmor...
🎉 🥳 Arvon PLUS in September with me, Declan Ryan and Sarah Howe. Two experienced editors and…er, me! Who fancies joining us? The course includes extra days to write at the end, unique to the ‘Arvon plus’ format. www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
More herons (a siege of herons??? That’s the plural!) for my paid subscribers: open.substack.com/pub/helenmor...
Guest authors, new to A Time and a Place! @centreplacewriting.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/helenmor...
2 months til my new book is out. Sarah Hall describes STEPMOTHER as ‘brave, graceful and absolutely vital.’ It will be published on July 2nd and you can now pre-order. www.penguin.co.uk/books/476288...
I’m sharing snippets from new, evolving non fiction about herons on my Substack (extra heron content for paid subscribers coming soon!): open.substack.com/pub/helenmor...
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Well, look what’s about to appear in the world!
With work from the collectively and individually fab
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Beatrice Searle
Anna Fleming
Linda Cracknell and
Gail Simmons
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Kerri Andrews
Online Workshop: Writing Poems with Helen Mort – Zoom, Tue 9 Jun 2026 - Writing Poems
Join expert poetry tutor Helen Mort as she helps you put pen to paper in a 90 minute workshop filled with inspirin...
Sometimes finding inspiration isn’t the biggest challenge: it’s moulding your poems into the best shape, the best form, the best sequence or collection once you have the raw material. What makes a gre...
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I had a friend who was heron. The river claimed him for good.
'Euripides said "better a serpent than a stepmother." For a moment, you like the idea of being a single line, winding around everything you touch. A vine.'
'Brave, graceful and absolutely vital' SARA...
Happy to be a contributor to this new anthology published in August!
“Women, Walking: Contemporary Voices on Nature & Belonging”
Edited by Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social
In my contribution, I chronicle my night walk through Manchester.
www.batsfordbooks.com/book/women-w...
