Writer looks forward to Walk The Chalk extravaganza in South Downs
September 8, 2023
Writer Alinah Azadeh looks forward to the “Walk The Chalk Festival” and bids farewell after three years as the Writer in Residence at Seven Sisters Country Park. Thanks for all your hard work and inspiration Alinah!
September is the final month of my three-year writer residency at Seven Sisters Country Park & Sussex Heritage Coast. Thank you everyone for all the support, it’s been a huge honour to work across this exquisite landscape and to curate and co-write a collection of new stories and poems that now has a legacy for several years though our listening posts project We Hear You Now. Thanks to all the brilliant writers, the National Park Authority and Arts Council England.
We have some wonderful live events coming up! We are part of Walk the Chalk Festival from 20 to 24 September with a free, creative programme, mainly at Seven Sisters Country Park and including the launch of new work and self-access creative writing guides! Booking is essential for most events – check them out here.
My final performance on-site will be on the evening of Sunday 24 September as part of Katy Beinart’s Re-enchanted installation and the closing event for Walk the Chalk at the Pump Barn and Exceat Hill, at Seven Sisters Country Park.
You can also visit Lewes now to find a celebration of my residency and art as part of Windows of Wonder, part of Artwave Festival and Wonder, an exhibition at Fitzroy House in October, where I will be performing South Downs-inspired poetry with Razia Aziz on 21 October for The Wonder Sessions.
You can visit Lewes Climate Hub from 16 to 30 September and you can sit and listen to our climate-focused stories and then try some creative writing as part of their Climate Justice season. Finally, grab your copy of the SDNPA-supported Covert Magazine 03, on the theme of the South Downs, published by Writing Our Legacy – I have written the introduction.
Thank you everyone, and see you on the Downs somewhere soon….! Alinah
