Way Makers – Kerri Andrews

Wild Writers Festival 2024

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Way Makers – Kerri Andrews

A follow-up to her bestselling Wanderers, Peebles-based Kerri Andrews’s Way Makers is the first anthology of women’s writing about walking. A testament to the rich literary heritage created by generations of women walker-writers, the book takes readers from the 18th Century to present day as it traces a long tradition of women’s walking literature.  

 For the trailblazers in this anthology – Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Nan Shepherd, Cheryl Strayed, Raynor Winn and many more – walking is a source of creativity and comfort; a means of expressing grief, longing and desire. It is also a complicated activity: walking represents freedom but is also sometimes tinged with danger and fear.   

A writer and Reader in Women’s Literature and Textual Editing at Edge Hill University, Kerri is also editor of the first-ever edition of Nan Shepherd’s correspondence, published by Edinburgh University Press. Kerri appears in conversation with Anna Fleming, author of Time On Rock.