I should clarify: #LiteraryLandscapes is not yet a paying venue, other than saying thank you with a one-year subscription to the print version of The New Territory.

Literary Landscapes - The New Territory Magazine CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We seek brief essays (400-600 words), accompanied by a photo. See a list of authors we're seeking, or pitch your own.

A call for contributors to #LiteraryLandscapes: Have you visited a literary place in the Midwest? (all terms broadly construed) Write about it! Send me a pitch. See here for details and a(n incomplete) list of possible subjects: newterritorymag.com/midwest/lite...

Real quick re-upping this call for #LiteraryLandscapes — I love to work with people on their weird little enthusiasms!

Literary Landscapes - The New Territory Magazine CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We seek brief essays (400-600 words), accompanied by a photo. See a list of authors we're seeking, or pitch your own.

Periodical call for #LiteraryLandscapes: do you have a favorite Midwestern author? a literary place in the Midwest that you've visited or live nearby? Write about it! Send me a pitch, details and a list of possible subjects: newterritorymag.com/midwest/lite...

Charles Dickens – Lebanon, Illinois - The New Territory Magazine Charles Dickens in Illinois. Finding places where the whispers of the spirits occasionally break through. Literary Landscapes by Ryan Byrnes.

Charles Dickens & the Mermaid House Inn—exploring the famous British author’s stopover in Lebanon, IL, finding places where the whispers of the spirits occasionally break through. #LiteraryLandscapes by Ryan Byrnes. #Dickens #LebanonIL #Illinois newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...

Stuart Dybek – Chicago, Illinois - The New Territory Magazine Stuart Dybek & 12th Street Beach—Chicago, IL, and the way memories bind us to place. Literary Landscapes by E.N. Couturier.

Stuart Dybek & 12th Street Beach—Chicago, IL, and the way memories bind us to place. #LiteraryLandscapes by E.N. Couturier. #Dybek #ChicagoParkDistrict #12thStreet #Chicago #Illinois newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...

Harvey Pekar – Cleveland Heights, Ohio - The New Territory Magazine Harvey Pekar Park at Coventry Rd & Euclid Heights Blvd—a modest park honoring the master of Midwestern mundanity. Literary Landscapes by Joseph S. Pete.

Harvey Pekar Park at Coventry Rd & Euclid Heights Blvd—a modest park honoring the master of Midwestern mundanity. #LiteraryLandscapes by @nwi-jsp.bsky.social. #HarveyPekar #AmericanSplendor #Cleveland #ClevelandHeights #Ohio newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...

Danez Smith – St. Paul, Minnesota - The New Territory Magazine Danez Smith & Black Youth Healing Arts Center—what it takes to create spaces for poets of color to thrive. Literary Landscapes by Chandler Peters-DuRose.

Danez Smith & Black Youth Healing Arts Center—what it takes to create spaces for poets of color to thrive. #LiteraryLandscapes by Chandler Peters-DuRose. #DanezSmith #BYHAC #StPaul #TwinCities #Minnesota newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...

Renee Nicole Good – Minneapolis, Minnesota - The New Territory Magazine Renee Nicole Good at 34th Street & Portland Ave—protestors murdered by ICE in the Minneapolis Bloodlands. Literary Landscapes by Ellen Lansky with Greta Gaard.

Renee Nicole Good at 34th Street & Portland Ave—protestors murdered by ICE in the Minneapolis Bloodlands. #LiteraryLandscapes by Ellen Lansky with Greta Gaard. #ReneeGood #Minneapolis #TwinCities #Minnesota newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...

I love #literarylandscapes and the kind of place-based work they do. Such a rich issue.

Literary Landscapes - The New Territory Magazine A project about the ways that Midwestern literature is relevant today—how we engage with the stories we tell about our region.

Read and share Vol. 18 of #LiteraryLandscapes — we have essays on Renee Nicole Good, Danez Smith, Harvey Pekar, Stuart Dybek, and Charles Dickens. 2/2 newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...

A series of five portraits with a blue background. The faces are Harvey Pekar (drawn in comic style), Stuart Dybek, Renee Nicole Good, Danez Smith, and Charles Dickens (artistic portrait).

The newest volume of #LiteraryLandscapes is here! It's a timely issue, with an essay on Renee Nicole Good and two from the Twin Cities. 1/2

I would particularly love to feature authors from Iowa or the Dakotas, which have so far been underrepresented in #LiteraryLandscapes

Literary Landscapes - The New Territory Magazine CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We seek brief essays (400-600 words), accompanied by a photo. See a list of authors we're seeking, or pitch your own.

Anyone have a good story to tell about a place related to Midwestern literature? I am working on the next volume of #LiteraryLandscapes and would love to see your pitch! Here's a list of potential sites: newterritorymag.com/midwest/lite...

Mark Twain – London, England - The New Territory Magazine Twain in London, between the upheavals of travel and the resumption of familiar routines. Literary Landscapes by Susan Kumin Harris.

Mark Twain & 23 Tedworth Square—Twain in London, between the upheavals of travel and the resumption of familiar routines. #LiteraryLandscapes by Susan K. Harris. #MarkTwain #London newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...

Mark Twain – London, England - The New Territory Magazine A ruined corner of London that will always be a little paradise for Twain’s ghost. Literary Landscapes by Thomas Ruys Smith.

Mark Twain & Dollis Hill—a ruined corner of London that will always be a little paradise for Twain’s ghost. #LiteraryLandscapes by @thomasruyssmith.com. #MarkTwain #DollisHill #GladstonePark #London newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...

Mark Twain – Hartford, Connecticut - The New Territory Magazine Twain’s Midwestern books, written in his beautiful and eccentric Hartford home. Literary Landscapes by Jacques Lamarre.

Mark Twain House & Museum—Twain’s Midwestern books, written in his beautiful and eccentric Hartford home. #LiteraryLandscapes by @jerklamerk.bsky.social. #MarkTwain #Hartford #Connecticut @marktwainhouse.bsky.social
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Mark Twain – Elmira, New York - The New Territory Magazine The quirky characters and social dynamics of Twain’s time in Elmira, New York. Literary Landscapes by Matt Seybold.

Mark Twain’s writing study—the quirky characters and social dynamics of Twain’s time in Elmira, NY. #LiteraryLandscapes by @mattseybold.bsky.social. #MarkTwain #Elmira #NewYork @marktwain.bsky.social newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...

Mark Twain – Hannibal, Missouri - The New Territory Magazine Discerning fact from fiction regarding Hannibal’s most famous resident. Literary Landscapes by Cindy Lovell.

Mark Twain’s Boyhood Home & Museum—discerning fact from fiction regarding Hannibal, Missouri’s most famous resident. #LiteraryLandscapes by Cindy Lovell. #MarkTwain #Hannibal #Missouri newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...

Enjoyed writing about Mark Twain’s time at Dollis Hill in London for #LiteraryLandscapes 👉 newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...

Five black-and-white portraits of Samuel Clemens (pen name Mark Twain), ranging in age from his teenage to his later years.

We've got a brand-new volume of #LiteraryLandscapes for you to peruse, this time on Mark Twain! Even before you click the link below, check out these portraits—they make me wonder if *anyone* at the turn of the 19-20c was photographed more.

Dramatic skies over the lake here in Ambleside this morning for the first of our MA seminars on Arthur Ransome’s influential ‘Swallows and Amazons’ series ⛵️📚🍃 #LiteraryLandscapes

Literary Landscapes - The New Territory Magazine A project about the ways that Midwestern literature is relevant today—how we engage with the stories we tell about our region.

I've edited a couple fun essays for the next volume of #LiteraryLandscapes, and I'm looking for more! If you have a favorite Midwestern (ish) author and have visited one of their places, pitch me! newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...

Looking forward very much to hosting this symposium at our Ambleside campus tomorrow. We have a fantastic line up of speakers including Dr David Cooper as keynote and a number of our MA graduates who are giving papers 📚🍃 #LiteraryLandscapes

An afternoon of leave yesterday was spent on a gentle sunny meander around Cockshott Point - an area of Windermere’s shore which in the 1920s was in ‘imminent risk of disfigurement’ and which Beatrix Potter campaigned and raised funds to protect 📚🍃 #LiteraryLandscapes

John Bartlow Martin – Herman, Michigan - The New Territory Magazine Smith Lake Camp—a sanctuary in the Upper Peninsula, a place that “is not geared to make your visit painless.”

John Bartlow Martin’s Smith Lake Camp—a sanctuary in the Upper Peninsula, a place that “is not geared to make your visit painless.” #LiteraryLandscapes
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Where tourists seldom tread, part 18: three seaside towns that defy the tides of fashion Ayr, Bangor and Millom routinely bring up the rear in coastal town polls, but they offer a calmer alternative to the brash traditional seaside resorts

Article in The Guardian on seaside towns features a lovely section on Millom and Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson's connections to the town: Where tourists seldom tread, part 18: three seaside towns that defy the tides of fashion www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/... #LiteraryLandscapes #Poetry&Place

Ricorditi di me, che son la Pia; Siena mi fé, disfecemi Maremma: Remember me, for I am Pia; Siena made me, Maremma unmade me: Dante Purgatorio Canto V

#WallsOnWednesday
#WednesdayWalls
#Photography #Night
#PiaDeTolomei #Dante
#LiteraryLandscapes
#Literature #Poetry
#StoneAndPoetry
#SieneseNights

la Pia🤍 and Dante

Ricorditi di me
Remember me
Acuérdate de mí
Souviens-toi de moi

Toni Morrison – Lorain, Ohio - The New Territory Magazine Toni Morrison’s childhood home—Black American resilience amidst the shared, cruel landscapes of white supremacy in Lorain, OH.

@taralconley.com’s #LiteraryLandscapes essay discusses this visit to Morrison’s home! newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...

Lingering Inland

Check it out: the pre-order link for Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest! This book collects dozens of #LiteraryLandscapes essays, and pre-orders will ship in November—perfect for Christmas! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...