Announcing the ten shortlisted writers for Stone & Sky, our writer in residence in the Cotswolds National Landscape

Andrew Hykel Mears and Claire Carroll met at Bath Spa University in class called Writing & The Environment. Andrew suggested a joint writing project, in which nothing was sacred. The result of that project is TREATMENT, the forthcoming book length text released in September 2026 with Dialect Press.

Read the judges’ comments and shortlisted poems from Morag Anderson, Kara Barlow, Helen Bowell, Rachel Curzon, Karen Downs-Barton, Linda France, Nasim Luczaj, Rona Luo, Jessica Mookherjee and Yvonne Reddick.

Announcing the four writers selected for Weight of Light, our co-creative artist led project exploring how local communities might live and adapt in the near future.

Dialect is delighted to be partnering with Cotswolds National Landscapes on Stone & Sky, a new Writer in Residence scheme that invites a writer from an underrepresented community to spend nine months working closely and slowly with the landscape and its people. 

Sam Francis is one of eight emerging writers across the South West to be selected for the Word Space scheme 2026-2027 with Literature Works. We thought we’d get to know Sam a little bit better via the medium of our questions from the edge.

Dialect is seeking four writers from across the Stroud District to join the next round of Weight of Light, our co-creative artist led project exploring how our communities might live and adapt in the near future.

The Weight of Light is a project which commissioned an inter-generational team of four writers from the Stroud District. These brilliant writers co-created writing with a hyperlocal lens about positive ways of adapting and moving through changes brought about by climate crisis. This editorial approach has been rooted in peer care, offering a model for artist-led climate communication.

A collaborative interview with Ilse Pelder, Hilary Watson & Alice Willits, ahead of publication of their superb new Dialect Press pamphlet We’ll Meet You There

Pop Up Poetry at Stroud Market

Vasiliki Albedo & Lucy Holme talk about their excellent forthcoming pamphlet Sardines, out on Dialect Press in February 2026.

Ella Duffy & Adam Horovitz talk about the process of putting together their superb upcoming pamphlet from Dialect Press, Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Announcing a new collaboration

‘Every year, the ospreys migrate. Every day, people leave where they are. There will only be more; the ospreys seeking their perches, the climate refugees from water and fire. We all need a liveable home.’ Jenny Rose writes about Ospreys and their return to a rapidly changing landscape.

Announcing a New Collaboration: Sean Borodale & Alun Hughes

Kate Dent shares her poem Kith and explains below how she wrote, workshopped and edited the piece.

Charlotte Couse is a recent participant on Level Up! our poetry workshop designed for those looking to level up their writing and get published. Here Charlotte shares her poem The Dead Solder and explains below how she wrote and edited the piece

Announcing a new commission from Dialect Press, a collaboration between Vasiliki Albedo and Lucy Holme

Announcing a new collaboration for 2025 with Ella Duffy and Adam Horovitz from Dialect Press

Writer and photographer Emma Lord on understanding her own writing process, and moving beyond the definitions provided by others