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Narrative non-fiction, creative non-fiction, and literary non-fiction

Jan 25, 2024 • Yasmin Chopin

Jan 5, 2023 • Yasmin Chopin

What is Place Writing?

Aug 9, 2022 • Yasmin Chopin

Northumberland Walking

Apr 30, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

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London

Hold on to your favourite hat, it's holiday time!

Where will you be celebrating the turn of the year?

Dec 17, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

As We Search For Our Unique Style

Anselm Kiefer And Vincent Van Gogh Get Together In A Room

Nov 19, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Parody Is One Way To Practice Style

A 5-minute Sprint From Kings Cross To St Pancras Station

Oct 1, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Notes from a Place Writing Symposium in London

Jun 25, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Rodinsky’s Room by Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair

A Mystery Story

Feb 19, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem

Finding Treasure on the River Thames

Jan 22, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Who wants to be an Art Critic?

Burlington House and Piccadilly

Oct 9, 2024 • Yasmin Chopin

Writing a Response

Jun 5, 2024 • Yasmin Chopin

People and Place

Sep 2, 2023 • Yasmin Chopin

A Crypt Experience

Writer in Residence

Dec 3, 2022 • Yasmin Chopin

Edinburgh

Poetry in the City of Edinburgh

A Conversation And Prompt With Jennifer Zarin

Oct 22, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Transient Moments Captured in an Edinburgh Gallery

With Mike Nelson, British-born Artist and Sculptor

Sep 3, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Edinburgh Fringe Programme is the Size of a Telephone Directory

And News of a Bonus Post for Paid Subscribers

Jul 30, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

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A Date in a Bookshop

Jul 16, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Design

A Mediterranean Holiday

And a Sensory Experience

May 28, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Living in a Barn Conversion

For the Second Time

May 14, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Writing through the Eyes of a Patient

Room with a View

Apr 2, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Reminding us of mortality in Norwich

Aug 28, 2024 • Yasmin Chopin

Hearth of the Home

An exercise in Ekphrasis

Aug 7, 2024 • Yasmin Chopin

A Container for Art and Memories

Feb 2, 2023 • Yasmin Chopin

Place

On the Banishment and Death of Napoleon

An Exercise in Ekphrasis, the Use of Visual Art as a Literary Device

Jan 14 • Yasmin Chopin

Parody Is One Way To Practice Style

A 5-minute Sprint From Kings Cross To St Pancras Station

Oct 1, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

The Ground Mutated into a Vision of Flowing Water

The Park Landscape during Covid-19

Aug 20, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

A Mediterranean Holiday

And a Sensory Experience

May 28, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Northumberland Walking

L S Lowry and King Charles III

Apr 30, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Abandoned Places

Apr 16, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Writing through the Eyes of a Patient

Room with a View

Apr 2, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

A Place for Remembering

Mar 19, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Fictional Worlds in Place Writing?

Jan 8, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

The World Perceived through Touch

A Sensory Take on Place

Dec 4, 2024 • Yasmin Chopin

Place - a case study

Oct 2, 2023 • Yasmin Chopin

Maps as prompts

Writing about Place

Jul 1, 2023 • Yasmin Chopin

Recommended Books

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Research

Create Constraints And Unlock Creativity

Tips From Two Foremost Writers In The Oulipo Group

Nov 26, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Notes from a Place Writing Symposium in London

Jun 25, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Critical Reading

Putting a Label on Place Writing

Mar 5, 2025 • Yasmin Chopin

Who wants to be an Art Critic?

Burlington House and Piccadilly

Oct 9, 2024 • Yasmin Chopin

Home & Place Writing

Home & Place Writing

A publication for professionals who want to pivot and prioritise their writing to engage with nature, home, and place.

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