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Weekend Journaling Prompt

How We Live Now: Sarah Moss on memory and meaning-making

December online retreat

Weekend Journaling Prompt

'We have nothing to fear from despair...'

✎Subscriber thread: Grounding strategies

This month at The Clearing

In November

Guest post: The bliss of cancelled plans

True Stories Book Club: 'Giving Up the Ghost'

Why we need Halloween

In conversation: friendship and creative careers

Weekend Journaling Prompt

True Stories Book Club with Kate Fox

What it's like to grow up autistic

A week on retreat

In conversation: Carson Ellis

October Retreat playback

In October

October's Creative Questions

Reminder: October's Retreat

This month at The Clearing

Reading Guide: Giving up the Ghost

Sunday Journaling Prompt for all subscribers

Sunday Journaling Prompt

True Stories Book Club with Oliver Burkeman

The agency of knowing

In conversation: Kristin Hersh

Sunday Journaling Prompt

Things to do when you’re stuck

Reading Guide: Meditation for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

Subscriber thread: Quiet and Quick

October's online retreat

In September

September's Creative Questions

This month at The Clearing

Sunday Journaling Prompt

True Stories Book Club with Lucy Jones

✎What's capturing your stray attention?

Learning all the wrong lessons

In conversation: folk

✎Subscriber thread: choose your art

Reading Guide: Matrescence by Lucy Jones

Sunday Journaling Prompt

Why awe matters

In August

August's Creative Questions

Sunday Journaling Prompt

Ten quotes that help me to think about writing

This Month at The Clearing

✎ What's capturing your stray attention?

For your stray attention this weekend

In conversation: Clay

True Stories Book Club with Daniel Tammet

Sunday journalling prompt

On being a tourist

Guest post: Stray Attention

Guest post: On Letting Go

Reading guide: Daniel Tammet's Nine Minds

Sunday guest journalling prompt

Guest post: the power of a playlist

Stray Attention

Why to write

True Stories Book Club with Tom Newlands

The Wintering course is here!

Subscriber thread: alternative summer reads

Sunday journalling prompt

The Summer Solstice

Beeeeeeep

'Build a community, not a readership'

✎Subscriber thread: Introvert parties

June Retreat playback

Sunday journalling prompt

Resources for the June retreat

Tom Newlands' Only Here, Only Now

June's Creative Questions

✎What's capturing your stray attention?

In parallel

Samantha Irby on being a person

✎Subscriber thread: Apple Music 100

Our next digital retreat!

Sunday journalling prompt

Catherine Coldstream on life as a nun

✎Subscriber thread: What would summon you?

What's been capturing your stray attention?

The luxury of constraint

Samantha Irby’s Quietly Hostile

Sunday journalling prompt

The Roaring

✮Five Brilliant Things✮

✐What's been capturing your stray attention?

Being Hedge

The Essay Question

✎Community question: What are your favourite essays?

Sunday journalling prompt

April's Creative Questions

✐ Members' thread: What's been capturing your Stray Attention?

For your Stray Attention this weekend…

The problem with dresses

Sunday journalling prompt

Sakura Diaries, part 3

Sakura Diaries, part 2

Catherine Coldstream’s ‘Cloistered’

The Sakura Diaries, part 1

Elissa & Katherine talk… publishing

The shopkeeper’s granddaughter

How to talk about your work in public

✮Five Brilliant Things✮

✐ Members' thread: What's been caputuring your stray attention?

Sunday *meditation* prompt

Maggie Smith on divorce, vulnerability and new lives

✮Five Brilliant Things✮

Sometimes breathing is just really nice

Enchantment paperback day!

Sunday journalling prompt

Why magic matters

Live Enchantment dates and an AMA

✍︎ What's been capturing your stray attention?

For your stray attention this weekend

Today's retreat details

Guest post: My nervous makedown

Welcome to your February retreat

✮Five Brilliant Things✮

Sunday journalling prompt

Maggie Smith’s 'You Could Make This Place Beautiful'

Using The Clearing as a podcast!

For your stray attention this weekend

✮Five Brilliant Things✮

Subscriber bonus: Creative Questions recording

Elissa & Katherine talk… boundaries

Sunday journalling prompt

✮Five Brilliant Things✮

A clean slate, with your own face on

Coming up at The Retreat...

For your stray attention this weekend

Sharon Salzberg on love and connection

Sunday journalling prompt

How I start a new book

For your stray attention this weekend

Elissa & Katherine talk… bravery

Sunday journalling prompt

Sharon Salzberg’s Finding Your Way