Enchanted Visions
Nick Hunt
6th July, 2023
To mark the publication of Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt explores how alternate histories can help imagine different futures
Nick Hunt
Nick is a writer and walker. His non-fiction books include Outlandish, about walking four of Europe's 'unlikely landscapes', Where the Wild Winds Are, which tells the story of four walks following Europe's named winds, Walking the Woods and the Water, about a 2,500-mile walk from Holland to Istanbul, and The Parakeeting of London, a work of gonzo ornithology about feral ring-necked parakeets. His fiction includes Loss Soup and Other Stories and rjust published Red Smoking Mirror/i>.
He has contributed short stories and essays to Dark Mountain since Issue 1, and is now an editor and co-director of the project. He also performs as a storyteller. Currently he lives in Bristol.
My Posts
Peace and Fire
Nick Hunt
7th November, 2022
First post in a thread of stories about place and time: Nick Hunt follows the Walk of Peace trail in Slovenia through a landscape scarred by frontlines and wildfires
Regeneration from the Ruins
Nick Hunt
31st August, 2022
Thunderstone: A true story of losing one home and finding another, by Nancy Campbell (Elliott...
Genius Loci
Nick Hunt
9th December, 2020
Nick Hunt climbs over the mindwall to review 'The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us' by Nick Hayes for the second post in our Of Earth and Empire series
How to Walk Across Europe
Nick Hunt
28th May, 2020
To launch our new series about walking, here is an audio field guide to crossing a continent on foot
Burying a Robin
Nick Hunt
30th March, 2020
Nick Hunt brings you the third in our series of reflections on the coronavirus pandemic
Vault of the Wordmonger
Nick Hunt
13th November, 2019
Second post the new series, Lost Lexicon is a short story by Nick Hunt, set in a damaged future world where words – locked away for years – are starting to re-emerge from deep beneath the earth. Image by Kahn & Selesnick.
