HeyJaredWild Muse
Delving into the profound intersections of nature, creativity, and personal healing. Here, creative dreamers can explore their relationship with the natural world and participate in the Wild Muse nature writing prize.
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- Sep 29, 2026
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The Rootbound Self (opens the original)
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“We are the tree who thinks, ‘I cannot make it here because the air says so,’ without realising we are what the air is missing.”<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="346" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fe
‘Spot the Difference’ - Shortlisted for The Wild Muse Nature Writing Prize 2025 (opens the original)
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“Let’s play spot the difference.What’s the prize? You ask. Clean water, I reply.”<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="348" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s
On Rejection and Taking Things Personally (opens the original)
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“There was a sense of muscle memory to it, as if I were stripping away learned inhibitions and letting the body’s original, unbothered intelligence take over.”<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="344" src="https:/
Making Art with Nature with Molly Reeder (opens the original)
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“It’s a continuous reminding myself that it’s okay to feel ease and softness in the process.”I’m still smiling from my chat with watercolour artist yesterday. There were so many highlights for me such as the idea of moving beyond simply looking at nature and coming into relationship with it, where “the more you look, the more you see” and something unseen can then begin to emerge. We also talked about expression as ritual, following pleasure rather than pressure, letting go of what something sho
‘The Words of the River’ - Longlisted for the Wild Muse Nature Writing Prize (opens the original)
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“…behind the storytelling of the piece, there's almost a pleading with the reader to go and listen to their river, or their landscape.”<i
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