Tanya Shadrick
Tanya Shadrick is founder of The Selkie Press and editor of Wild Woman Swimming by Lynne Roper – a journal of west country waters longlisted for the 2019 Wainwright Prize.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Tanya is a sought-after artist in residence who encourages connection and creativity in those who encounter her. In 2016 she embarked on her Wild Patience Scrolls – a mile of writing composed outdoors, pen on paper, beside the country’s oldest lido. She has since worked with the public in many other extraordinary locations, including Virginia Woolf’s garden on the Sussex Downs, a listed National Trust cabin on a cliffside by the wild west country sea, and the Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature in Switzerland.
A regular contributor to Oh Comely, her writing has also appeared in The Guardian, Rakes Progress and The Simple Things. With Fi Glover, she co-presented the three-hour Radio 4 Extra special People Talking, and was featured alongside her mentor the sculptor David Nash in the 2018 BBC Radio 4 show Pursuit of Beauty: Slow Art.
Her memoir, The Cure for Sleep, which is the fable-like story of a life transformed slowly after sudden near death, was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in January 2022. amd released in paperback in April 2023.