A constellation of writers, artists, and wanderers — connected by a shared commitment to slow attention and the long form.
Eleanor Voss has been walking the Hudson River Valley for twelve years, writing about the landscape painters who defined it. Her work appears in five collections.
Thomas Callum writes from the high desert of New Mexico, where he keeps a small observatory and a large library of 19th-century astronomical treatises.
Margaret Alderton is a novelist and essayist based in Edinburgh. She writes primarily about craft, revision, and the strange intimacy of the long project.
"A journal is only as good as the minds it brings into conversation with each other — and with you."Scriptorium · Editorial Mission
A quarterly journal of travel writing and geography, published from Edinburgh since 2014.
Dedicated to writing that lives at the edges of genre — essay, lyric, and the long meditation.
Field notes and photography from writers in motion — published continuously online.
A small press publishing limited edition chapbooks of landscape writing and nature essays.
Slow journalism and long essays on place, ecology, and the built and unbuilt environment.
Institutional partner providing archival access to the Hudson River School collection and image rights.
Scriptorium is accepting submissions for Issue No. 073 — on the theme of Threshold. We are interested in work that takes landscape, art, and language seriously.
Essays: 2,000–8,000 words · Dispatches: 400–1,200 words
Deadline: 15 February · Response within 8 weeks