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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚

@anitasethi.bsky.social

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writer & journalist 📝 📧[email protected] Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje. FRGS. Mancunian 🐝 anitasethi.com

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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hello! May I introduce myself: I’m
an author & wrote a book called I BELONG HERE about #walking the Pennine Way after being racially abused, and have been in anthologies inc Women on Nature.

I also write features, columns & reviews & dabble in broadcasting.

I’m from the great city of #Manchester.

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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to speaking at this British Academy event, ‘Writing Wild Worlds’, as part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social ‘Living With the Planet’ Season

30th October, 18:30
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...

Art Club: Writing Wild Worlds

Explore how creative writing can deepen our connection with the natural world and help us imagine a more hopeful future for our planet through this exciting discussion and interactive creative writing...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · Sep 8

Looking forward to speaking at & chairing Day 2 of the THIRST symposium at Wellcome Collection @wellcometrust.bsky.social including interviewing Elif Shafak - come along!

wellcomecollection.org/events/the-t...

The Thirst Symposium Day Two

Explore the ways water shapes our lives, communities and environments on day two of ‘The Thirst Symposium’.

wellcomecollection.org

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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · Sep 5

The excellent #Todmorden Book Festival has just published its 2025 programme. Pleased to be there sharing the stage with @gritstonebooks.bsky.social colleague @andrewmccloy.bsky.social and @anitasethi.bsky.social. We'll be celebrating the 60th birthday of the Pennine Way.

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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · Aug 27

My next episode of BBC Radio 4's Tweet of the Day programme is broadcast this Sunday 31st August - I've written & presented an episode about seeing a yellow wagtail in the Yorkshire Dales! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Tweet of the Day, Anita Sethi on the Yellow Wagtail

Anita Sethi sees a yellow wagtail in the Yorkshire Dales.

www.bbc.co.uk

Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · Aug 7

Just walked some more of the Great Wall of China, this time at nighttime guided by a full moon!

Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · Aug 3

Today’s walk… on the Great Wall of China!

Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · Jul 25

Hello from China!

Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · Jul 10

Happy publication day xx

Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · Jul 8

Oasis gig organisers are encouraging 80, 000 people to bring “an empty plastic bottle” to the Heaton Park, Manchester gigs this month (middle of a heatwave).

I do hope they’ll accept non-#plastic water bottles too & we won’t be refused entry for not bringing plastic with us…

Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · Jun 19

The sun rising over the River Seine and Notre Dame, Paris.

Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · Jun 15

Sunset at the Rhine River

Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · Jun 4

For the past few years I’ve been more used to having a hospital band rather than a festival band on my beleaguered right arm after shattering it requiring surgery & years of physio.

So it’s moving to have a festival band back on it! Here in Cheltenham festival green room.

Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · Jun 1

Thanks so much Rebecca - much appreciated!

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Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @ladyliminal.bsky.social · Jun 1

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Featuring @anitasethi.bsky.social author of I Belong Here: a journey along the backbone of Britain. A fantastic book that I highly recommend 🙂

Tweet of the Day - Anita Sethi on the Lapwing - BBC Sounds

Nature author Anita Sethi on seeing lapwings soaring above the West Pennine Moors.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · Jun 1

🔺 UPDATE: An Israeli attack near an aid distribution site has reportedly killed more than 20 people in the Gaza Strip, as international efforts to broker a ceasefire appeared to stall

Hamas accepts US ceasefire but adds demands Israel will probably refuse

www.thetimes.com

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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · Jun 1

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

Witnesses say Israeli forces opened fire on people near distribution point run by Israel-backed foundation

www.theguardian.com

Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · Jun 1

Me & the lovely lapwing are on today’s Radio 4 schedule - just before Broadcasting House & after Witnessing History!

Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · May 30

I was commissioned & then de-commissioned to write an essay for an anthology - went to sign the contract for it & the link didn’t work. Very dodgy behaviour.

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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · May 25

#wildflowerhour

Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · May 25

‘Climate change is going to cull us as a species’: folk hero Peggy Seeger on Bob Dylan, the ultimate love song and touring at 90

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

‘Climate change is going to cull us as a species’: folk hero Peggy Seeger on Bob Dylan, the ultimate love song and touring at 90

The musician and activist answers your questions about her marriage to Ewan MacColl, being the inspiration for The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, and her mother’s legacy

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · May 24

I’ve written & presented an episode of BBC Radio 4’s nature programme Tweet of the Day - which will be broadcast on 1st June!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Tweet of the Day, Anita Sethi on the Lapwing

Nature author Anita Sethi on seeing lapwings soaring above the West Pennine Moors.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · May 14

Bruce Springsteen here in my hometown calls on Manchester & the world to rise up against the authoritarianism of Donald Trump… 🎸

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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · May 4

Thank you! 🙏

Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · Apr 29

Thank you x

Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social · Apr 29

“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being."
- Toni Morrison

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