Welcome!
I'm Hannah, a writer, facilitator, activist and creative mentor based in the UK. I’m also a regular writing contributor to the transformational learning platform, Advaya, and work within the climate space, focusing on fostering resilience amongst young people.
Through this newsletter, I hope to create a community for the quiet creatives, the sensitive and sometimes introverted creatives who are seeking to share and nurture their creative expression through writing. By Hannah is a reader-supported publication; to receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
About By Hannah
By Hannah is a newsletter for tending to our personal and ecological roots. It’s for the quiet creatives. My hope for this newsletter is to instigate enlivening conversations about our place amongst the wider ecosystem of life, as well as nourishing our creativity capacity as individuals and collectively. My hope is to weave a web of creatives who are rooted in their personal, collective and ecological hope.
Words that inspire this newsletter include:
Reciprocal
Abundance
Ecosystem
Kinship
Creativity
Quiet
Slowness
Some other things about me…I love to move my body, especially in the great outdoors; this includes running, hiking, and climbing and I hope to dabble more in cycling this year. You’ll find me scaling hills in the Peak District and Lake District; journalling in my local park; and writing this newsletter amongst the pockets of busyness that is modern life.
What You Get
This newsletter aims to share my weekly musings on what it means to be human, and things I’m currently musing on, exploring, and tending to. It’ll also be a place for my explorations into creativity; ecological writing practises and how to tend to our inner creative life.
£0/Mo:
The By Hannah monthly essay at the start of the month, with personal reflections and ecological musings.
£6/Mo or £52/year:
For paying subscribers, you’ll receive access to free Monday letters, plus:
Seasonal Writing Retreats: These are digital retreats and resting spaces where we come together as a group and tend to our creativity, write, and lean into the emergence of our personal practices, rooted in care and collaboration.
Unlimited Comments: This is the space for community connection and conversation. This is where we will get to know one another as a community, sharing ideas and our work.
£120/year: Founding Member — everything above, plus deeper-dive opportunities in our Seasonal Writing Retreats.
Voice memo and video content
Index by category:
Creativity:
Personal reflections:
Ecological reflections:
Upcoming:
I’m excited to share that the first Seasonal Writing Retreat, Rewild Your Writing. These are digital retreats and resting spaces where we come together as a group and tend to our creativity, write, and lean into the emergence of our creative practices, rooted in care and collaboration.
To be part of the next Seasonal Writing Retreat, you must be a paid subscriber.
Why pay for writing?
We are living in a really exciting time, where readers can directly support the creatives they resonate with, where possible. For paid subscribers, your support of my work allows me to keep creating and gives me the capacity to keep writing and sharing. It also helps shift the paradigm of the “starving artist”; writing and creating “content” takes a lot of time and energy, so showing support for the work you love is invaluable. Paid subscribers also support me in offering free subscriptions to those who need them. If being a paid member isn’t for you, you’ll still get access to four letters a month.
Give Back
For every 100 paid sign-ups, I will offer 10 paid subscriptions for free.
I believe we can co-create a new way of being through intentional, grounded work of self-inquiry, community, and creativity. This is a daily practice. Are you ready to join?
Let’s get to know each other better…
Now, I’d love to learn more about you!
Since there are many new faces, let’s get to know each other in the comments section below. Who are you? What do you write about? Why did you join this community? What do you hope to get out of this space? What gets you excited to create?
Love, Hannah
