Amy Liptrot

Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea. Writer in Orkney/London/Berlin. Reformed trampolinist, outdoor swimmer, author of The Outrun.  Farming, birds, poetry, bass. Follow me on twitter @amy_may or contact my agent [email protected]

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Some reviews of The Outrun

from the Guardian by Will Self

from the Scotsman by Stuart Kelly

from the Spectator by Horatio Clare

from the New Statesman by Ben Myres

from the Independent by Doug Johnstone

from Caught by the River by Emma Warren

from The Island Review by Morag MacInnes

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The Outrun - events summer 2016

May 6 - Swindon Festival of Literature

May 12 - Booked! West Dumbartonshire Festival of Ideas

May 26 - International Festival of Literature Dublin, with Olivia Laing

May 27 - Greenwich Book Festival, London

June 4 - Hay Festival

June 11 - Emerald St Festival, London, with Bryony Gordon

June 16 - Borders Book Festival

June 17-19 - Also Festival, Warwickshire

June 23 - The Real Story, Manchester

July 8 - Papay, Orkney

July 30 - Port Eliot Festival, Caught by the River Stage

August 6 - Caught by the River Thames

Aug 9 - With the Magnetic North, London

August 12 - Shakespeare & Son bookshop, Berlin

Aug 21 - Green Man Festival

Aug 25 - Word Power Books, Edinburgh

Aug 26 - Edinburgh Book Festival, with Melissa Harrison

Aug 28 - RSPB Corncrake event, Orkney Brewery

Sept 1 - Orkney Science Festival

Sept 3/4 - Festival No.6, Portmeirion

Sept 21 - Faber Social, London

Sept 17 - Good Life Experience, Hawarden

Sept 30 - Wigtown Book Festival

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For Vice

Interview with EJ, a sheep farmer

Summoning Celtic goddesses on the Isle of Skye

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Diving into Berghain: Seeking the sea in a techno club

On digital nomads and ghosts

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For Loss Lit

A prose poem: Migrants and Vagrants

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For the Guardian

Looking for birds of prey in Berlin

Book review: A Hebridean Journey

On Orkney as the UK’s ‘least neurotic’ place

Sailing north to Shetland’s Screenplay festival

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For the Scotsman

Review of Papay Gyro Nights art festival

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Night Life, for Aeon magazine

On the lonely midnight corncrake trail 

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Features for Living Orkney

On snorkeling, with Anne Bignall

On the Stronsay bird reserve

On social media in the isles

On the Polar Bear Club

Interview with Ian Tait: wildlife-friendly farmer

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Reviews for The Orcadian

Data Stories by Laura Watts and Dawn Nafus

Orkney College UHI's Fine Art Degree Show

Dawn Collins's Bowls, Weaves and Words

Orcadia and Other Stories by Walker and Bromwich

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For The Island Review

A month in Atlantis

Review of Evie Wyld's All The Birds, Singing

Interview with photographer Premysl Fojtu

Review of Ebban an’ Flowan poetry primer

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For Buzzfeed

26 Signs You Grew Up On A Scottish Island

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Curious Isles: A column about life on Orkney for Caught by the River

On dry stone dyking

On astronomy

On ambergris

On lambing

On sea swimming

On abandoned islands

On listening at night

On corncrakes

On Papay

On noctilucent cloud

On a stone kiss

On a year of swims

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For Orkney Science Festival

Der Mond

A sleepwalk among the planets

Interview with astronomer Marek Kukula

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Iceland Airwaves festival in Reykjavík

Review for Clash

Reviews for Reykjavík Grapevine

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Sailing north to Shetland Screenplay film festival

Review for the Guardian film blog

Review for the Quietus