… or how my transition into a wooden tiny house perched on stone legs in sandy soil intertwines with my Rewilding Saint project, creating a mid-spring ritual. My personal lived experience (the inspiration): At the […]
Category: Dutch Wood Stories
How to write nonhuman characters in healing fiction
This blogpost is based on my 20 minute talk (15 April) during the “Join the Orca Uprising!” Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice. 11th Biennial EASLCE Conference, hosted in Utrecht University (14–17 April 2026). The photographs are taken […]
Final Days: Help the writing(with)plants care(work)book Take Root
The book The care(work)book grows out of five years of writing(with)plants sessions, collective gatherings where people write alongside plants and landscapes, slowing down to notice, reflect and imagine together new stories, rituals and prototypes. This first edition […]
The Writing(with)plants care(work)book is here – Reserve Your Copy
The book What if writing could become a form of care? The care(work)book grows out of five years of writing(with)plants sessions, collective gatherings where people write alongside plants and landscapes, slowing down to notice, reflect and imagine […]
[Only in Dutch] Van bezielde landschappen in Japan naar betoverde plekken in Nederland en België – doe mee met een online kringgesprek (afgelast)
Deel van de promotie van TUSSENLAND In zomer 2025 organiseer ik live en online momenten voor verbinding en verwondering. Voor mij is mijn nieuwste boek Tussenland een artefact van een groter project, een excuus om […]
Summer (Fever) Tree -the illusion of homecoming in the Netherlands during a heatwave
Strips of textile have been knotted to the oak tree near the St Walrick ruins in Overasselt (near Nijmegen). Not so long ago, the chapel was the final destination of pilgrimages. Undertaken by the people […]
[Only in Dutch] Japanse ervaringen in Vlaanderen en Nederland (speciale actie 07 juni-13 juli 2025)
Ik ben trots op elk boek, verhaal en wetenschappelijk artikel, maar Tussenland is toch een van mijn favorieten. Ik heb jaren gesleuteld aan Tussenland. Voor enkele jaren was Tussenland mijn project aan de Vlaamse schrijversacademie. […]
Myth-ecology, technology and hydrofeminism in Ireland: Púca in The Machine
three artists explore the more-than-human beneath poulaphuca reservoir, wicklow, 2021-22 In Ireland, ancient myths and modern machines coalesce, manifesting a unique myth-ecology, a narrative bridge spanning the past’s spiritual fervor and the present’s technological vigor. […]
Tale from the Lowlands
The Lowlands I call my home, land of swamps and rivers roll towards the sea of North. Through lands of magic roam, lands of Nether, lands of Holle, fields flat where wraiths of mist move forth, […]
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 