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The Morning Had Become Routine

We had fallen into a pattern of sameness. What we said, what we wore, what we did each day, down to waking at 7am, coffee...

Issue 14: Survival

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 14th edition, on the theme of ‘survival.’ Many thanks to all contributors and the editors...

Cold Hearths

This is a remote part of the Scottish highlands — an abandoned township two miles from the nearest scrap of civilisation, a seldom-used road. It’s...

Issue 13: Fire

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 13th edition, on the theme of ‘fire.’ Fire: /ˈfʌɪə/ origin: Old English fȳr (noun), fȳrian...

Remember, Breathe

1. Decide to study abroad in Scotland for four months. When your family takes to the airport, you’re shaking. Almost turn back. Almost give up....

Isolation in Iceland

Iceland in winter is the closest one can get to living in eternal night. This country is extraterrestrial; a stretch of solar landscape, rock formations,...

Stations of the Sun

Performing in Edinburgh’s world-renowned annual ritual theatre show, the Beltane Fire Festival in the mid-90s with a new tattoo of a Pictish Boar on my...

Issue 11: Ecology

Welcome to Panorama’s 11th edition. In this issue we turn our attention to ecology—from the word’s earliest roots to present-day ecologies which span people, organisms,...

In Praise of Birds

I wrote a poem once, aged sixteen, all about a bird. Red kite screeching, dancing in the air. I see her again now, distant cousin,...

Letter to East Lothian

You’ve put the hills to my back. A changing skyline of colour, Purpling in summer when the heather blooms. And winding roads to nowhere. The...

Issue 9: Borders

In this issue we have work from India, Nigeria, Philippines, Israel, Netherlands, UK, USA, Brazil, South Korea, Thailand, Germany, Italy, and more. In many ways...

La Familia

Even before Andres asked if he could use my bed to have sex with a Turkish woman, I had the feeling our friendship was headed...

Beyond White Guilt

Here, at the edge of day, the land articulates a wild music to assure itself that it has stayed, despite night’s perpetual wash, the thieving...

Bio: Molly Murray

“We change the world story by story. Stories create empathy. Empathy changes the world.” Molly Murray is a writer, Creative Flow Coach and RTT Practitioner...

Issue 6: War & Peace

Welcome to Panorama’s WAR & PEACE issue. This collection, months in the making, deeply explores the themes of war and peace, with a special emphasis...

The Next Cross

I only count when the going is tough and on this, the second day of our 8-day backcountry ski expedition in northern Sweden, the going...

A Walk to the End of the Croft

A gaggle of wise-eyed Blackface Sheep watch my husband and me bustle into neon yellow boiler coats and black, knee-high wellies. The boiler coat is...

Lost and Found in St Margaret’s Hope

A silver acorn attached to a pocket watch, Pict skeletons under the floorboards, an ornate façade covering a concrete bunker, the tweeting from inner walls...

Lost in an Empty Land

As an artist-writer adapting Paul Klee’s approach of ‘taking a line for a walk’, I like to lose myself in a landscape. Foot becomes pen;...

Going the Way of the Qivittoq

I sat alone in a cosy cabin perched atop a small hill on the banks of Nuuk fjord. Locals called it Ghost City because the...