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Desire Lines - a new movement, home and community hub for mountain writing and art
Hello and welcome to the first Desire Lines newsletter! We're launching Desire Lines Collective, an online mountain writing community, a newsletter, and a print journal dedicated to elevating women, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming writers of mountain literature. A counter to clickbait and the status quo in outdoor media, Desire
Book Review — Flow: Women's Counternarratives from Rivers, Rock, and Sky
By Katie Ives | A version of this review originally appeared in Alpinist 90. Beneath old formulaic tales of men's dominion over mountains, rivers, and air, there have always been more varied stories by people of all genders — at times flowing like underground streams or bursting forth with a
Writing Like a Mountain: Climbing Literature in the Anthropocene
By Katie Ives | Originally published in The Himalayan Journal 79 and a finalist for the 2025 Banff Mountain Book Festival Mountaineering Article Award There's a canyon near my home that I like to visit on winter dusks, where the shadowed ice seems bluer and more luminous than anywhere
The 30-Detail Challenge: How to Immerse Readers
By: Laurie Gwen Shapiro Strong feature writing thrives on specific, concrete details that immerse readers in a scene. This exercise will help you generate 30 vivid details for your story — forcing you to go beyond vague description and uncover the richness of your subject. By the end of this exercise,