Over the next few weeks we’ll be sharing some of the work from our just published Issue 30, beginning with Tom Smith’s fiery dispatch from the mountains of ‘Green Spain’, accompanied by images from William Bock’s Dinnseanchas project. darkmountainproject.substack…

TONIGHT! Join us for the launch of Dark Mountain: Issue 30 Come raise a glass with us, and hear from contributors and editors from across the planet. Tickets are free, but you’ll need to book a place on Eventbrite. eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-la…

Check out Charlotte Du Cann’s latest piece, 'Andromeda' – an introduction to the artwork for final Dark Mountain issue (you can also find links in the post to both the online and in person launches). Read the full piece here: charlotteducann.substack.com…

We are thrilled to be publishing our new special autumn collection today, available now from our online shop. As ever, it a celebratory moment, but, on this occasion, one also tinged with sorrow, as this will be our last print anthology. darkmountainproject.substack…

Continuing our series on the intimate connections between plants and people, writer Samantha Harvey brings us to the home where she and her family settled in the Hudson Valley of New York State, and the centuries-old maple that grew beside the house. darkmountainproject.substack…

Do come and join us for our online and in-person launches of Dark Mountain: Issue 30! ONLINE Thursday 22nd October at 7.30pm BST eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-la… LONDON Friday 30th October, 7-9pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-la…

In today’s Dark Kitchen post, we travel with Daniela Kato to the mountains of Japan where there grows a red-leaved plant whose aromatic and bitter leaves have flavoured the country’s cuisine for thousands of years. darkmountainproject.substack…

As summer comes to a close, we announce the end of our 16-year series of books, plus the launch of our final anthology, including online and in person events. The latest Dark Mountain newsletter: darkmountainproject.substack…

After our recent series on technology, we return this month to the organic world, to focus on one of the key cultural relationships on this Earth between plants & people with a piece by David Lauer. Read 'A Spirit Never to Betray' in our online edition: darkmountainproject.substack…

Today, for the fourth instalment in our series on technology and the imagination, artist and systems developer Gustaf Palm explores how the mythic language of dragons might allow us to speak to the untempered rise of artificial intelligence. darkmountainproject.substack…

Third in our new series on technology and imagination; Australian artist and writer Simeon Ayres faces despair after his creativity has flown, searching for it in the forests and mountains of his home... darkmountainproject.substack…

‘A machine has no conception of reality.’ The second post in our new series on technology and imagination is an essay by environmental philosopher and activist Rupert Read. Find it in our online edition: darkmountainproject.substack…

High summer greetings all! This eclipsing month we share three summer offers from the Dark Mountain bookshop; our twin Issue 25 and Issue 26 anthologies from land and sea, plus a limited offer on Issue 8: Technê. Read the full newsletter here: darkmountainproject.substack…

For our new tech series – an essay on an interview with ‘techno-sage’ Jacques Ellul, by artist and filmmaker Jan van Boeckel. For our paid subscribers there is also a rare chance to buy Issue 8: Technê with details at the end of the post. darkmountainproject.substack…

This morning – two short pieces, for the heath and all the woods now on fire across Britain, Europe and the world: a lament from our 2019 ‘fire issue’ for the wild lives burned in the forests, alongside another it inspired from the Australian bush fires. darkmountainproject.substack…

For our final story in this month’s series about the polar lands, Ersun Augustinus Kayra explores the traditional life and culture of the Greenlandic people via his imagination, and how their deep interrelationship with place is shaped by language. darkmountainproject.substack…

In this week's post, Stephanie Krzywonos follows the track of a solitary bird into the interior of a ‘graveyard full of bones’ and the hidden histories beneath Antarctica's ice, into her own landscape of loss and grief, and then the world’s. darkmountainproject.substack…

For decades artists have visited the vanishing ice floes of the Arctic to bring back a record of our planetary crisis. But how effective is their creative work? Richard Koscher joins The Arctic Circle residency for an expedition through Svalbard. darkmountainproject.substack…

In today's cool online edition – a dispatch from Aliaksandr Zherdzeu on visiting the largest iceberg in the world at the time, a giant slab of ice in the South Atlantic ocean that created its own weather, while remaining elusive to the human eye. darkmountainproject.substack…

MIDSUMMER NEWS FROM THE MOUNTAIN In this month’s newsletter, we share two ‘surf and turf’ offers from the Dark Mountain bookshop; our twin Issue 25 and Issue 26 anthologies from land and sea, plus the latest from online and our featured mountaineer. darkmountainproject.substack…