Borders Walking Festival: Kerri Andrews

10/09/2026 7:30 pm | Heron & Willow Bookshop, 4 Canongate, Jedburgh TD8 6AJ

As part of the Borders Walking Festival, Heron & Willow is delighted to welcome Kerri Andrews to talk about her new book Women, Walking.

This will be Kerri’s second visit to Heron & Willow and she is delighted to be returning as part of the festival to discuss her upcoming collection in conversation.

When: Thursday 10 September, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Heron & Willow Bookshop, 4 Canongate, Jedburgh TD8 6AJ

Price: Donation or £20 including a copy of Women, Walking: Contemporary Voices On Nature and Belonging. 

Tickets can be purchased here.

About the author

Kerri Andrews is a writer, editor, academic and a walker. She is the author of Wanderers: A History of Women Walking and Way Makers: An Anthology of Women’s Writing about Walking. She has written for the Guardian, Trail Magazine, The Great Outdoors Magazine, History Today and Scottish Wildlife. Kerri is based in the Scottish Borders.

More about Women, Walking

Following on from Kerri Andrews’ bestselling book Wanderers, which retold the history of walking through ten women, Women, Walking is an agenda-setting, contemporary exploration of women setting foot outdoors now, and what that means. This groundbreaking collection brings together many of the most prominent and exciting voices of the last decade across poetry, fiction, essays and journalism: Anna Fleming, Anita Sethi, Beatrice Searle, Gail Simmons, Helen Mort, Josie Giles, Kate Davis, Katharine Norbury, Linda Cracknell and Polly Atkin.