This year’s issue of the University of Sheffield’s creative writing journal was a response to the theme of traces and was made in collaboration with Graves Gallery, Sheffield, as part of the Post-traumatic Landscapes Project.

Invisible Wounds: Landscape and Memory in Photography demonstrated that traces are left on our environments, physically, but also as sites of meanings for triggers, memories and memorials. Devoid of human beings the haunting images within the exhibition had their own silent ways of telling. In designing this issue of Route 57 my question has been how can landscapes move beyond these traumatic symptoms and become embodied with new life? This year’s design is underpinned by the processes used to identify, quantify, and recover from trauma.