Nick Hayes (born 1982) is a British writer, illustrator, and campaigner for land access. He has written a number of graphic novels and a non-fiction book, ''The Book of Trespass''.

Life and work

Hayes grew up in Upper Basildon, Berkshire. He attended

Abingdon School Abingdon School is an independent day and boarding school in Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. It is the List of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom, twentieth oldest Independent School (UK), independent British school. In May 202 ...

from 1995 to 2000. He works as an

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicate ...

. In 2004 he was a founding editor of ''Meat Magazine''. In August 2020, Hayes and Guy Shrubsole launched a campaign on

freedom to roam The freedom to roam, or everyone's right, every person's right or everyman's right, is the general public's right to access certain public or privately owned land, lakes, and rivers for recreation and exercise. The right is sometimes called the ...

in England, called Right to Roam. In July 2021 he and Shrubsole collaborated with Landscapes of Freedom and

David Bangs David Bangs is a field naturalist, social historian, public artist, author and conservationist. He has written extensively on the countryside management, both historically and present day in the English county of Sussex. Biography Bangs wo ...

to organise a mass trespass on the

Sussex Downs The South Downs are a range of chalk hills in the south-eastern coastal counties of England that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, in the E ...

to raise awareness of the failings of the 2000 CROW act, which Shrubsole claims still only gives the public access to 8% of land and 3% of rivers in England.

Publications

Graphic novels

*''The Rime of the Modern Mariner''. Jonathan Cape, 2011. . *''Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads''. Harry N. Abrams, 2016. . *''Cormorance''. Jonathan Cape, 2016. . *''The Drunken Sailor''. Jonathan Cape, 2018. .

Non-fiction books

*''The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us''. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. .

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