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This is my blog about running when I’m meant to be writing.
Also contains fiction.
National Trust: I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree: A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year (Poetry Collections)
January 24, 2020A nature poem for every day of the year. [Read more]
Pan’s Labyrinth (in Spanish)
January 18, 2020Beautifully written and produced but shocking. [Read more]
January Running Distance Challenge
January 5, 2020I should not be allowed “oooh” moments on the internet. [Read more]
Merries and Happies
December 28, 2019Merry happy. [Read more]
Writing to music
December 23, 2019Here’s a post I’ll get round to finishing one day maybe. (I won’t.) [Read more]
I am not yours
December 14, 2019Snowflake leftie. [Read more]
Eden half-marathon (my first!)
October 14, 2019I can’t believe how lucky I am that this was my first half-marathon. [Read more]
Life, Dog
October 8, 2019life coach [Read more]
When to give up?
September 29, 2019Ridiculous, but. [Read more]
SNUGGLES at 101 Fiction
September 14, 2019100-word horror at 101 Fiction. [Read more]
Scafell Pike in a gale (and soggy pillows)
September 6, 2019The classic British camping experience. [Read more]
Reading: The Choice by Edith Eger
August 22, 2019Inspiring and demanding book. [Read more]
Inspirations
August 13, 2019Some little inspirations that I’ve enjoyed. [Read more]
Old homes
August 7, 2019An old life revisited. [Read more]
Tryfan, of course (Bwlch, not summit)
July 29, 2019You can’t stay long. [Read more]
Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon – Ranger path with 3 children
July 26, 2019Relaxing and pretty all the way down. [Read more]
Not the Rhyd Ddu path: hiking in the mountains while injured (Llyn Idwal)
July 25, 2019Silent, staring, muddy, sweaty, bug-eyed mass of monosyllables. [Read more]
Pop the cork! The importance of celebrating the good times
July 22, 2019Pop. The. Cork. [Read more]
Review: the everrumble by Michelle Elvy
June 24, 2019This is the best book I’ve read in a decade. [Read more]
The terrible, dreaded TBR pile
June 12, 2019My TBR is a monster of many parts. [Read more]
Race for Life 2019 (Penzance)
June 6, 2019Possibly the most fun group run I’ve ever done. [Read more]
Magic
May 18, 2019Grey heron. [Read more]
Going up Pen Y Gogarth – The Great Orme
May 15, 2019Fabulous. Fun. Funny. Beautiful. Easy. Gorgeous. [Read more]
Places that find me
May 14, 2019When I don’t know where to turn, this is where I end up. [Read more]
Running up Godolphin Hill (Godolphin Trust 10)
April 28, 2019Very pretty little organised trail run, options on 5km or 10km. [Read more]
Walking up Mount Vesuvius – vulcano e vino
April 18, 2019I was the mother who sprinted down a volcano, trailing three kids and clutching a bottle of Lacryma Christi. Always a good look. [Read more]
BEST MICROFICTION 2019
April 17, 2019Best Microfiction 2019. [Read more]
Children’s book review: Mole’s Sunrise by Jeanne Willis
March 6, 2019Age 3-7y: an understated story about friendship and inclusion, and playing to abilities rather than disabilities. [Read more]
Each Peach Pear Plum and the comfort of mum-hugs
February 11, 2019I threw out the old board books with their torn-off flaps and chewed corners… [Read more]
Clearing out junk and listening to author interviews
January 29, 2019Authors making a difference in the world through their stories and projects [Read more]
Where are the quiet, male heroes in children’s literature?
January 25, 2019Where, in children’s literature, do we reward simple, enduring decency with a prize that children might actually want? [Read more]
Book review – The Only Child by Guojing
January 17, 2019Gorgeous illustrated, wordless children’s book. ‘I need another book now,’ said my son, ‘to read until my throat is OK.’ [Read more]
Brown Willy: the hill of swallows
January 13, 2019Love Brown Willy. [Read more]
Christmas holiday reading list
December 30, 2018This is 2019. Bottoms up. [Read more]
Two great kids’ outdoor craft books: The Little Book of Whittling by Chris Lubkemann and Rock Art by Denise Scicluna
December 30, 2018A couple of lovely craft books for kids. [Read more]
House, Parlour, Pigsty, Petty – Merry Christmas
December 22, 2018In the land of strong tea and chiming clocks. [Read more]
Happy Solstice
December 21, 2018Solstice wildness and new starts. [Read more]
Moonpoop and friends: lost stories and childhood memories
December 17, 2018I grew up with her! [Read more]
Running with 500 people – Remembrance Day 2018
November 11, 2018Running till your legs give way beneath you teaches you a lot about your legs. [Read more]
On reading with your own child in school
November 8, 2018Reading with your child in school can show you a very different reader. [Read more]
Running up waterfalls
November 5, 2018Let’s run up a waterfall, swim where the mythical stag swam, and peer out over the valleys from the lake up near the sky. [Read more]
Only in English
October 27, 2018Back from Barcelona. [Read more]
Failure and rejection
October 16, 2018Rejection makes me want to pull my chin fat right up over my head, and hide inside my own bubble until everyone has gone away [Read more]
Smiles and miles: a few tips for taking small children up mountains
October 14, 2018‘Mum, Mum, Mum, can you look after my rock parrot, please?’ [Read more]
Planning to read Romany and Raq with my children (wildlife and night walks)
October 7, 2018A series of wildlife books (and radio series) written and presented by the Rev. George Bramwell Evens (1884–1943). [Read more]
A note to my children in defiance of all things illness-related
September 15, 2018I know the best place in the world to play catch. [Read more]
Autumn… fall… the season of spiders
September 4, 2018The ceiling corners have filled up with spiders: it must be time to write. [Read more]
I ran a race and I liked it
September 2, 2018Didn’t die, all good. [Read more]
It’s Not A Race
August 27, 2018Things I will do for beer. [Read more]
Cader Idris and a lot of fog
August 23, 2018Sitting at the very top of a mountain in thick fog with two exhausted children gave me a moment’s reflection. [Read more]
Taking the kids shopping in HAY ON WYE
August 19, 2018Books, books, books, books, books (and ice-cream). [Read more]
Fan y Big (it’s a hill!)
August 18, 2018Lovely, child-friendly walk (in good weather). [Read more]
Corn Du and Pen y Fan (easy walk for children)
August 16, 2018A quick hello from South Wales. [Read more]
Swim for Logan 2018
August 6, 2018By the last 300 yards, I’m feeling proper floppy. [Read more]
Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon – Miners’ path with 3 children (and I fall in love with Glaslyn)
August 4, 2018Absolutely, completely brilliant. [Read more]
Hurling jellyfish
July 17, 2018Broken is not the same as beaten. [Read more]
A tea party from The Magic Faraway Tree (and taking fiction back into real life)
June 29, 2018Sweet book — think Narnia for younger kids. Fantastic for seven-year-olds, and mums. [Read more]
In the Kingdom of Overwhelm (writing about chronic illness)
June 25, 2018Overwhelm is a place. [Read more]
PLUM SKIN — in RIPENING, NFFD Anthology 2018
June 10, 2018NFFD anthology available to order, and Flash Flood open for submissions until Wednesday. [Read more]
Race for Life
June 7, 2018Very sweet little fun run. [Read more]
THERE WILL BE NO LACE — Flashback Fiction
May 14, 2018Historical microfiction up at Flashback Fiction. [Read more]
THE WHALE – Necessary Fiction
April 4, 2018Flash fiction published. [Read more]
If I won the lottery, I’d build a reading garden
March 20, 2018Little life goals. [Read more]
What do children like to read?
March 19, 2018There’s only one way to find out whether a book will be read and enjoyed, or not. [Read more]
I read The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
March 18, 2018The Lost Words, a “modern spell book” about wildlife, written by Robert Macfarlane and illustrated by Jackie Morris. [Read more]
Reading Born To Run: The Hidden Tribe, The Ultra-Runners, and The Greatest Race The World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
February 14, 2018Exhilarating. [Read more]
2018 Reads to recommend
February 6, 2018A few things I’ve read recently. [Read more]
Back down from the mountain
September 18, 2017In which I run like a gazelle. Or something. [Read more]
Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon – Part 3: The Llanberis path and Hafod Eryri
August 23, 2017This, perhaps, was happiness. [Read more]
Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon – Part 2: the prep and clobber involved in taking children up hills (and my kit list)
August 22, 2017Sort of ready. [Read more]
Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon – Part 1: do I take my children up?
August 21, 2017Trying to decide whether to take my children up their first mountain. [Read more]
Adventuring again
August 20, 2017Eeeee-aiiii-addddio… [Read more]
Wearing the sea
July 22, 2017I love it. [Read more]
A story of ten women and the NHS
July 13, 2017The NHS: pain vs. not. [Read more]
Reading Roxane Gay and talking about fat
July 6, 2017A book that made me go on a bit about fat. [Read more]
The story of Mr B
July 5, 2017What right do you have to be here? [Read more]
Short short short stories (adult and child writers)
June 29, 2017A couple of tiny story competitions (25 – 100 words). [Read more]
Watching a few episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale (TV adaptation)
June 12, 2017File category: things that rattled me. [Read more]
Holes by Louis Sachar
May 7, 2017Book = great, film = also great. [Read more]
My copy of The Bell Jar
April 10, 2017It’s a quirky book and it belongs with me. [Read more]
250-word challenge #storygym
March 29, 2017Write a 250-word story without using the letter “e”. [Read more]
The school librarian
March 6, 2017‘Come here, look! Look!’ [Read more]
Writing opportunities for children
February 23, 2017When children write, who reads their work? [Read more]
OCCASIONALLY — Bath Flash Fiction anthology, To Carry Her Home
February 20, 2017I have a piece in the Bath Flash Fiction Award anthology. [Read more]
When you start a new project… and fall into a swamp (again)
February 8, 2017I distinctly remember the pits of the wee small hours when I thought, damn, I hate this. [Read more]
Looking back to the lost pieces
January 12, 2017The other day I found a handful of old, published micro-fictions that I’d forgotten about. [Read more]
On short stories in which nothing happens (writing with children)
January 4, 2017With short stories, is it OK if nothing happens? [Read more]
Hello, 2017
January 1, 2017Cassiopeia. [Read more]
The last day of 2016
December 31, 2016Goodnight, 2016. [Read more]
The battle of Christmas tree vs. 2016
December 22, 2016Needles, mud, water, baubles flying, a child’s finger trapped between buckets (retrieved intact), and shouts of “Too heavyyyy!” [Read more]
The freelancer versus employee debate — Who wants to be Whale 52?
December 21, 2016I need to decide what I value more: belonging or freedom? [Read more]
Please can we keep Father Christmas under control?
December 14, 2016Let Mum and Dad dish out the expensive gear? [Read more]
Quirky books: The Times Concise History of the World
December 7, 2016Welcome to the Library of Odd. [Read more]
Best reference books for children aged 3 to 12 years?
December 5, 2016What are the best non-fiction books for children aged 3-12y? Did you have a reference book that you loved as much as a novel? [Read more]
To the music
November 2, 2016Transplants me. Forgets to put me back. [Read more]
Shortlisted — Bath Flash Fiction Award
October 31, 2016Bath Flash Fiction Award news and lists. [Read more]
SMILE up at 101 Fiction – Hallowe’en issue
October 30, 2016New microfiction up at 101 Fiction. [Read more]
Hummingbirds
October 23, 2016Community cringe. [Read more]
Which are the most beautiful (or weird/furry/ugly) children’s books?
October 20, 2016Bring me your beautiful, ugly, weird, and furry books. [Read more]
2016 School library update
October 11, 2016I’m trying to help build a kids’ library — looking for brilliant book ideas. [Read more]
On The Color Purple by Alice Walker
October 4, 2016My favourite book. [Read more]
Jump!
October 3, 2016This summer I took up pier jumping. [Read more]
After ten years of volunteering in school
September 27, 2016I’d rather yank out my own stitches than miss a chance to read with children, but I also need to belong. [Read more]
The landscapes that dwarf us
September 22, 2016It feels permanent; we hope it is. [Read more]
Wild storytelling with Grendalilly and Two Shoes
September 7, 2016After days of trekking, paddling and swimming, when it was too dark to read and I was almost too tired to speak, I got the… [Read more]
Guardian Witness
September 6, 2016A little creative outlet if you like photos and captions. [Read more]
Review: ELEANOR AND PARK by Rainbow Rowell
September 4, 2016This book took me places I haven’t been for a long time. I felt it. [Read more]
BARE REALITY: 100 WOMEN, THEIR BREASTS, THEIR STORIES by Laura Dodsworth.
August 29, 2016A review. [Read more]
EVERYTHING LOVE IS by Claire King (@ckingwriter)
July 28, 2016Claire King’s second novel, EVERYTHING LOVE IS, is out this week, and I recommend it. [Read more]
Summer updates and two summer reads
July 21, 2016It’s been a horrible year but hey, it’s summer and that means READING. Plus I love Lari Don’s new book. [Read more]
The Chree
June 14, 2016I couldn’t love you more. [Read more]
Boys, boys, boys
June 10, 2016Our boys are fully capable of imagination, empathy, interest, and spectacular writing of their own. They need to choose what they read unhindered by adult… [Read more]
Sheep
May 25, 2016Free imaginary sheep. [Read more]
The Grammatical Kittens and other SPaGs
May 10, 2016Grammar and kittens. [Read more]
Reading The Hobbit aloud to children
March 8, 2016‘Is it a pill you take before you get married?’ [Read more]
THE STONE BABY — Blue Five Notebook
February 29, 2016THE STONE BABY is published at Blue Five Notebook, with author commentary about the lithopedion. [Read more]
And so I read SKELLIG
February 24, 2016Not just for children. [Read more]
WHEN JANEY SEES CATS — The Pygmy Giant
February 22, 2016Microfiction at The Pygmy Giant. [Read more]
Real-life narratives — staying safe
February 17, 2016My children’s childhoods — what kind of narrative am I building? [Read more]
Creative nonfiction: should we write about the people we know?
February 13, 2016We might be writers, but not all stories are ours to tell. [Read more]
After, again, and any road
February 7, 2016What are you after? [Read more]
Children’s books — my 2016 reading list
January 12, 2016This year, I’m going to read Skellig and about a hundred others. Watch this space. [Read more]
Going off-topic: how does it feel to not eat for two days?
January 10, 2016How does it feel to not eat for a couple of days? [Read more]
The rain bird
November 25, 2015The yaffle, or rain bird, plays beside my house. [Read more]
It’s been twenty years since I wrote a love letter
November 18, 2015Love letters represent a brazen courage. [Read more]
Words that should exist: Smugnome
November 15, 2015More smug than gnome. [Read more]
Bridport 2015 shortlist
October 17, 2015The Bridport 2015 results are out. [Read more]
Empurple
October 7, 2015Nothing like a bit of purple. [Read more]
Morrab Library book sale and a copy of AMBIT
September 27, 2015How gorgeous is this? [Read more]
Another 100 books — comment on the @TES top 100 books for primary children
August 4, 2015Some surprising omissions. [Read more]
GO SET A WATCHMAN by Harper Lee — erm, is it supposed to look like that?
July 17, 2015Oops. [Read more]
Books for children — which titles would you buy?
July 16, 2015What are your three favourite books for children aged 4-11? [Read more]
MR STINK at Penlee Theatre
July 12, 2015Brilliant. [Read more]
Little Fest stories and poetry at Penlee Theatre
July 11, 2015Well done Penzance Litfest for laying on such a lovely afternoon. [Read more]
LONDON — in LANDMARKS, NFFD Anthology 2015
June 16, 2015Sodium rain. Pre-bomb Victoria. Crowd sweating burgers and perfume. [Read more]
WIND SPINNER on the Fictionaut blog
May 26, 2015The clink of metal on metal does not disturb her. [Read more]
MAYBE A FOX — Ink Sweat and Tears
January 13, 2015Flash fiction, online at Ink Sweat and Tears. [Read more]
So who is Father Christmas?
December 15, 2014“Who is Father Christmas?” [Read more]
Just this
November 28, 2014sadness and dreams of rising from ashes :: yes, metazen is dead.— frank hinton (@frankhinton) November 24, 2014 metazen (now some horrible non-lit site). 2016… [Read more]
The perfect writing competition?
October 25, 2014Stories have been read. [Read more]
Does anyone know where I can find the anchoress story, please?
October 6, 2014A few years ago, I read a story about an anchoress. [Read more]
If I could change one thing about my writing career…
September 22, 2014I’d have a writing buddy. One who likes big, wet rocks overlooking the sea, and who doesn’t mind embarrassing dogs. [Read more]
The Rogue Theatre Summer Ball
August 28, 2014If you want to see short stories in the wild, before we tame them or trap them in books, you need to head over to… [Read more]
Stories that I tell my children #1 The Bookcase and the Boy
August 11, 2014The story with no name that I promised my son. [Read more]
Review: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
August 6, 2014I just read A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride. [Read more]
Forty-four (Eighty-eight)
July 27, 2014I’m going to live until I’m eighty-eight. [Read more]
Morrab Library
July 19, 2014Filed under ‘cultural pearls’. [Read more]
June
June 30, 2014In which someone new asked me how my writing was going. [Read more]
Metazen?
June 25, 2014Nooooooo! [Read more]
VINEGAR in EATING MY WORDS — NFFD Anthology 2014
June 6, 2014Flash fiction in the National Flash Fiction Day anthology, 2014. [Read more]
#bookadayuk — June 2014
June 5, 2014Books, every day. [Read more]
The abandoned things
May 20, 2014They beckon. [Read more]
My submissions diary
May 12, 2014Here are my playgrounds. [Read more]
Small social deaths: the literary gaffe (and a literary sofa, and a literary giant)
May 9, 2014I have not used the word ‘dollop’ since. [Read more]
Love this: nickname
March 21, 2014Late middle English, OBVIOUSLY. [Read more]
Oak-aged
March 15, 2014The other day I looked at my grey hair and receding gums and thought, I’m sure I was about twenty last time I checked. Or… [Read more]
Lost lands and old stories
February 24, 2014Beautiful doesn’t, however, mean safe. [Read more]
Plots, pants, etc
January 20, 2014I’ve heard a lot about ‘plotters and pantsers’ — there are enough articles (sss, ssss), and obviously my favourite would be this one, but that’s not… [Read more]
THE SUGAR-FREE SCENT OF TODAY at Metazen
December 17, 2013Flash fiction online at Metazen. [Read more]
LITTLE HANDS OF HAPPINESS — Mslexia
December 8, 2013How I carry on writing (200 words, online at Mslexia). [Read more]
I have moved!
December 5, 2013I sit in a puddle of my own making, frightened and alone- [Read more]
Northwrite — collaborative fiction
November 1, 2013Comment on collaborative fiction, online at Northwrite. [Read more]
Working for free
October 14, 2013“Why would you start on a career if it’s not just impossible, but improper, to expect payment?” [Read more]
Gravity spine poems
August 18, 2013Making poems out of the titles of books. [Read more]
An alternative writer’s retreat? Adventuring in the Scillies
August 17, 2013We shook the plaster dust out of our hair, stepped onto a little boat, and sailed to the Scillies. [Read more]
The World’s Fastest Flower by Charlotte Simmonds
August 3, 2013I received an absolutely gorgeous surprise this morning; a package containing THE WORLD’S FASTEST FLOWER by Charlotte Simmonds, a beautiful and evocative book of poems… [Read more]
Forays: Madron Well
July 28, 2013Yes! Seen it! (2017 update.) [Read more]
A few competition links
July 4, 2013Open now. [Read more]
A COIN, TWO COINS — What The Dickens? ‘The Busker’ Anthology
June 23, 2013Flash fiction, available on Kindle. [Read more]
Heads up on flash fiction
June 21, 2013Yesterday was International Flash Fiction Day — an incredible global outpouring of tiny pieces of fiction, including Flash Mob and National Flash Fiction Day, which… [Read more]
Flash Mob ’13: Lots of groovy flash (and… me)
June 20, 2013So, you know that scene in Bridget Jones when she turns up to a party dressed as a bunny girl? I’m one of those people.… [Read more]
ROSE PETAL EYES in SCRAPS — NFFD Anthology 2013
June 15, 2013Flash fiction in the NFFD 2013 anthology, SCRAPS. Available as Kindle or print copy. [Read more]
ALL PROUD — Flash Mob 2013
June 10, 2013Flash fiction, highly commended in Flash Mob 2013, available to read online. [Read more]
NFFD 2013
June 4, 2013The NFFD 2013 anthology acceptances have been announced. [Read more]
A most excellent book dedication
June 4, 2013I have been sorting through our book archives, and finding pearls. [Read more]
Being compar’d
May 26, 2013Sixty or seventy years after she absorbed Macbeth, I did the same, and we underlined the same words. [Read more]
On Goodreads
May 23, 2013I’ve joined Goodreads — I’m here (do get in touch!), and I’ll try to hook up to my reviews when I post them. I’ve always felt… [Read more]
Flowery prose
May 5, 2013I’ve dropped some flowers onto the blog. [Read more]
From the sublime…
May 1, 2013The deadline was midnight. [Read more]
Thank YOU, World Book Day — for making us cry
March 7, 2013World Book Day just made my children cry. Great. [Read more]
One man’s meat: Which writing competitions should you enter?
February 15, 2013The gist was, “I’m only entering small competitions because I’m not good enough to enter the big ones.” [Read more]
What’s a typical debut novel advance?
February 11, 2013A one-book deal might produce about £5,000. Maybe. Or nothing. Or a million. [Read more]
Reading: Mother America by Nuala Ní Chonchúir
December 27, 2012Mother America by Nuala Ní Chonchúir. [Read more]
The Next Big Thing
December 17, 2012Unpublishable. [Read more]
Other people’s shorts
December 6, 2012Other people’s shorts [Read more]
Conversations with S. Teri O’Type by Christopher Allen
September 14, 2012“And where’s your dog?” Teri asks. “I don’t have one? Where’s yours?” “Cary Grant’s getting his nails done.” [Read more]
Why I have not bought a Kindle
July 12, 2012I love Kindle — I’ve used it (far) more than hard copy this year — but what I don’t need is another device. [Read more]
The books we read (versus the books we expect to read)
June 30, 2012Hands up, who’s failed to read a literary “must”? You know the one, the book with the gold-plated reviews, the one with its own stand in… [Read more]
Are you about to peak — or are you past your writing prime?
June 23, 2012In terms of writing, I don’t believe that age limits… anything at all. [Read more]
Housewife with a Half-Life — Author interview with A. B. Wells
June 18, 2012Author interview with AB Wells. [Read more]
At 2am
June 11, 2012Tell me a dream, a good dream. [Read more]
All About Flash — NZ
May 31, 2012Some lovely definitions of flash fiction up at All About Flash on the National Flash fiction Day NZ website. [Read more]
Wet kennings
May 22, 2012We watched a bumble bee fly out to sea and I asked him to explain how the bumble bee flies and he cracked a joke. [Read more]
FIRST PERSON and WRAPPED in JAWBREAKERS — NFFD anthology
May 15, 2012Flash fiction anthology. [Read more]
Groovy radio moment
May 15, 2012Mark O’Donnell interviewed Josephine Corcoran about flash fiction on Wiltshire Radio, and read out my nano-fiction Almost (from FFSW anthology, Kissing Frankenstein and Other Stories)… [Read more]
RIPENING and ALMOST in KISSING FRANKENSTEIN AND OTHER STORIES
May 9, 2012My microfiction Ripening and nanofiction Almost are published in Flash Fiction Southwest’s anthology for National Flash Fiction Day: Kissing Frankenstein and Other Stories. Thanks to… [Read more]
THE COWARD’S TALE and author interview with Vanessa Gebbie
April 22, 2012A. N. Wilson voted it his book of the year, it’s been compared to work by Dylan Thomas and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and on 28… [Read more]
Highly commended in 2012
March 12, 2012A big thank you to Writers’ Forum Magazine for shortlisting/highly commending my stories in Issue #122 (January 2012), Issue #126 (May 2012) and Issue #135 (Jan… [Read more]
Why do we write (letters)?
January 28, 2012I will never throw away those letters, even though the senders are now in their forties and would laugh hysterically if I were to show… [Read more]
The Normblog Profile 401: Martha Williams
December 23, 2011The Normblog profile 401: Martha Williams. [Read more]
Too young to write, too old to count
November 22, 2011While experience provides a wealth of stories to be mined, there is definitely a place for the brave, the idealistic… the clear, strong voice of… [Read more]
Are you a hermit?
October 7, 2011In 1994, aged twenty-three, I stood in front of several hundred delegates in a hotel in South Kensington, and tried not to pee myself. [Read more]
Jonathan Pinnock, Proxima Books, and Tentacles — It’s Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens!
September 25, 2011This post has been transferred in from a previous blog. My thanks to all who contributed or commented. Jonathan, huge congratulations on the publication of… [Read more]
Words for Breakfast (and why we love longlists and Tania Hershman)
April 22, 2011This post has been transferred in from a previous blog. Thanks to all who contributed or commented. The munching noise you hear… the slurping, the… [Read more]
PAY ATTENTION: A RIVER OF STONES (two mindful nano pieces)
February 16, 2011Two mindful nano pieces. [Read more]
JOSHUA’S HAND – Cazart Flash Fiction
September 1, 2010JOSHUA’S HAND won runner-up prize in the Cazart Flash Fiction competition and was included in the Jul-Sep 2010 Winners and Runners Up anthology (p.28 – read online… [Read more]
Welcome
February 24, 2009Hi, welcome to my new blog — things will be trickling in slowly (but steadily). Do come in and have a rummage. [Read more]