Written:
- Stuff that’s going on: current short fiction competitions
- Getting it together (or not) on lockdown
- The Irish Times: What’s Your Nightmare Job and Why?
- An Easter message to the people sitting in the parks and on the beaches
- COVID-19: where to start?
- National Trust: I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree: A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year (Poetry Collections)
- Pan’s Labyrinth (in Spanish)
- January Running Distance Challenge
- It’s New Year’s Resolution time
- Writing to music
- Eden half-marathon (my first!)
- When to give up?
- Bookmarking the moment (running update: cracked shin)
- SNUGGLES at 101 Fiction
- Scafell Pike in a gale (and soggy pillows)
- Reading: The Choice by Edith Eger
- Inspirations
- Old homes
- Tryfan, of course (Bwlch, not summit)
- Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon – Ranger path with 3 children
- Not the Rhyd Ddu path: hiking in the mountains while injured (Llyn Idwal)
- Pop the cork! The importance of celebrating the good times
- Review: the everrumble by Michelle Elvy
- The terrible, dreaded TBR pile
- Race for Life 2019 (Penzance)
- Magic
- Going up Pen Y Gogarth – The Great Orme
- Places that find me
- Running up Godolphin Hill (Godolphin Trust 10)
- Walking up Mount Vesuvius – vulcano e vino
- BEST MICROFICTION 2019
- Children’s book review: Mole’s Sunrise by Jeanne Willis
- Each Peach Pear Plum and the comfort of mum-hugs
- Clearing out junk and listening to author interviews
- Where are the quiet, male heroes in children’s literature?
- Book review – The Only Child by Guojing
- Brown Willy: the hill of swallows
- Christmas holiday reading list
- Two great kids’ outdoor craft books: The Little Book of Whittling by Chris Lubkemann and Rock Art by Denise Scicluna
- House, Parlour, Pigsty, Petty – Merry Christmas
- Happy Solstice
- Moonpoop and friends: lost stories and childhood memories
- Running with 500 people – Remembrance Day 2018
- On reading with your own child in school
- Running up waterfalls
- Only in English
- Failure and rejection
- Smiles and miles: a few tips for taking small children up mountains
- Planning to read Romany and Raq with my children (wildlife and night walks)
- Reading with seven-year-olds (turn, turn, turn)
- A note to my children in defiance of all things illness-related
- Autumn… fall… the season of spiders
- I ran a race and I liked it
- It’s Not A Race
- Cader Idris and a lot of fog
- Taking the kids shopping in HAY ON WYE
- Fan y Big (it’s a hill!)
- Corn Du and Pen y Fan (easy walk for children)
- Swim for Logan 2018
- Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon – Miners’ path with 3 children (and I fall in love with Glaslyn)
- Hurling jellyfish
- A tea party from The Magic Faraway Tree (and taking fiction back into real life)
- In the Kingdom of Overwhelm (writing about chronic illness)
- PLUM SKIN — in RIPENING, NFFD Anthology 2018
- Race for Life
- THERE WILL BE NO LACE — Flashback Fiction
- THE WHALE – Necessary Fiction
- If I won the lottery, I’d build a reading garden
- What do children like to read?
- I read The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
- Mother’s Day
- Reading Born To Run: The Hidden Tribe, The Ultra-Runners, and The Greatest Race The World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
- 2018 Reads to recommend
- Reading Paver’s Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series for children (and could we survive in the wild?)
- Christmas: season of joy or giant overwhelm?
- Back down from the mountain
- Llyn Idwal — a mountain lake swim and an ideal walk for a six-year-old
- Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon – Part 3: The Llanberis path and Hafod Eryri
- Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon – Part 2: the prep and clobber involved in taking children up hills (and my kit list)
- Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon – Part 1: do I take my children up?
- Adventuring again
- Swim for Logan charity swim for Cystic Fibrosis Trust
- Wearing the sea
- A story of ten women and the NHS
- Reading Roxane Gay and talking about fat
- The story of Mr B
- Short short short stories (adult and child writers)
- Watching a few episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale (TV adaptation)
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- My copy of The Bell Jar
- 250-word challenge #storygym
- The school librarian
- Writing opportunities for children
- OCCASIONALLY — Bath Flash Fiction anthology, To Carry Her Home
- Halfway through that brilliant new project that no longer looks like such a great idea
- Looking back to the lost pieces
- On short stories in which nothing happens (writing with children)
- Hello, 2017
- The last day of 2016
- The battle of Christmas tree vs. 2016
- The freelancer versus employee debate — Who wants to be Whale 52?
- Please can we keep Father Christmas under control?
- Quirky books: The Times Concise History of the World
- Best reference books for children aged 3 to 12 years?
- To the music
- Shortlisted — Bath Flash Fiction Award
- SMILE up at 101 Fiction – Hallowe’en issue
- Hummingbirds
- Which are the most beautiful (or weird/furry/ugly) children’s books?
- 2016 School library update
- On The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Jump!
- After ten years of volunteering in school
- The landscapes that dwarf us
- Wild storytelling with Grendalilly and Two Shoes
- Guardian Witness
- Review: ELEANOR AND PARK by Rainbow Rowell
- BARE REALITY: 100 WOMEN, THEIR BREASTS, THEIR STORIES by Laura Dodsworth.
- EVERYTHING LOVE IS by Claire King (@ckingwriter)
- Summer updates and two summer reads
- The Chree
- Boys, boys, boys
- Sheep
- The Grammatical Kittens and other SPaGs
- Reading The Hobbit aloud to children
- THE STONE BABY — Blue Five Notebook
- And so I read SKELLIG
- WHEN JANEY SEES CATS — The Pygmy Giant
- Real-life narratives — staying safe
- Creative nonfiction: should we write about the people we know?
- After, again, and any road
- Children’s books — my 2016 reading list
- Going off-topic: how does it feel to not eat for two days?
- The rain bird
- It’s been twenty years since I wrote a love letter
- Words that should exist: Smugnome
- Bridport 2015 shortlist
- Empurple
- Morrab Library book sale and a copy of AMBIT
- Another 100 books — comment on the @TES top 100 books for primary children
- GO SET A WATCHMAN by Harper Lee — erm, is it supposed to look like that?
- Books for children — which titles would you buy?
- MR STINK at Penlee Theatre
- Little Fest stories and poetry at Penlee Theatre
- LONDON — in LANDMARKS, NFFD Anthology 2015
- WIND SPINNER on the Fictionaut blog
- Shortlisted (Queensferry Press, Best Small Fictions 2015)
- Writing Short Stories (nice surprises and new starts)
- MAYBE A FOX — Ink Sweat and Tears
- So who is Father Christmas?
- Just this
- The perfect writing competition?
- Does anyone know where I can find the anchoress story, please?
- If I could change one thing about my writing career…
- The Rogue Theatre Summer Ball
- Stories that I tell my children #1 The Bookcase and the Boy
- Review: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
- Forty-four (Eighty-eight)
- Morrab Library
- June
- Metazen?
- Website design & how I started blogging @TheThemeFoundry
- VINEGAR in EATING MY WORDS — NFFD Anthology 2014
- #bookadayuk — June 2014
- The abandoned things
- My submissions diary
- Small social deaths: the literary gaffe (and a literary sofa, and a literary giant)
- So who puts mahoosive porkies on their writing CV?
- Love this: nickname
- Oak-aged
- Lost lands and old stories
- Plots, pants, etc
- THE SUGAR-FREE SCENT OF TODAY at Metazen
- LITTLE HANDS OF HAPPINESS — Mslexia
- I have moved!
- Northwrite — collaborative fiction
- Working for free
- Gravity spine poems
- An alternative writer’s retreat? Adventuring in the Scillies
- The World’s Fastest Flower by Charlotte Simmonds
- Forays: Madron Well
- A few competition links
- A COIN, TWO COINS — What The Dickens? ‘The Busker’ Anthology
- Heads up on flash fiction
- Flash Mob ’13: Lots of groovy flash (and… me)
- ROSE PETAL EYES in SCRAPS — NFFD Anthology 2013
- ALL PROUD — Flash Mob 2013
- NFFD 2013
- A most excellent book dedication
- Being compar’d
- On Goodreads
- Flowery prose
- From the sublime…
- Thank YOU, World Book Day — for making us cry
- One man’s meat: Which writing competitions should you enter?
- What’s a typical debut novel advance?
- Reading: The Night Rainbow by Claire King
- Reading: Mother America by Nuala Ní Chonchúir
- The Next Big Thing
- Other people’s shorts
- Conversations with S. Teri O’Type by Christopher Allen
- Why I have not bought a Kindle
- The books we read (versus the books we expect to read)
- Are you about to peak — or are you past your writing prime?
- Housewife with a Half-Life — Author interview with A. B. Wells
- At 2am
- All About Flash — NZ
- Wet kennings
- FIRST PERSON and WRAPPED in JAWBREAKERS — NFFD anthology
- ALMOST on Wiltshire radio
- RIPENING and ALMOST in KISSING FRANKENSTEIN AND OTHER STORIES
- THE COWARD’S TALE and author interview with Vanessa Gebbie
- Highly commended in 2012
- Why do we write (letters)?
- The Normblog Profile 401: Martha Williams
- Too young to write, too old to count
- Are you a hermit?
- Jonathan Pinnock, Proxima Books, and Tentacles — It’s Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens!
- Words for Breakfast (and why we love longlists and Tania Hershman)
- PAY ATTENTION: A RIVER OF STONES (two mindful nano pieces)
- JOSHUA’S HAND – Cazart Flash Fiction
- Welcome
- My early TV career