Reflecting on 2021 and some goals for 2022
This time last year we’d just gone into lockdown again and I was busy home schooling. Just the other day […]
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A Year of “Me Time”
Since this is the one year anniversary of when I announced that I’d be closing down my small press, Mother’s
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Reflecting on the publication of Russian Doll
It’s a month and a bit since my debut pamphlet, Russian Doll, was published – a good time then, to
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Narratives of birth and death and all that there is in between: 5 poetry collection reviews
Work and writing projects have kept me from adding much to my blog recently, but I love this little space
Reflections on a Decade of Mothering
As we near the end of the year I can’t help but look back. 2017 was a big ‘mothering year’
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Reviews of Books by Women – Are There Enough?
Although there are many successful women authors in the science fiction genre today, it still feels, at times, as though
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Narratives of Water and Earth: 4 poetry collection reviews
Although I write, edit and publish poetry, I genuinely find reviewing poetry challenging. It inevitably makes me think of the
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When Poetry Saved The Day
I’m sure that many people are aware of how the UK government’s interference with the education system is failing children.
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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Poetry World
Last Saturday, I took part in ‘An Afternoon With The Small Press’ at Southwell Poetry Festival. In my “work role”
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Turning 40 – some reflections
I’m not particularly worried about getting older, but there’s something about the number 40 that doesn’t particularly appeal to
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The Editor (and creative contributor) to Her Book
Just the other day I officially signed off The Forgotten and the Fantastical 2 with the printers. I am relieved.
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On our summer holiday, reading, writing and having an epiphany
As it seems to have been an age since I last blogged (though I’m still just about managing the once-a-month
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