River Brit
June 8, 2024
The last photo for May is of the River Brit. A place full of memories, but always changing.
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Happy Publication Day!
April 4, 2024
Spring seems the perfect time for my story ‘Narcissus’ to make its appearance, just one of the fourteen offerings in Botanical Short Stories, edited by Emma Timpany. Out today, 4 April 2024!
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Last on the card – October
November 4, 2022
A relief to find this was my last photo taken in October. Not too shabby for taking part in bushboy’s Last on the Card challenge.
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Final PuN
June 3, 2022
Where is Napoleon’s tongue? Am I anything like my character, Marjorie Campbell? Bringing you more great artwork and a final round of questions about ‘Pumping Up Napoleon’ from students in South Korea studying dystopian science fiction.
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More PuN in South Korea
May 27, 2022
More questions about ‘Pumping up Napoleon ‘ from the lovely students in South Korea. Once again all the illustrations are original creations, inspired by their reading of dystopian science fiction.
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PUN: Questions from South Korea
May 20, 2022
My short story ‘Pumping up Napoleon’, now 21 years old, gave a little kick of life recently, with some interest from young students in South Korea. This is the first of three posts in which I try to answer their questions about a story written before they were born.
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April 16, 2021
Cardiff Poetry Festival is ON and so easy to visit online via Zoom with many free events. Here’s a sample from Chris Meredith’s new collection ‘Still’. On Sunday 12pm BST he’s launching this and a novel, ‘Please’. Please wave to me if you’re there!
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Writing on the other side
August 21, 2020
Every day I go to the place where I write. How do I get there? Sometimes it’s easy. Often I have to give myself directions and a downright good talking to …
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September equinox: back to page one
September 23, 2019
The September equinox brings with it a change of diary.
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Good grief
August 16, 2019
The Ruth Strauss Foundation, bereavement and how cricket helped me write The Chicken Soup Murder.
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