The Archive

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• Writing update: new starts, 2024
• 2024 Reading list
• #Reads — Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry 
• Hallowe’en and other stories
• Writing on (and Tom Vowler’s online fiction course)
• I’m Back
• The rain, the rain
• A CLUSTER OF LIGHTS anthology
• 2023 Reading List
• Using Whatsapp voice notes to capture story ideas on the run
• Bloody, bloody Covid
• Visitor #55 has left the building
• SATs week
• #Reads: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• 2022 reading list
• New reads: trying the Dreame app (and a Werewolf romance)
• Read: The Other Side of Better by Michelle Elvy
• Murmuration
• 100 miles in October for Macmillan (and Race for Life 5k as training) – my running journal
• Old ways
• Watching Nomadland, remembering America
• Muse dog
• Library time ? – call for YA/teen book recommendations, please? (For a school library)
• Little writing spaces
• 2021 reading list
• Volunteer Voices on the Bridport blog: beach-cleaning!
• Evening dolphins
• The end, the beginning, the weirdness
• My father’s flowers are treasures
• Llyn Idwal (and a 60mph wind)
• This Lockdown Life: HALFWAY TO A HUNDRED
• This lockdown life: the escape
• Things that will or will not change after lockdown
• Stuff that’s going on: current short fiction competitions
• 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
• Bananas and birds – terrible things
• Eden half-marathon (my first!)
• When to give up?
• Bookmarking the moment (running update: cracked shin)
• SNUGGLES at 101 Fiction
• Reading: The Choice by Edith Eger
• Inspirations
• Old homes
• 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)
• 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
• 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
• Taking the kids shopping in HAY ON WYE
• Swim for Logan 2018
• 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?
• Adventuring again
• Swim for Logan charity swim for Cystic Fibrosis Trust
• Wearing the sea
• Reading Hunger by 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
• 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)
• 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
• The rain bird
• It’s been twenty years since I wrote a love letter
• Bridport 2015 shortlist
• Empurple
• 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?
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Forays: Madron Well
• 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)
• Word vs. Scrivener — Ding Ding, Round One
• PAY ATTENTION: A RIVER OF STONES (two mindful nano pieces)
• JOSHUA’S HAND – Cazart Flash Fiction
• Welcome
• My early TV career: 2. Women who drink too much
• My early TV career: 1. The Worst Dressed Person at the Royal Show