Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by a bunch of ‘college aged and twenty somethings’ over at Broke and the Bookish, who would ‘spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals’. One of their Top Ten Tuesday topics is ‘Ten books you’d buy right this second if someone […]
My writing journey has involved traversing a long, winding path with numerous detours and roadblocks, sometimes entire landslides, but I’m slowly learning that nothing we do or experience is wasted – even discarded words and manuscripts. I really do believe that without the countless writing exercises I’ve attempted, hundreds of thousands of words scribbled in […]
You’ve most likely heard the names Kate Cebrano, Frankie J. Holden and Amanda Keller, who were among those recently recognised in the 2016 Queen’s birthday honours list. But you probably haven’t heard of Edna Richardson, who was on that same list. Now in her eighties, Edna Richardson has spent the past twenty years visiting war […]
Welcome back to Six Degrees of Separation, a literary meme in which Kate, from booksaremyfavouriteandbest, gives us the title of a book and we link it to six others in any way we choose. It’s really easy – and fun – so please join in. This months’ starting point is Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie. Midnight’s Children […]
It would seem there are plenty of opportunities out there for young writers and other creatives if you know where to look. Whether you’re a young person wanting to know where to submit your work, or a teacher hoping to inspire the creative children and teenagers in your care, I’ve gathered a stack of current […]
Have you ever tried to find out about someone, perhaps an elusive ancestor, but found little trace of them in the history books or other official records? It’s often the case when researching family history, and it was certainly my experience when writing Many Hearts, One Voice. When I started researching the story of the War Widows’ […]