Huddersfield Literature Festival, 30 Mar
Huddersfield Literature Festival, 30 March If you missed my ‘How to Write a Synopsis’ workshop at the Romantic Novelists Conference last summer, there’s another chance to catch it at the [...]
Writing and Wellbeing, Newcastle, 23 Mar
Lapidus/Metanoia Writing and Wellbeing Weekend Conference, Newcastle, (postponed until 23 March 2019) The subject of this conference is a cause very close to my heart ever since I first wrote [...]
Cardiff, Seren@Cornerstone Festival, 9/10 Feb
Cardiff, Seren@Cornerstone Festival, 9/10 Feb Having been born in Cardiff, I pounce on any invitation to revisit my childhood haunts. And working with Amy Wack, Poetry Editor of Seren Press, [...]
The June edition of Mslexia is out now
Mslexia’s 2018 Women’s Fiction Awards includes a brand new Novella category. But what exactly is a novella? Award-winning exponent Alison Moore explains in the June magazine – and offers some [...]
2. Learn to waste time
Psychologists have identified a stage in creativity known as ‘incubation’. This is the period between the first inkling of inspiration and its realisation in a piece of creative work. Many [...]
Most credible paranormal phenomena
The survey revealed that people on the whole have a rather rosy attitude towards paranormal phenomena, tending to believe more in the positive or benign aspects of spiritual life, such [...]