My Anne Brown Essay prize-winning piece 'On the Covenant' is now on WigtownBookFestival site with short intro by me on the essay form, the shortlist & my 2024 Taproot Press book: 'The essay form is a gift. So is a prize that supports and celebrates it': wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/anne-brow…

At 9 years old I was sexually assaulted by the restaurant owner who had befriended my family on holiday. At 12 years old my 'beautiful handsome hero; Dad', told he couldn't see me again, and he didn't. At 13 years old the family 'friend' groomed and raped me for the next 3

Please share. With thanks to BBC Scotland Learning producers gilldavies Claire O’Gallagher & to Madeline Pinkerton for the gorgeous illustration, my new children's audio story 'A Little Light' is now up BBC Sounds across UK. For 5-8 year olds, it's written for Hanukkah, & for my daughters.

Celebrating the short story The Arts Centre EHU tomorrow with Wendy Erskine Dr Andrea Ashworth/AJ Ashworth ElizabethBaines Julia Clayton Sarah Schofield and Eoin Malone.

Our students had the chance to hear the talented Wendy Erskine read her work and even had the opportunity to ask questions. Events like this are entirely free for all students of Edge Hill

Learn more about Bernie McGill – one of our Edge Hill Prize 2023 shortlisted winners. Bernie reveals her writing habits and what it was like to be writing during the pandemic lockdowns: orlo.uk/Vu7kg

Nice to see our Undergraduate Research Intern Programme representatives Zain and Martina sharing research UK Parliament yesterday.

Pls share: our Creative Writing at Strathclyde / Spanish poetry event w HUBERT MATIUWAA & JUANA ADCOCK, straddling Mexico & Glasgow, is now ONLINE as well as in person Strathclyde Union 21/3 @ 17.00 so you can join us wherever you are. Pay What You Can. eventbrite.co.uk/e/hubert-matiu…

Creative and critical reflections on place. My current read 'Practising Place' is complementing my own research around place-identity and walking writers. Wishing I wasn't working today so I could spend the day writing instead.

Had an exciting day at Gladstone's Library having a bite size history lesson about the Baltic States by Dan Kaszeta, FRHistS, Legal Juggernaut 🇱🇹 🇺🇦. Hoping this will help me lengthen 'The Forest Brothers' play and am excited to read his book. What a great way to spend a Saturday!

Tonight I spent my evening with friends, colleagues and students... a theatre full of Edge Hill creatives and the atmosphere was sombre!!! Stories were read, questions asked about craft and a lot unsaid... I feel for all the tutors in this extremely valued (to us) department x

The finance team took all the physical flyers away for EHU this afternoon... the petition has been set up by students who are amazingly shouting loudly while the tutors can't... nearly 200 signatures already... let's show them we stand by them

Amazing news to be sharing on this Bank Holiday Monday. I also cannot wait to read the works of all the other shortlisted writers in the future!

Had a fantastic weekend in Newcastle attending New Writing North Writing Conference. Advice, conversation and inspiration was given from a room flooded with creatives! Time well spent in a historic city. Feeling inspired to finish my #WIP

My brilliant friend Rodge Glass has this beautiful book coming out in September - pre-order now! taprootpressuk.co.uk/2024/05/20/som…

WHO GETS TO BE REMEMBERED? AND HOW? Pls share. JOSHUA, available to buy from today. 'The magic trick is presenting a short life in a close-up, vivid, respectful way that rejects the idea that short lives have little impact, go unnoticed, & should purely be seen in tragic terms.'