Category: Author process
Secular, Scriptural or the Heavenly Host: 6 Angel Rules
Truman Capote, it is said, wrote like an angel. Is there a higher compliment? Writing like an angel is synonymous with ease, with perfection of sound …
Read moreBooks for Alien Girls: Fiction and Neurodivergence
As a young reader, I devoured books about mad girls. Fiction and memoir; all kinds of disorders. Girl, Interrupted and Prozac Nation; Wasted and Life- …
Read moreThe Art of Blue Woman
Blue Woman (published by Weatherglass Books), is the fictional biography of a Welsh painter, Rose Hartwood. Her career is a long one, stretching from …
Read morePoem and Interview with Steven Hastings to Celebrate National Poetry Day 2021
Memory Clinic II Welcome to the memory clinic. Do you know why you are here? …
Read moreDignity: a Letter
Dignity is published on 4 April. Although many of the social and historical aspects of Dignity come from family experience and other primary and secon …
Read moreBetter Houses
I am writing this on National Poetry Day 2017. I celebrate it every year in some shape or form. Today you find me quietly typing blogs and articles to …
Read moreA Love Letter to Wales
The Nearest Faraway Place is a story about grief. Super massive grief. The type that takes hold of the heart and the brain and freezes them both. But …
Read moreThe Last Bastion
Photo: Sam Coombes, cast member and steelworker. Courtesy John Pountney/Elfen Tata Steel announced in January last year that over a thousand steelwork …
Read moreThe Accidental Thread
In writing, as with any creative activity, there will always be a gap between what you intended to produce and the final result. The finished piece is …
Read moreAbsolute Beginners
Recently, I was commissioned by Academi to write an online guide about how to become a writer, what the literary landscape looks like today in Wales, …
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