Leeds Central Library

  • What is Getting me Through

    This blog isn’t about how hard the Covid-19 situation is for everyone.  You all know that. This is about some of the fun or stimulating things I’ve found to do while on lockdown and an online reading I’ll be part of next week. You may already be engaged with several of these already but I…

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  • Changing Diaries

    If you switch off when writers start talking about how they fill their diaries then do click off the screen now. If you’re still here – hello and happy New Year! I’m going to start by returning to 2016. With regards to writing, that year was an exciting one for me. There was the release…

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  • Bards, Idols and Liars – an exhibition at Room 700

    Since last blogging, I feel I’ve lived a whole lifetime. There is so much to say about Haunt, Wakefield Lit Fest, the young writers groups, a Forward poetry commendation, a project with women in a bail hostel, running a steering group for people with learning disabilities, a CPD session for support workers and the Love…

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  • Don’t ‘act’

    This is a busy week for the Alice In Bloomers project. It began with Allana Marsh’s Victorian Embellishments workshop yesterday, will continue today at 5.30 pm with Wearing Purple, a creative writing workshop, which I will be running, and culminate in Saturday’s Pinched Waist workshop and the final script-in-hand show of Corseted.  We have sold out…

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