Headingley Lit Fest
Saboteur Awards Nomination for ‘Echolocation’ and other project and Dragon’s Den style novel pitching
Regular readers will have noticed that there has been a sizable gap in the weekly mothering blogs. I can’t really apologise as the reasons are mostly exciting professional ones but I can promise a piece on the topic of religious mother soon. In the meantime I thought I’d fill you in on some of the…
Frida Kahlo – Artist/Ill/Infertile Mother
Much of my pamphlet (out on Wednesday with Mother’s Milk Books) deals with mothering and pain. From the first cramps of labour, much of mothering is painful – the child’s first accident, first heartbreak, the cruel things they can say, the mistakes you inevitably make. But there are more personal reasons that pain seeps into…