Stars in our eyes
There was an episode of ‘Girls of the Playboy Mansion’ in which a new ingenue is welcomed into the Playboy ‘family’ with the […]
Some magazines open for submissions plus a couple of interesting finds
Here are a couple of useful blogs and resources I’ve recently come across – hope you like them too. First of all, Christine […]
Where blogging fits into the writing week
How does your writing week look? Mine can typically include things like blog posts a client email newsletter a lot of emails (sent and […]
And the winner is …?
We huddled, we looked out for friends or people we knew, we stood around holding our tiny £5 plastic glasses of wine. But […]
Workshop report – the T S Eliot Prize shortlisted collections
Tonight it’s that lovely annual poets’ jamboree, the T S Eliot Prize readings at the Royal Festival Hall. This year I thought it […]
Two exciting discoveries (new to me, anyway!)
There I was, just noodling about on the internet, when what should I find but not only a wonderful blog and poetry resource […]
The year that was, plus a T S Eliot Prize-themed workshop
So many good end-of-year review-type blog posts in the last week or so. A few I particularly enjoyed: Anthony Wilson’s ‘Most read life-saving […]
End of year thank yous, submissions news, plans
Happy Holidays (or non-denominational winter festival, etc). Wouldn’t it be great to end the year on a ‘good news’ note? You know – […]
A literary lunch, a rejection and a Robert Frost mystery
Emerging from the fug of the common cold, what should greet me but a ‘no thanks’ notification from Ambit. It seemed like an […]
Mimi Khalvati on editing and what to bin
On Saturday I dropped back in on one of the regular workshops with Mimi Khalvati run by the excellent Lewes Live Lit here […]