My research article on ‘Reclaiming the Past: Exploring the Role of Primary Sources in Creative Writing Research’ has been published in Writing in Practice: The Journal of Creative Writing Research. The article focuses on finding and using sources in the creation of narrative nonfiction and memoir, and how these can be reconciled with authorial anxieties about remembering, reassembling, and reclaiming the past. You can read the paper here.
This May I attended the IABA 2016 Conference on Excavating Lives (IABA being the International Auto/Biography Association) at the University of Cyprus. It was a fantastic experience: writers and scholars from all over the world came to Nicosia to talk about the different ways we research, uncover, present and understand lives. As well as listening […]
Everyone knows what happiness feels like, right? But how does a writer catch those fleeting moments of joy, pleasure, and bliss in writing? That’s the question I explore in my latest research article, published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. Could it be that happiness in […]
This weekend, Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June, I’m at the Open Garden Squares Weekend . This is an annual event where 200 garden in London (many usually kept secret or private) are opened up for exploration. This year the Poetry School has placed 16 poets in selected gardens. I’m the poet-in-residence at Bunhill Fields, […]
The Feather Dress
The latest of my #5MinuteStories is available now in the latest edition of the Fairy Tale Review. It’s called The Feather Dress, and it’s based on an old Chinese tale about a man’s strange obsession and a woman’s transformation. It’s a strange story of heartbreak, hope, and whether our hopes might grow wings. You can […]