performance

  • Writing, Workshops, Performance and Activism in the Time of Covid

    I’m finding that blogs come rarely in the age of the pandemic. Like half the country, I caught Covid again over Christmas but (thanks to the vaccines, booster and probable Omicron variant) it was much milder than the first variant, which left me with long Covid). I hope that none of the readers of this…

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  • All the Ps – poetry pamphlets and Poems, Prose and Pints 

    Blogging has had to move down my priority list over the last few months. I spent September and October immersed in stimulating literature festival events and delivering workshops to adults in the community as part of my role at the University of Leeds. Then I was struck with a nasty respiratory illness and laryngitis –…

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  • Franz West inspired workshop at The Hepworth Wakefield, upcoming performances and news

    July Diary of Open Workshops and Performances   Monday 7th July 6.30-8.30 Word Blend, Ilkley Young Writers perform at Ilkley’s Costa Coffee. IYW are very talented writers and performers aged between 11 and 19 who have a range of competition wins and publications between them.  Michelle Scally Clarke and I have been working with the…

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  • Looking to the Heavens in 2014

    Working Diary Highlights 2nd December 2013: B chases up replies from agents to find one agent had not received posted manuscript of Skybound.  Agent Red sends lovely email apologising and saying she would like to see it by email.  B sends revised version. 4th December 2013: Cinnamon Press awarded B a bursary for a mentor…

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