LOOKING BACK

It’s almost the end of the school year, and this is me coming up for air before I sink back down to hibernate in the dank, wintry earth of the next few weeks.

I feel some energy returning for more community-based work — I’ve been drifting in poems for much of the latter part of this year, boundarying my creative time around working on my poetry pamphlet, but I’m finally in a season where the writing circles and the magazine-work (where all of this first started) have begun to tendril their way around my creativity again.

For now. I am temporarily making a couple of paid-subscriber posts free (as my lazy round-up of this strange year). The two posts below sum up my family and creative experiences this year — ones that I will be also taking with me into the new year. I was thrilled and surprised that Dr Anna Johnson mentioned Motherlore during her Feminist Lecture Programme online talk, ‘Writing Motherhood’ (this can be accessed via their archive, so make sure you watch it). It encouraged me to finalise the next issue’s call for submissions (to be announced in January) — and this fifth issue will mark a turning point in style and content; it will embody much of the ideas I describe in the second post below, and visual work will be included in the call out this time too. So more on that in January, but for now do read the posts below if you haven’t already.

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