Poetry readings from Cornwall: Cathy Galvin, Mary J.Oliver and Katrina Naomi with thanks to collaborators Hans Ruprecht and Mary for making this happen: listen here ....

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Resilience, resurgence and reinvention: the elegantly reinvented Literary Platform have dedicated the latest issue of their magazine to the creativity of small presses. Edited by Luke Thompson of the Guillemot Press, the mag will inspire anyone who feels on the margins...

Walking the Coventry Ring Road With Lady Godiva has been a long, colourful journey. I used to walk under the ring road from home into the city centre; as a teenager to catch buses to and from school, or to sneak into pubs underage or to the Locarno to watch ska and pun...

I have pulled together the UK's first festival exploring literature and citizenship which begins 13th November. It will involve ten events with incredible writers and partnerships across the country. I will be hosting international authors, looking forward particularly...

May 2017 brought good news. A work-in-progress that has filled my mind for several years has been shortlisted for the Inaugural Spread The Word Life Writing Prize in association with Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre. The announcement was made at a special event at Goldsmiths...

I was born as they were building it. As a child, I walked under it or travelled around it. As a woman, avoided it, though it's circle contains all my memories - the remains of a medieval city and within ear-shot of its traffic, the remains of my parents. It's first sec...