Guest Post with Eco-Writer Walkiria Bass

'...my need to write was born as a way to process trauma.' 'Find a balance between believing in your writing and humility.' ✨ Walkiria Bass (writing name Ana Maria Luisa) is a Brazilian writer based near Downham Market in West Norfolk.…

Guest Post with Writer Mike Robbins

'...humans are maybe better than we think.' '...we’re lucky to have this thriving, lively city centre.. We have a thousand years of history and it seeps out of every brick.' ✨ How long have you been writing for and what inspires…

The Gifts we Call on : Interview with Lesley Grahame

'It's good trouble, and I intend to grow up disgracefully causing more of it.' ✨ I know Lesley through environmental and activist circles in Norwich - she is one of these amazing, tireless characters who seems to be in many different…

Guest Blog with Ecologist & Writer Helen Baczkowska

'Loving this Earth and its lives is a political act right now and so writing about it cannot help but be political too.' 🌿 A huge welcome to ecologist and writer Helen Baczkowska who I've known for a couple of years through Norwich…

Solarpunk: Creating the future by imagining it

'There’s millions of people, peopling out there, every day. It’s hard not to be inspired by that.' '...you create the future by imagining it.' 'We have the requisite amount of goodness to do what needs to be done.' ✨ A big…

Guest Interview with Amanda Fox: Writer, Wonder, Activist

'Refuse to fit into the box that others have tried to make for you.' 🌿 It's hard to introduce my latest guest on the blog, Amanda Fox, as I realise that she defies description in many ways. There's something about her that helps me…

Interview with Ruth Jenkins, Spoken Word Poet & Textiles Artist

It is wonderful to welcome Ruth Jenkins onto my blog, talented spoken word poet and textiles artist. I first met Ruth a couple of years ago through activism circles. She is now part of my writing group and is rarely to be found without some…

An Interview with Poet Caroline Mellor

It is such an honour to have on the blog today talented poet Caroline Mellor. I became aware of her work through her facebook posts and I must confess, this is a first for me - to buy a book as a direct result of being drawn in by social media…

Interview with young writer Mandisa Mathew

'There is something freeing about being in a world you have complete control over.' It's wonderful to have on the blog today seventeen year old Mandisa Mathew. We knew Mandisa's family when we lived in Nairobi; Mandisa was a friend of…

Shirley Read-Jahn: Life, Writing, Illustrating, Dancing & Parkinson's Disease

Shirley Read-Jahn is an old friend or, more accurately, an old friend of my mother's who I've also come to know and love over the years. If you've read my third novel The Secret Life of Alfred Nightingale, you'll remember that my protagonist…