Wild Words

28/10/2024

“The self you leave behind is only a skin you have outgrown. Don’t grieve for it. Look to the wet, raw, unfinished self, the one you are becoming.”

In Porto, Portugal. Wandering with ‘Instructions for the Journey’ by Pat Schneider

17/07/2024

Writing in the summer woods. I try to be invisible as the writer so the words will speak for themselves. .

Are you writing this summer?

11/11/2023

The Wild Words Newsletter for November is out! Here's the opening article. I hope you're all staying cosy in your writing dens...

We unpeel those layers that have attached themselves over time, by finding word portals back to a freshness of thought and expression.

14/08/2023

There are a couple of places available, starting in September, on the year-long Mentoring Scheme. If that interests you, I'd be happy to hear from you...

Interested in joining the Wild Words mentoring scheme? 12 months of support, to get it finished, and out there.

08/06/2023

A talk, workshop and 1-1 writing surgeries at Penzance Literary Festival - beginning on 5th July.

Events coming soon

07/06/2023

Anyone else escaping their desk this summer?

Really, these summer days, I only want to be outdoors, reading transcendent poetry in awe inspiring places. So this made me happy. It’s my favourite poem of the moment. Recently, when I was mining the depths of cobwebbed shelves in a second-hand bookshop, I rediscovered the work of Sylvia Plath.

27/05/2023

The Wild Words Newsletter for May 2023 is now whizzing its merry way to you… If you’d like to sign up you can do so on the website homepage.

The opening article…

The ‘Aha!’ moment of the reader is also the instant the writer is liberated. To get there, write as if experiencing something for the first time.

27/05/2023

The next monthly online group is on Saturday 17th June. Techniques to liberate your writing. Do join us!

Inspiring quotes; technique; a prompt and writing time; sharing work in the group

21/04/2023

The Monthly Newsletter for April is landing in your inbox about now. (Sign up on the website homepage to receive it.) May our words break fresh ground this spring!

The Art of Using Humour in Writing

03/04/2023

The next online session is Saturday 13th May. How do writers and poets use words to take us beyond words?
Readings of inspiring poetry and short prose; a writing ‘experiment’ (prompt) to undertake; and time for sharing work.

In this month’s online group: writing techniques, readings of inspiring poetry and short prose, a writing ‘experiment’ (prompt) to undertake and time for sharing work.