Martin on the joy of kids books
It’s especially satisfying because one of my girls was a reluctant and not-very-confident reader this time last year. Last night, and here’s the reason for my indulgent post, we had ‘a moment’.
Applications Open for the Affirm Press Mentorship Award
The aim of the Mentorship is to help writers get their manuscript to a publishable standard and, if the process is successful, for Affirm to publish the work.
An Italian Recipe for Repose
Repose. Tendrils of longing, right to the ends of my fingertips, straight to the depths of my heart. I had been craving it for years, and there it was, in a farmhouse in Italy.
Melissa Ashley on ABDA and the Superb Fairy Wren
It was my secret hope that Elizabeth Gould’s iconic lithograph of the superb fairy wren featured in the cover design for The Birdman’s Wife.
Living life as a poem: playing with ideas of poetry
People can’t live by poetry alone. But I know I couldn’t live without it.