Nov 12, 2015 | My Stories
It’s birthday season and to celebrate I’m launching a new project: Writer Out Of Residence The writer is tired of being in residence, tired of working behind closed doors and windows, tired of typing away alone in her study accompanied only by the thumping...
Nov 10, 2015 | Belonging, Your Stories
GARETH One evening instant Just a breath Through the front door, Children. Lover. Calm. It never lasts. * * * The times I walked out the door The times he came looking for me Through the city Through millions of people To find each other. Identical brothers now...
Nov 10, 2015 | Belonging, Your Stories
MORGAN-ROSE Out in the world and inside my young body there was no room for myself. After the fights and before they split swaying on a wooden swing the cocoon of music delivered myself to me. I ran to the circus and disappeared. Liberated. ...
Nov 10, 2015 | Belonging, Your Stories
JASMINE In the slick dark damp of winter London Through the smokey pallor and beer-soiled carpet Jasmine inhales the fresh rush of ocean waves, The infinite smell of freedom and possibility and childhood.
Nov 8, 2015 | Belonging, Your Stories
on the hidden delights of being an outsider, learning to disappear, and how searching for belonging from place can lead us astray When Alison grows up she wants to be a magenta bougainvillea. I met the award-winning author and performer at a writing conference in...
