Stories, Books, and Words

Tipi Field Lockdown Story   Read by Sarah Mooney. Guitar by Stevie P. Biography Sarah’s trade is oral storytelling and she has been at it for twenty years. As storyteller in residence for the Roald Dahl Foundation she lived in the garden at Gypsy House, making up stories and re-telling them in schools and theatres. Sarah has also been a [read more…]

A few weeks into lockdown, I wrote an article on my blog called ‘Is it ok to not be writing?’ It felt like every other writer out there had taken lockdown as a creative opportunity. I was bombarded with social media statuses: ‘another thousand words down,’ ‘novel finished.’ Was I the only one who was struggling to put pen to [read more…]

Big Book Weekend – A Review   So, there I was, sat rather awkwardly on the sofa in my sister’s family home, where I had taken refuge from my solo abode before lockdown kicked in, waiting for the online book festival – The Big Book Weekend. And why awkwardly? Well, how is one to know how to attend an online [read more…]