Sylvia Plath @ York Racecourse
Just back from The 2016 York National Book Fair which was held at the city’s racecourse. It’s the largest out of print and antiquarian book fair in the UK with…
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Newcastle Photography Festival
A friend sent me an email recently with the line “are you running out of fingers yet?!” My chum was referring to all the creative projects I’m involved in. I…
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Creative inspiration
When inspiration comes knocking…open the door! Sounds like obvious advice but how many times have you walked away from creative inspiration? I couldn’t ignore New Zealand poet Janis Freegard when…
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Mentoring & workshop info
Summer’s here but I’ve been busy putting the final touches to my autumn/winter 2016 programme of workshops and one to one creative writing mentoring sessions. It’s a bit complicated in…
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Pure Creativity
Pure Fiction, my latest creative “child” will (with any luck) start walking in front of an audience tomorrow afternoon. The afternoon will feature writers Kitty Fitzgerald, Sandy Chadwin and Jennifer…
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Pure Fiction – Pure excitement!
Here is Jennifer C Wilson revving up for our inaugural Pure Fiction event this Saturday!
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Pure Fiction next Saturday 30th Jul
One week today I’ll be hosting a brand new literary venture, Pure Fiction in Whitley Bay’s library. Pure Fiction is dedicated to fiction writers and their work. Experienced authors will…
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Chas Chandler
Twenty years ago today rock legend Chas Chandler died on North Tyneside. He was 57. He’d been a founding member of The Animals, a Newcastle band who surfed the wave…
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Finding words in Whitley
“I am approaching the end of the beginning,” said a participant in today’s Finding the Words workshop run by Jennifer C Wilson and I. What does “the end of the…
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Finding the Words
There’s still time to book onto the workshop I’m running this Saturday 16th July in Whitley Bay library Finding the Words is an all day workshop I’m running with fellow…