A Writer’s Road: A Poem for the New Year

Happy New Year everyone! A recording of my poem for the new year is just below, but first, in case you didn’t see the post I wrote on social media on December 31st, here is my toast to the year finally behind us, and the one just starting: Here’s to A jab in the...

A Writer’s Road: What I Read in 2020

What a year. I’ve documented a lot of it in this blog, but now it’s time to write an annual post which has nothing whatsoever to do with the pandemic (ostensibly), namely my list of what I read during the year. The list comes with its usual caveat that...

A Writer’s Road: Taking Risks

One of the big ideas that we discuss in Writing Through workshops is taking risks: What is a risk? Are there good and bad risks? How do you decide if a risk is good or bad and how do you choose what to do? When choosing, when do you listen to the advice of others, and...

A Writer’s Road: Hermits

photo courtesy of ancient-origins.net Earlier this week, the New York Times ran a story here about modern day hermits. It seems they live among us everywhere. The hermit lifestyle is no longer only limited to monks and ascetics living in caves, growing foot-long...

A Writer’s Road: A Howl Book Launch

There is a network of spoken word readings called Howl which brings writers, audiences and spaces together to create one-off ‘pop up’ word events. Howl Cambodia has presented a series of these happenings over the years both in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh,...
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