The First Poem from the Anjali House Workshop

The First Poem from the Anjali House Workshop

Please read this wonderful poem, and the accompanying memoir, here.   The series of blogs, as seen on Mel u’s The Reading Life, highlighting the work of the students’ of Anjali House’s Writing Workshop, can be followed below: "Sally's" story “Bob’s” work Mel’s...

Sally's Story, from Anjali House

Sally's Story, from Anjali House

"Sally's" moving story and memoir can now be read here. The series of blogs, as seen on Mel u's The Reading Life, highlighting the work of the students' of Anjali House's Writing Workshop, can be followed below: "Bob's" work Mel's Introduction My Introduction

One Anjali Writer's Story Told

One Anjali Writer's Story Told

Today is the post featuring the first story and memoir of one of the Anjali House writing students. You can read all about "Bob" and his work here. The series of blogs, as seen on Mel u's The Reading Life, highlighting the work of the students' of Anjali House's...

The Reading Life and the Anjali House Workshop

The Reading Life and the Anjali House Workshop

Now here is something really special (I know, I say this a lot, but bear with me). The blogger known as The Reading Life , written by Mel u, has set aside a series of posts highlighting the work of the Anjali House Writing Workshop that I have been running for the...

The Future Is Coming

The Future Is Coming

Amazon is now showing a pre-order page  for my new novel, which will be launched and available on January 31, 2014. Something to look forward to after Christmas!   But for something a bit sooner, stay tuned to these pages for a link to a series of posts about the...

Playing Khachaturian

  I don't often post here about the Kensington Philharmonic concerts which I play in two or three times a year. I love this orchestra, and have been a member of it for over twenty years. We basically concentrate on the sort of regular repertoire you'd expect from...

Unsung Heroes, again

About 6 months ago, I wrote about a wonderful initiative taken on by three women living in Australia. They decided to create a book of text and pictures dedicated to promoting the work of some of Cambodia's most notable NGO's. They decided to include Anjali House, the...

Writers Helping the Philippines

Writers Helping the Philippines

I usually don't post three times a week, but I couldn't let another day go by without saying something about Typhoon Haiyan. But really, what is there to say? Now's not the time for talk, but rather for action. And so I'd like to point everyone towards this remarkable...

ShortStops: The Latest in the World of the Short Story

ShortStops: The Latest in the World of the Short Story

Dear all lovers/writers/readers of the short story, Welcome to this fantastic new website which I just discovered. It is adorably called ShortStops and it is all about           GETTING EXCITED ABOUT SHORT STORIES IN THE UK & IRELAND – IN PRINT, ONLINE &...

Colin Bell: Stephen Dearsley's Summer of Love

  I'm very pleased to be able to present another Great Conversation. This time, I'm chatting with a novelist/poet whose work I have very much grown to admire, and not only because he is a fellow Ward Wood writer.   Colin Bell is a very talented man with a...

Where are the Women Playwrights?

The theatre in London has been an important part of my career in the arts from the start. My first published work was the poetry play, Dreams of May. That led to the founding of the charity CurvingRoad, the production of plays both in the fringe and the West End, and...

From Contract to Shelf: The Website

From Contract to Shelf: The Website

And here we are, three months away from the publication date of Out of the Ruins and five posts into this series about the steps between writing and publishing. I've been especially looking forward to this post because this one is several months in the making. We all...

Noel Duffy: On Light & Carbon

Noel Duffy is one of my favourites. I love his prose, sure, but today I want to talk to him about his latest poetry collection, a wonderful work which I read from cover to cover without stopping. And that's something I rarely do with a poetry collection. But after...

Why London Is Still the Cultural Centre of My World

I had a wonderful ten days in the States, where I split my time between New York, Martha's Vineyard and Boston, the three focal points of my American life. I do appreciate each of those places for different reasons and in different ways, but within two days of my...

The World Series Experience, Fenway Style

James Taylor singsThe National AnthemThe Sox take the fieldThe planets were well aligned. We were due to be in Boston this week anyway, but then the Red Sox won their place in the 2013 World Series and we were determined to go to a game. It was a big deal for all of...

In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights

Now here is something I am very happy to boast about. Last night, at an event at the Bloomsbury Festival in London, a new and very unique publication was launched. In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights is an ambitious new publication, sponsored by Spread the Word,...

Artists, Scientists and Stretching Things

It seems to be festival season around here. Bankside, London, is in the midst of the Merge Festival, which is the local immersive arts festival. Its aim is to provide a series of events which showcase and draw on the rich heritage and contemporary culture of this area...

Alice Munro's Win is a Win for the Short Story

I'm thrilled to hear that Alice Munro has received the Nobel Prize for Literature. I'm even more thrilled to see that most of the rest of the world is just as thrilled as I am. So much has been said about her brilliant work that I don't need to go on about it here,...

Addiction Beaten

Many of you have probably heard this news already, but just in case....after many years, I have now given up this:for this.....Thanks to trait-tech.comAhhh....that's better......and just in time for a short weekend trip to Sofia, Bulgaria - a place I know nothing...

A Month of Blogs

I have quite a lineup of blogs set for this month. Besides those musing about whatever happens to be in my head at the time, there will be a return to my Great Conversations with the science writer, Marcus Chown, and then the Ward Wood novelist and poet, Colin Bell....

"Indian" Summer

It's been a glorious week in London. The sun has been (often) shining and the temperature has gotten well up there into seriously summer wardrobe levels.  Ahhh......I was talking about the weather with a friend, as you do, and I said, "I love this Indian summer,...

Writing about Place and the SEA Arts Fest

So often my workshops are held behind closed doors, within schools or universities or other private environments. But I'm happy to say that in October, on Sunday the 13th to be exact, between 10 am and noon, I will lead a workshop called Creating Living Places in...

Sticking Spaghetti

courtesy of marcusschaller.wordpress.comI have spent all week doing a piece of work which will probably lead to nothing. I have also spent all week wondering why I'm doing it and musing on all the many, many things I do in the name of art and career which probably...

Violence on the Streets of Cambodia

Why do I write this blog?  There are many reasons because I write for a varied audience. There's news going out to family and friends with photos and anecdotes about my ramblings. There's discussions of the ins and outs of the publishing world, the how's and how not's...

Books Are My Bag

We all love books. And yes, we all love convenience, and even if we don't love buying from online booksellers like Amazon, we all still do it, don't we? But let's face it. There's nothing quite like walking into a bookshop, having a little browse, talking to someone...

Lessons from the Street

Three months ago, I blogged here about a wonderful new publication called Unsung Heroes.  It is a "coffee table book" and more, a volume full of beautiful photographs but also important information about the people working in Cambodia to affect change. The Siem Reap...

My Summer Reading

It may sound like an unbelievably nerdy thing to do, but I have a notebook where I keep track of everything I read. I've been doing it for years. I write down the title, author, approximate date of reading, and a line or two with my initial reaction. The entries have...

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