by AuthorSue | Aug 6, 2017 | Cambodia, Creativity, film, philanthropy, poetry, short story, teaching, Travel, Writing
As most of you know, when I am not writing novels and poetry, I am running a non-profit organisation which I founded called Writing Through. It is some of the most rewarding, exciting and creative work I have ever done, and the word is getting out about it. In...
by AuthorSue | Jun 13, 2017 | Cambodia, Creativity, novels, publishing, Writing
This has been a long time coming. Writing my fourth novel has taught me that no experience is completely repeatable, and although I have long understood that every novelist has her/his own process, my own process is a fluid one, too. Ever since my last novel, Out of...
by AuthorSue | Apr 23, 2017 | Cambodia, Creativity, film, Personal, philanthropy, Uncategorized
It started with Songkran, the traditional celebration of Khmer New Year. Throwing caution to the wind, we put on our “New Year Shirts” (which looked a lot like Hawaiian shirts to us), piled into a tuk tuk with the Horizons Guest House family, and set off...
by AuthorSue | Apr 10, 2017 | Cambodia, philanthropy, Travel
This week is the run up to the Khmer New Year celebrations, which begins on Friday the 14th April and goes all weekend long. The date of the holiday is always the same, or nearly so, because it is based on the solar calendar (unlike the lunar holiday of Tet), but with...
by AuthorSue | Mar 20, 2017 | Cambodia, Travel
To be honest, Siem Reap is a small town. Because it is the gateway to the Angkor Temples, it has many more than its fair share of excellent restaurants and hotels, but when you live here for a while, it can all start getting a bit repetitive. On Sundays, we like to do...
by AuthorSue | Mar 8, 2017 | Cambodia, Creativity, Gender Equity, poetry, teaching, Writing
What better way to celebrate International Women’s Day than to go out into a countryside school and write poetry with a bunch of kids? One of Writing Through’s partners, ODA, is an educational shelter for extremely disadvantaged kids in the Angkor district...
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