by AuthorSue | May 7, 2022 | Personal, poetry, Uncategorised, Writing
Mother’s Day is a holiday that means well, but it’s complicated. For me, being American but raising my children in the UK, there was always the question of which Mother’s Day we would celebrate. Do we recognize UK Mothering Sunday in March or the US Mother’s Day in...
by AuthorSue | Jun 10, 2018 | novels, poetry, reading, Uncategorised, Writing
I find myself in the weird position of having finished reading my latest book, and also being at the bottom of my ‘To Be Read’ pile. What to do? There are so many new(ish) books I could move on to, of course. But it dawned on me that maybe this is a good...
by AuthorSue | Apr 4, 2018 | Creativity, poetry, theatre, Writing
I woke this morning to an astonishing reminder of a very important anniversary for me. Facebook told me that ten years ago this evening, on April 4 2008, my poetry play, Dreams of May, opened it’s four week run at London’s Pentameters Theatre. Ten...
by AuthorSue | Dec 12, 2017 | novels, poetry, publishing, short story, Writing
Every workshop I teach leads to a discussion of The Title. 1. What is the purpose of a title? 2. Where should it come from? 3. How do you know if it’s any good? When I teach others, I can generally come up with some answers to these questions, like the...
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 | Jul 26, 2017 | Creativity, novels, poetry, Writing
The extremely creative and generous writers, Sarah Salway and Viccy Adams, spent the past year working on a project they call Spreadsheets and Moxie. Their aim was to consider what professionalism looks like for Creative Arts practitioners, with a particular focus on...
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