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Hand me the sledgehammer
Hello dear readers, I hope you’re well. It’s been nearly a week since launching the Publish Everything Challenge, my big self-kick-to-the-backside to reconnect with writing, and I stumbled a bit with the process today, so I thought I would pop on here for a bit of an update. Aside from the first time (for reasons… →
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Introducing the Publish Everything Challenge
So, as posted yesterday, I am renewing my commitment to writing and posting. And, despite finding the turning of every little thing into a #challenge on social media irksome, I’m calling this the Publish Everything Challenge because I really do need to push myself more on this front. Not just with doing the work itself,… →
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For The Joy
Confession time: in case you haven’t already guessed it from the lack of activity on here, I haven’t been much of a writer lately. Not just lately, actually – for a long time now, when I think back to this that I wrote in January 2022. I have scribbled a few ideas, lines, poems here… →
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And the winner is…
…not me – hehe! The results of the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2022 were announced yesterday and, alas, there were no awards for yours truly. But I’m happy anyway – it has been such a positive experience to be longlisted, and then shortlisted, and the amazing and generous Prize Plus programme of support that the… →
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Showcase Time!
Hello folks, I hope you’re well. I’m really honoured to say that When You’re Smiling, my novel, has been nominated for the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2022. The prize is for unpublished fiction by UK-based Black and Asian women. The aim of the prize, in the words of the organisers, “is to act as a… →
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