Monthly prompt — March — The month of March seems to bring me back round to my interest in the magic number three — especially in terms of life stages and religious iconography. I’m going to write my own response essay(s) separately this month, because I might (haha) get long-winded; but just in note form…

Some recommendations from my own favourite reads, with a fun ‘audience participation’ element — As you might have gathered by now, there’s nothing I like writing about more than reading! To celebrate living in a world which such a thing as a day which celebrates books even exists….let’s have a few book related questions which I will answer myself, but then any of you…

To be updated throughout the year, with links to any essays and reviews about the books on our list. ***Last added to 18/2/2023*** — To recap, I’ve drawn up our new Book Club list for 2023 . There are twelve books in said list (below), one for every month. …

A story told in several parts —

A tale of disordered eating and fifty years of body shaming — I was watching the birds in the bush out the back this morning. Admittedly, I only stopped initially because I wondered what my cats were looking at, but in the end we spent a companionable few minutes keeping still so not to startle, as several little tweeters bopped about out…

(vi) Who are you child? — If you’re new to this story series, you might want to catch up before starting in on the most recent instalment of ‘Danu: Child of the Earth Goddess’, below. To do that follow this link for the whole collection so far: Danu: Series Links A story told in several partssadieseroxcat.medium.com Here in the darkness of the midnight wood, Sarah…

Balancing the scales for women writers worldwide. — Created twenty-eight years ago in reaction to yet another all-male list for what was then still the Man-Booker Prize, The Woman’s Prize for Fiction is still going strong. This year’s longlist reads as follows: ‘Black Butterflies’ by Priscilla Morris ‘Children of Paradise’ by Camilla Grudova ‘Cursed Bread’ by Sophie Mackintosh ‘Demon Copperhead’ by…

More Book News — I Love This Time of Year!!! I love it, not because of the weather — it’s cold and sleety-snowing here right now. Weather which makes me miserable. There’s no sun most days, in fact the sky is so grey and often the view of the fells is obscured by low…

Celebrating disability narratives — The Barbellion Prize was founded in 2020 by Jake Goldsmith, himself the author of a memoir, ‘Neither Weak Nor Obtuse’, who says: “the expression of a phenomenology of illness is perhaps capable of being our most laudable and essential literature. It deserves a much greater audience”. Given the number of…