Category: Guest Blogs

• Guest blog: “I spent a long time thinking my writing wasn’t worth sharing” at The Writer’s Workshop

  I started the year with a guest blog for The Writer’s Workshop, reflecting on my early days fundamentally misunderstanding the purpose of a slam poetry competition, my charity work with Read Easy Sheffield and my journey to where I am today with my writing. You can read the blog, plus see this picture of me hangin’ out, over on TWW’s blog: I spent a long time thinking my writing wasn’t worth sharing — The Writers Workshop

  

• Guest Blog: A summer of submissions

  2022 was the year of putting my work out in the world. I’m a member of The Writers Workshop, a brilliant writing collective in Sheffield led by the brilliant Beverley Ward, and over the summer along with other members I committed to sending my work out into the world in a way that I never had before.

  In the end, I ended up sharing my work to over 50 different places. I’m quite proud of the success I had, and also proud of the way I learnt to handle rejections, because I have had many of those.

  Over on The Writer’s Workshop blog, I wrote about what I learnt, and what comes next for submitting my work. You can read my reflections here: 40 Days, 50 Subs, 25 New Poems — The Writers Workshop

• ‘A brad-paisley afternoon’ on The Writer’s Workshop blog

  In 2022, the Writer’s Workshop, a brilliant collective of writers and creatives in Sheffield who deliver an amazing programme of workshops and events for Sheffield writers, ran a ‘Summer of Submissions’. I should note the ‘s’ at the end of Submissions is very important to ensure the integrity of your search engine results… Anyway, the aim was to encourage people to use the summer to share their writing, putting it out for the world to see and, hopefully, enjoy.

  The Writer’s Workshop were kind enough to feature my poem ‘A brad-paisley afternoon’, inspired by their weekly writing prompt ‘that summer’, on their blog this week. You can read it here: A Brad-Paisley Afternoon — The Writers Workshop and a little snippet below.