How do we get young people into literature? This is a question that, as a society, we have been asking for years and years; largely being...

All writers understand what a milestone this is! A few weeks ago, I started writing my first novel (a step-up from poetry anthologies and...

Deep emotion Have you heard the saying 'it's just the tip of the iceberg'? Well, this is the perfect saying for this concept. For every...

It may surprise you to know that I often wish I wasn't an empath; at least not as empathetic as I am. Empathy is a term that you may have...

I don't consider myself posh (there are much posh-er people than me, Jesus). Dressing up smartly makes me feel out of place (I struggle...

I am struggling to articulate my feeling of awe from today. I went to a Writing East Midlands writing conference at Derby University. It...

Prevailed Hope was translated into Ukrainian, and I haven't been keeping you updated...

I have started learning German seriously for the first time since I took it for my GCSEs.

Yesterday, I had an interview and discussion with a non-profit organisation, called The Conversation.

I started the year extremely anxious, and while this wasn't unexpected, I struggled.

There is a fine line between our emotions being useful, and them doing us a disservice (something, ironically, I write about in my...

Sorry to be a downer, but this is an intrusive thought that keeps cropping up, and it needs to be voiced. I often paralyse myself with...

I’ll have a go at this, but I'll probably never finish it, or come to the perfect conclusion. As you may have noticed, through my writing...

The badly-taken-picture above is the said wheelchair. You see, I was born with Cerebral Palsy. (Google is good for looking these things...

My age does not necessarily determine my level of ability and skill… I came across a post on LinkedIn where the said person was talking...