I’m planning some webinars/workshops on creative writing for people living with and after cancer. Topics might include writing poetry, writing your memoir, getting published, blogging, self-care, exploring identity, exploring body image and more. If this interests you, it would be extremely helpful if you could fill in my survey to let me know the types…
I don’t have any photos of me in the hospital or in a gown or anything like that. I don’t have many photos at all of me during the time of my diagnoses and surgeries. However, I have dug out a few from around my first diagnosis in 2010 and my second and third in…
My memoir Gut Feelings: Coping With Cancer and Living With Lynch Syndrome is out now on Amazon! “Lynch syndrome is a genetic condition that makes it more likely for a person to get cancer. In other words, it’s the world’s worst loyalty programme.” Colon cancer, uterine cancer, duodenal cancer. Colostomy bags, infertility, genetic testing. But also,…
This has been getting some attention on Twitter – it’s a campaign to encourage people to go for cervical smears. It’s based on the statistic that 57% of women don’t want to go to their smear test because the beauty salons are closed. (I question this figure later.) And the campaign is to get people…
In light of the news this morning that clinically extremely vulnerable people will start to get their letters this week inviting them to get the covid vaccine, I wrote this little parody – to the tune of Mr Sandman, of course: Mr postman, bring me a dream (bom, bom, bom, bom)Make it an invite for…
Earlier this year I was invited to be on the WhyMe with Vera-Lee podcast, and the episode has just been released! During the episode, we talk about my three cancer diagnoses, Lynch syndrome, my PhD research and my writing. Vera-Lee and I had such a great connection, and I loved our conversation. Give it a…
I’m slightly late with it, but it’s that time of year when I get all introspective and retrospective and all the spectives, really, and think about what I achieved in the last year and what I’d like to achieve next year/this year. It’s been difficult to get into that headspace this year – even though…
standing at the back door accommodatingwinter in gusts, the clear sharp moon in my throatand my friends on a screen on my coffee tablebut I can’t hear them over the bangs and theyhave left their seats already to watch their owndisplays. I had run upstairs with Peter and countedagain, at least eight of them, like…
As is customary, here is my end-of-year rundown for 2020. I published 16 poems/prose pieces in 13 literary magazines and anthologies, as well as four articles/guest blog posts.
My Lynch syndrome memoir Gut Feelings is now available to pre-order on Kindle! If you like your books in electronic flavour, pre-order now and my guts will be spilled onto your device on the official release date of 7th February 2020! Here’s the blurb: “Lynch syndrome is a genetic condition that makes it more likely…