author, editor, lapsed geographer. ADRIFT, a memoir about uncertainty, (in)fertility, and discovering the wilderness of your body, out now from @wnbooks.
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Thrilled that ADRIFT is out in paperback today. Thank you to everyone who helped it make its way into the world, & to everyone who has read it & shared it and given it life beyond the page. 💕
*you are not alone*
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So looking forward to teaching alongside Jarred on this course - do join us (from your own home!) if you’re interested in exploring writing from life…
‘Writing from Life’ is an approach to non-fiction that offers rewards for both reader and writer. Join award-winning writers @JarredMcGinnis and @MirandaWardC as they help you delve into the sensory richness of your life.
Mon 5 - Fri 9 August.
Details: arvon.org/writing-courses/co…
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I’m so excited about this - I’ll be in conversation with the brilliant @katbrown at @caperoxford on 5 June talking about No One Talks About This Stuff, a book which brings together 22 stories of almost-parenthood. If you’re in/near Oxford please join us! checkout.square.site/merchan…
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For the last 14 years as an NHS doctor, I have watched this party, these governments, savage the NHS into a crumbling shell of a once great institution. Deliberate, calculated, shameless destruction.
Only one thing to say. Please, if you still want an NHS, do not vote Tory.
I’m so excited about this - I’ll be in conversation with the brilliant @katbrown at @caperoxford on 5 June talking about No One Talks About This Stuff, a book which brings together 22 stories of almost-parenthood. If you’re in/near Oxford please join us! checkout.square.site/merchan…
Rereading @NellFrizzell’s Holding the Baby in prep for our chat at @caperoxford tomorrow evening & getting very excited. It hits just as hard but in different ways now that my son is older and I’m firmly out from behind the partial eclipse. Tix here: checkout.square.site/merchan…
Back on whatever this site is to ask: who/where is writing/publishing well on the *business* of fertility (private clinics, self-funded treatment, etc) in the UK these days? And/or any relevant research networks? Interested particularly in ethical & financial considerations.
It feels like Britain is cutting itself off from the rest of the world and strangling itself in the process. It’s sad to see, but for the individuals & families affected by these changes it’s not just sad, it’s gut-wrenching, life-altering, incomprehensible.
At no point before I obtained citizenship would I (with an MA + PhD from British universities) have met these salary requirements.
I love this practice so much - both as a writing exercise and a tangible, poetic way of capturing a moment in time/place
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What a joyful week at @arvonfoundation’s @Lumb_Bank site leading a course alongside brilliant @tanyashadrick, with a lovely midweek reading by @malachytallack. Leaving heart full & inspired ❤️
Excited that @caperoxford is now open for business (and v proud of @quitexander for hatching the plan and getting it to this point in what has been Quite A Year). Feels a bit mad opening a bookshop but also very right in a lot of ways.
This is so sad. I did my MA here. I’ve taught at Brookes on and off for years in another department. I’m so worried for the future of the humanities in this country.
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The Home Office saying it sees ‘no compassionate grounds’ to allow a 6-year-old to be reunited with her mother is really telling on itself, isn’t it. This is so grim. theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…
Overheard in the King’s Arms, Oxford:
‘The suffering is the publishing industry, the pleasure is the writing.’ Sing it!
“Just because the chancellor says you get 30 free hours – like Oprah handing out free cars – it doesn’t make it a reality. What makes it a reality is having the infrastructure and a well-trained, qualified, well-paid workforce in place.” theguardian.com/money/2023/n…
'The restrictions around birth and pregnancy care seemed unnecessarily restrictive' – can't speak for anyone else, but for me it's incredibly validating to see this stated plainly and publicly.
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Next month I’ll be tutoring an @arvonfoundation Writing Week w/ @tanyashadrick + guest @malachytallack. There are a few places left if you'd like to join us in Yorkshire for five days of writing non-fiction through the theme of water. 27 Nov–2 Dec: arvon.org/writing-courses/co…