Happy New Year and I hope this blog finds you all enjoying the festive season 🙂 2017 is going to be an EPIC year 🙂 So what are my poetry plans? Well as always there are the poetry writing drives – there are four I shall be undertaking this year. Month of Poetry – which […]
SketchFest is a creative drive – I believe it runs monthly – the idea is that there is a 48 hour window in which you can take one of the offered prompts and draw. You are only allowed to draw for hour and then that it s it. Thanks to the Squiffy Gnu drive I’ve […]
Squiffy GNU was/is a brilliant online poetry writing drive fashioned after Chelt 52 where a prompt was given weekly. Run by Colin Waterman it has been an amazing source of support and inspiration. I have created a range of visual poems from the various prompts this year. Sadly the group is shutting :'( But thanks […]
Autumn dates and activities: October: Secret Singing London/Essex Sat 1st Oct. Contact me for details Fun Palace Sun 2nd Oct starts 10:30 there will be my Cuddly Science workshop which will contain puppets, poetry, craft and science 🙂 and Then there is a poetry and story slot later in the afternoon where I will also […]
Each year I have three standard Poem a Day challenges, these are Month of Poetry in January, World Poetry Writing Month in February which I run and National Poetry Writing Month in April. This writing challenges really help me focus and write down all the stuff that buzzes around my head. I then spend the […]
Obviously I have only just launched A Stranger Dream: Love a non-linear visual poem as a colouring book but… well people have been asking about other books – now I have a long list of other potentials but thought I’d see what people want 🙂 Trying to decide what type of ink style colouring in […]
So regular readers of the blogs will know that I love my writing challenges and creativity drives. March was a rest or editing/typing up month. I always start the year off with a lot of poetry writing it helps clear the brain out 🙂 A kind of spring clean! Month of Poetry in January and […]
Each year in February I run a poetry writing drive called WoPoWriMo – There are tutorials and how to material on the WoPo site and a pinterest board called WoPo Inspired for those who work best from visuals. I’ll be organising meet ups in my local area and posting in the Facebook group. Good Luck.
I hit my head and recovery has been hard, I am struggling with drawing and writing. But I went to the local comic book meet up and found out about a drawing challenge Ink-tober where you draw each day. I shall attempt it. Writing I do at the moment is speech so this will be […]
I have been set a challenge via facebook but Adam Magee a fellow poet – I have to post a poem a day for 5 days and tag other poets to do the same each day. Now I’ve been suffering with concussion for the last month and writing and reading have been out but I […]