THE FINDINGS FACEBOOK GROUP & ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND BID

I have created a Facebook Group called #TheFindings where hundreds of people are now sharing precious personal and family artefacts and the stories behind them.  It is part of the continuing discoveries I have made about my own father and uncle, following retrieving boxes of their possessions years after their deaths.  I'm also developing The Findings into a performance piece and workshops, and am working on a bid to The Arts Council to help make it happen.  Come along and join the group, there's some fascinating and moving stories to hear!

'SURVIVAL MANTRA' RUNNER UP IN WORLD POETRY DAY COMPETITION

I was honoured to be the joint runner up of Unison's 2021 World Poetry Day competition with my poem, Survival Mantra.

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The event also included the premiere of 'Before the Flame Goes Out' a moving performance piece on the social impact of Covid 19 on public sector workers by renowned poet, Raymond Antrobus.

EXCLUSIVE READING FROM THE DOOR THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THERE

Click below to watch a short film including a three minute reading from my upcoming novella, 'The Door That Shouldn't Have Been There.' I describe the novella as 'a fairy story for grown ups.' Hope you enjoy it!

THE SOCIAL ISOLATION SONNETS

When lockdown hit in March, I, like millions of others, felt a profound sense of disorientation and anxiety.  One thing that helped me, was making the commitment to write one poem a day for the first two weeks of lockdown.  Click below to read the full collection.

**COMING SOON**

THE DOOR THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THERE

If a door that shouldn’t be there appeared in your house, would you go through it?  Should every door be opened?  Should we always follow those we love?  These are some of the questions faced by the protagonist of The Door That Shouldn’t Have Been There as we follow, through fairy story and first-person narrative; his journey through grief after the shocking death of his wife in the night.

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My fifth book will be out later this year, and it also contains beautiful illustrations by the amazing Becky Gough.  Watch this space for news!

THE FINDINGS

My dad, Paul Edwards, died a few months after my son was born in 2002. Apart from being a social worker for a lot of his working life, he was a prolific writer.  A large portion of dad’s writings, spanning fifty decades from the 1950's to the 1990's, was put into storage at a friend’s house and only returned to me last year when they had to clear their loft. Since then the boxes have been stored at my husband's studio, and then spent several months at the top of our stairs.

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I finally went through the boxes earlier this year, and I share fragments of some of the beautiful and intriguing things I found in The Findings.  See the whole series on my author Facebook page.

READING EVENTS:

I read my flash fiction 'The Box' at Bovine Cemeteries 'The Future is Now'.

Extraordinary night of dystopian visions and science fiction at Bovine Cemeteries last reading event at The Komedia.  I read my flash fiction story 'The Box' about a radical potential solution to  humanities survival of an environmental catastrophe.

RECENT JOURNALISM - WHY WE NEED TO TALK TO KIDS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

"I talk to my kids about sex and drugs, so why don't I talk to them about climate change?"

As my eldest son went off to join the climate marches I started to reflect on my feelings & fears about climate change & why I wasn't talking to my kids about it.  Click on the picture to read the full article.

READINGTO LOCAL SCHOOL KIDS AS PART OF THEIR WWII CURRICULUM.

It was such a privilege to read 'Jean's' chapter in Argemourt to the year 6 children at a local primary school.

I spent an amazing morning recently talking about what was happening in France during the violent death-throes of World War II to over 100 year six children at a local Primary school as part of their history curriculum.  I read Jean's chapter from Argemourt, which describes the terrifying morning in June 1944, when an SS Panzer division roles into his quiet French village. 

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The kids listened with rapt attention and made some insightful and sensitive observations.  A genuinely moving experience.

SHE'S COMING...

RETURN OF THE MORRIGAN AUDIOBOOK OUT NOW.

My third novel is now on Audible.

After doing such a fantastic job narrating The Soul Room, the talented, multi-voiced Jac Knight of JaCh Creatives joined me again to record Return of the Morrigan.  I am also hugely grateful to The Left Outsides who gave me permission to use their sublime track 'Time Makes a Fool of us All' for the credits. Music and narrator work perfectly in bringing my dark story with its heady mix of contemporary life and ancient Pagan myth to life.

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Storyland Press is a co-operative of Brighton based authors published by Author's Reach who come together for events, readings and to promote their strong genre-based fiction.  The idea behind Storyland is for it to be a place where the story comes first regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.

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