Are you a true connoisseur of the macabre? Do you crave stories that make your skin crawl and keep you up past midnight? Join me October 9, ...

Hard-learned lessons distilled from 30 years of writing

Panels for the Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival

ALT: Helping Hand Animation

Author of contemporary fiction

When Pens Around the World writes about the Writing Life we, as would naturally be assumed, lean towards the ‘writing’ part of the title. But today, I want to talk about the ‘life’ part. Since rec…

ALT: Girl Studying at Desk

The prize is back for the fourth year in a row, featuring a workshop for all participants and new judges.

Moments after stumbling across her name, I wanted to write about Enheduanna. I first encountered her while reading an article on Sargon the Great, her father and the world’s first emperor.  Then, amon...

For a coterie of dandyish readers during the Victorian Mauve Nineties, The Yellow Book provided something novel—book cover designs. When the literary quarterly released its first volume in the spri…