I asked Katy Wimhurst to write about her debut collection of short stories, Snapshots of the Apocalypse, published by Fly on the Wall Press. Katy‘s fiction has appeared in The Guardian, Writers’ Forum, Cafe Irreal, Magic Oxygen Literary Prize, Ouen Press, To Hull and Back, and ShooterLit. Her visual poems have been published by Ric Journal, Steel Incisors, The Babel Tower, Dreampop Press, Mercurius, Osmosis, and Streetcake Magazine. Katy is housebound with M.E. and blogs at Whimsylph. Continue reading WHY MAGIC REALISM ROCKS! →

In part two of her interview, Rachel Godfrey who writes poetry, journals and instructional books for TESOL, answers questions about inner and outer landscapes, creativity and dreams.

Leslie: Can you describe examples of what you call the ‘relationships between our inner and outer landscapes, and the stories to be found there’?

Rachel: John Donne (1624) wrote ‘no man [sic] is an island entire of itself; every man [sic] is a piece of the continent, a part of the main’. The physical landscape in which we all live and move provides metaphors for community and relationship, as Donne shows, and for our daily wellbeing. Most of us, prefer feeling grounded to spacey or at sea; we don’t like feeling we’re on shifting sands, bogged down or swamped with things to do, or that life is an uphill struggle. Continue reading RACHEL GODFREY – REFLECTIONS IN WRITING (2) →

I interviewed Rachel Godfrey who guides adults in the theraputic uses of creative writing, is the author of several books for English-language learners, and is a poet.

In part one of her interview Rachel  talks about all three strands of her writing career.

Leslie: Could you give a few examples, please, of what you call ‘writing used as reflective practice’. How do you work as a facilitator for Creative Writing for Wellbeing? Continue reading RACHEL GODFREY – REFLECTIONS IN WRITING (1) →

I interviewed Nigerian poet  Samuel A. Adeyemi, who is a poetry editor at Afro Literary Magazine and the winner of The Yellow House Library Prize for Creativity and the Teex Prize for Performance 2021. His poems have appeared in Palette Poetry, Frontier Poetry, 580 Split, Afapinen, The Maine Review, Blue Marble Review, Brittle Paper, Jalada, and elsewhere. Samuel’s collection Heaven Is A Metaphor is published by Praxis Magazine.

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